American Lung Association Recommends Against E-Cigarettes
 

The American Lung Association's advice to smokers is as follows:

"The American Lung Association is troubled about unproven claims that e-cigarettes can be used to help smokers quit. The FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has not approved any e-cigarette as a safe and effective method to help smokers quit. When smokers are ready to quit, they should call 1-800-QUIT-NOW or talk with their doctors about using one of the seven FDA-approved medications proven to be safe and effective in helping smokers quit."

The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary: IN MY VIEW: American Lung Association Would Rather Have Smokers Die than Switch to Electronic Cigarettes

The American Lung Association makes money from the guilt-tax collected from the big Tobacco companies since the master settlement agreement, '99 or '98.

So now, if tobacco disappeared from the world, the ALA would disappear and its rich millionaire owners would have to use food stamps.

:D

"What the ALA is basically saying is that they are complacent with people dying from a product with known risks, but cannot tolerate the unknown risks of what has been proven to be a much safer alternative."

"If a physician were to give this same advice to a patient, I would go so far as to suggest that the advice would represent malpractice. If a smoker does not believe he or she can quit using drugs, but is very excited about the prospect of using e-cigarettes to quit smoking, then no physician should discourage the patient from making such a quit attempt.

Sadly, this is exactly what the American Lung Association is doing. Their statement literally discourages smokers who believe that they can only quit with e-cigarettes from proceeding with that quit attempt. This is tantamount to advising those smokers to continue smoking rather than make the quit attempt using e-cigarettes."

Well, if it's on a blogspot.com blog then obviously.......

I know it helped me .Haven't had a cig in 2 years,now I gotta quit the damn ecigs lol

Because they don't make money on e-cigs, yet...

Smokers that think that smoking e-cigs helps them quit smoking sounds pretty far fetched to me.

Here's an idea: Just quit smoking. After a while, those flights of stairs won't look as scary. Your skin will gain back some color. Your teeth will start to lose that piss-yellow color. You will smell better, food will taste better, live longer, and you'll have a lot more money left over too.

Switch to weed instead, it's safer. :upsidedow

And then use edibles...even safer! :thumbsup

E-cigs are just changing the delivery system for nicotine.

Nicotine is the highly addictive (some studies show more so than heroin) and is the reason people continue to smoke long after they stop enjoying it and the negatives outweigh the positives.

Switching to this alternative delivery system is no different than using nicotine patches. Just a different delivery system.

Would you expect to use a nicotine patch for the rest of your life? No - most people would consider that stupid.

Cold turkey is the proven most effective way of actually stopping nicotine addition/smoking.

If I can do it then anyone can do it! Good luck to all those trying! :thumbsup

of course it helps them quit "smoking"... they quit smoking and replace it with inhaling nicotine vapor... they are still addicted to nicotine, but ecigs seem like obviously much healthier and cheaper (??) way of consuming nicotine...

... and ecig addiction is actually easier to give up, the only psychoactive substance in ecigs is nicotine... while tobacco contains nicotine, and other psychoactive substances on top of that...


"Although nicotine has been identified as the main ingredient in tobacco responsible for aspects of the tobacco dependence syndrome, not all of the psychopharmacological effects of smoking can be explained by nicotine alone. Accumulating preclinical and clinical evidence has demonstrated that smoking also leads to potent inhibition of both types (A and B) of monoamine oxidase (MAO).... We speculate that MAO inhibition by compounds found in either tobacco or tobacco smoke can potentiate nicotine's effects..."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11343627

Most e-products are mostly marketing towards recreational use to basically have their users buy as much "juice" as they can from them to make the most money.
If you actually work at it and reduce the amount of juice daily and nicotine amount to eventually 0 then it'll work. If not, it can actually be worse than cigarettes in some cases.

None of those things are a problem with e-cigs. You can walk stairs, smell, your teeth don't stain, etc. You're inhaling vapor and nicotine, which is natural and found in many things.

Vapor ≠ Smoke.

Also, nicotine is the most addictive substance on the planet. Giving up sex is easier for some people.

I know quite a few people who quit smoking from e-cigarettes and if you haven't dealt with addiction then you wouldn't know how it is for them anyways.

Nicotine does not cause cancer!

Nicotine causes circulation constriction of the arterial lumen in your arteries and that promotes arteriosclerosis, blood clot formation, high blood pressure (caused in part by the narrowing of the lumen (interior tubular diameter of the arteries)) and coronary heart disease. Nicotine users are 10 times more likely to develop PAD (peripheral artery disease) -- blood clots and poor circulation that can cause amputation ) starting in your 50s.

Nicotine will kill you but it wont give you lung cancer. So how would you prefer to hasten your life?

I haven't smoked for 4 years now I smoked cigarettes for 40 some years. It took me 2 years to get over the occasional nicotine ''jones'' and 9 months to get over the hourly urges -- it is not easy to stop an addiction. With ecigs you are just altering the intake method to satisfy your nicotine addiction and all the bad effects of nicotine consumption just continue.

So, if you want to keep smoking or vaping -- make sure you have insurance to pay for the medical treatment you may need -- it ain't cheap ...

You do realize nicotine is present in cauliflower, tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, and other foods?

Its not the nicotine thats dangerous, its the 4000 other chemicals in cigarettes, including tar, carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT. Couldnt be those things that are killing people, could it?

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I just got back for Hong Kong. People in Hong Kong laugh at Americans for using their totally unregulated vape juice. Vape Juice can be made from anything they want and long as it smells good Americans will buy it. How can people tell you something is safe when they don't even know what is in it?

Do you smoke?
Or inject nicotine vapor into your lungs?

The retailer I buy my vape juice from has all their formulas independently lab tested and certified.

But I fully support standardized regulation, monitoring and lab testing of the e-juice across the industry. I've seen several bricks-'n-mortar stores simply mixing their liquids in a back room (so to speak)...which raises some safety and quality concerns. I won't deal with these types of retailers.

Even with standardized regulation in China there is a huge product counterfeiting problem. There could be a company that makes safe products and another making a unsafe counterfeit version of the safe thing.:2 cents:

It's easy to make your own e juice.Just getting and handling the liquid nic is a issue here.you have to be very precise measuring and could easily poison

Exactly.

I've watched a few DIY youtube vids on mixing your own - it's easy. But handling the nic liquid, safety precautions and proper measuring takes attention to detail...not something I'd want a disgruntled, minimum wage, irresponsible person doing in a back room of a store.

I really believe that as much as I believe Muslims loves American people. The FDA is a joke,100% joke. You can not tell me, the FDA don't get mad money from big companies trying to push their shit to us.

Carry on now.
TOM

I take it you never smoked or if you did you never smoked enough to become a problem.
Just quit eh? I really hate people saying that stupid saying. If it was that easy to just quit then NO one in their right mind would be still smoking. What helps make it harder is it's around everywhere. You go to the store they are selling it, you just walk around or go to a park there are people smoking.

It is NOT that easy to just quit smoking. I know sitting behind a computer makes it easy to judge peoples life and to say really stupid things. :thumbsup

Companies and Gov't want to ban e-cigs because they are not making money off them - yet. But of course they SHOULD be. Where are all the Marlboro and Lucky Strike e-cigs? Big Tobacco should've jumped on this bandwagon years ago.

It's like when the music industry chose to sleep while iTunes was born - when they could've started their own such online stores. But nope. Now look at music. Big Tobacco is almost there.

And the argument that e-cigs are as bad as regular cigs and therefore should also be banned everywhere (like bars) is complete lunacy. You CANNOT get CANCER from secondhand.....VAPOR.

Colmike7 is correct: switch to weed, be happy.

So they say they can't support a MEDICAL claim which isn't scientifically proven to be true, which is absolutely normal and the rabble immediately jump to idiotic conspiracy theories?

Sounds about right for this place.