This is the sort of news and support we need…
https://www.cancer.org/healthy/stay-away-from-tobacco/e-cigarette-position-statement.html
“The ACS encourages the FDA to regulate all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to the full extent of its authority, and to determine the absolute and relative harms of each product.”
They acknowledge that e-cigs are safer than smoking cigarettes but they are also advising the FDA to turn up the heat on regulations!
The sentence I quoted in bold is what concerns me.
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At least their postion statement includes the word “combustion” in several forms multiple times.
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yeah, my jubilation was tad premature …based on my reading of the thread title, here 
then I read the article
“The ACS strongly recommends that every effort be made to prevent the initiation of e-cigarettes by youth. The use of products containing nicotine in any form among youth is unsafe and can harm brain development. Furthermore, evidence indicates that young e-cigarette users are at increased risk for both starting to smoke and becoming long-term users of combustible tobacco products”
oh! so they are also .propagating that myth that e-juice is a gateway drug, are they? Dear god,
More like “ACS lets a teeny-tiny bit of light in through the chinks” .
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Compare the attitude of Cancer Research UK:
Now that’s more like it!
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I look at it as a step in the right direction at least the part about ecigs being an aid in stopping smoking. Sadly the rest of it is the “same ole story”
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Scientific Summary: Based on currently available evidence, using current generation e-cigarettes is less harmful than smoking cigarettes, but the health effects of long-term use are not known.
Some smokers, despite firm clinician advice, will not attempt to quit smoking cigarettes and will not use FDA approved cessation mediations.
… switching to the exclusive use of e-cigarettes is preferable to continuing to smoke combustible products.
Furthermore, evidence indicates that young e-cigarette users are at increased risk for both starting to smoke and becoming long-term users of combustible tobacco products.
The ACS encourages the FDA to regulate all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to the full extent of its authority,
Good and bad it would appear…
+1 @mstokens
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