Interesting that article being in the New York Times. I’d like to see that same writer do an interview with Dr. Newhouse or one of the many other Doctors that have done research showing nicotine to be beneficial.
Nicotine by itself isn’t very addictive at all, according to Dr. Paul Newhouse, the director of Vanderbilt University’s Center for Cognitive Medicine. Nicotine seems to require assistance from other substances found in tobacco to get people hooked.
Or what about Professor Peter Hajek:
“There are currently two products competing for smokers’ custom. One, the conventional cigarette, endangers users and bystanders and recruits new customers from among non-smoking children who try it. The other, e-cigarette, is orders of magnitude safer, poses no risk to bystanders, and generates negligible rates of regular use among non-smoking children who try it.”
Or what about Dr. Konstantinos E Farsalinos ?? He has done NUMEROUS studies
on e-cigarette use: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Konstantinos_Farsalinos/publications
I’m just so sick of all the disinformation. If I can do this research and learn the truth, why can’t the FDA??
One word: Lobbyists.