FDA Lab Analysis Puts the Heat on E-Cigarettes

"cancer-causing nitrosamines" are in bacon, beer, cosmetics, and thousands of other products.

Take everything off of the shelf, starve and then try that arguement again. It is 100% weightless considering the fact that the FDA claims it is a "contaminate", and that means not a threat. So, if it is not a threat in one product, why is it a threat in another?

The FDA is not an authority, it is an arm of our government that protects special interest. I would suggest that you see who they are teamed up with in this campaign and then follow the money trail.

The smoking cessation market generates 2.3BILLION a year for the pharma companies, and they fund these special interest.

"E-Cigarettes Will Revolutionize The Face Of Tobacco Smoking And Could Pose A Threat To the Smoking Cessation Market " Title of pharma board meeting.

The American Cancer Society; the American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association have all had experts state that there is no proof that the e-cigarette is safe and that they may attract the youth of this nation and entice them to start smoking.The facts are that they are not the “public health officials” they are reported to be. They are in fact private foundations that are not governmental in nature and the people or “experts” as they are referred to have in the past and are present operated by funding from large pharmaceutical companies. One pharmaceutical company in particular has a money trail of 99 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to these three special interest groups. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has an estimated 700 million worth of stock in Johnson and Johnson, whose products are probably found in your medicine cabinet at this very moment.

The two main points of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations were that ”

(1) the Foundation encouraged its grantees to be activists; (2) advocacy was emphasized to bring about policy change”, and in their own chilling words, they “provided financial support and, in particular, funds to help lobbying efforts which the Foundation could not support directly.” Then there is the title of this release where the e cigarette industry is looked upon as a threat to their revenues.

This is just from one special interest group and one foundation. There are over 30 groups that I know of that are funded by proxy by the pharma industry. And you call e cig retailers greedy? Surely you jest!!!

Most e cig retailers are e cig users that love the product. I am over 40 years old, and in 5 months, i dont cough, feel better, and can even RUN several flights of stairs again. I am just trying to spread the good news, and that is that there is a better alternative.

You really need to do some research before stating that e cig retailers are "Greedy" when the facts are that the opponets of e cigs are the real ones guilty of greed to the point of trying to sentence over 400k smokers to death every year when it is obvious to any second grader that they are indeed a better alternative.

Nowhere did the FDA state that the ecig had more carcinogens than regular tobacco. As a matter for fact the device they were comparing it to was the Nicotrol inhaler a SMOKING CESSATION Device, NOT a combustible tobacco cig.

When the FDA rang this fire bell in a church. It caused all sorts of folks to go off half-cocked about the dangers of this product. No one is saying this device is 100% safe. The air in my city is not 100% safe.

The question IS.. Is the ecigarette safer for smokers who have tried and failed to quit than the tobacco version or is it NOT? To not answer this question paid a disservice, not only to smokers but to loved ones subjected to their second-hand smoke and concerned about their health.

Ecig users are still waiting.