WebMD and e-cigs

[Royal]

This is an old article, one we have all most likely read in the recent past.
I just found it on webmd.

I find it interesting that they quote only a Supplier as an advocate of the e-cig, and then go on to quote a profesional in the health field as an opponent. I wonder why they didn't at least speak to a professional who is also pro e-cig Like Dr. Michael Siegel for instance, if anything, just so the statements are with equal merit.

Device makers say they make no health claims for their products. Craig Youngblood, president of the InLife e-cigarette company, says that since regular tobacco is very bad for you, something that assuages your nicotine habit without smoke must be less bad.

"In our product you have nicotine or no nicotine, PEG, and some flavoring. In cigarettes you have nicotine, PEG, and 4,000 chemicals and 43 carcinogens," Youngblood last April told WebMD. "I am a proponent of harm reduction. People have rights and choices and should be allowed to make them."

Others see the devices as a sneaky way to get people hooked on nicotine. One is Michael Eriksen, ScD, director of the institute of public health at Atlanta's Georgia State University and former director of CDC's office of smoking and health.

"I have seen no evidence that people switch from tobacco cigarettes to e-cigarettes or other smokeless tobacco products," Eriksen recently told WebMD. "If you look at how smokeless products are marketed, they are sold as something to use at times you can't smoke. The implication is you will increase nicotine exposure, not reduce smoking."

Could it be because webmd is covered with advertisments for pharmaceuticals, including Chantix?

[chooky]

Well let me tell you, I have tried Chantix and the stuff was not a walk in the park as stated! In fact, my niece works for the pharmacutical company that produces the drug and she is always on my case because I told her I just can't take it. I had HORRIFFIC dreams and anxiety while on it. I had to get off. Used the patches too and so far the only thing that has helped me is my e cigarette!

[Royal]

And I have also heard that chantix also causes suicidal tendencies in ordinary people who are not depressed or have ever considered such a thing in the past.

Check out this thread.

Reported deaths linked to Chantix

[MsSki]

This the first time I have read this. Im very new to all this. But i like my ecig and i plan on stock pile'ing .

It is all about the money
Tara

[Rabaal]

I used chantix a few years back to quit smoking and i guess i was lucky, i suffered no side effects from it.
It worked rather well for me to quit smoking for a about 6 months but then i started car pooling to work every day for about two months with a guy who would chain smoke three or four cigs in 30 min on the way to and from work so i fell right back into smoking.
So far I'm loving the e-cig thing. Seems so much safer and healthier than traditional smoking.