Posted on 06/02/2016 7:30:24 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Meet the strange bedfellows against vaping: drug and tobacco companies, health advocates and Democratic lawmakers. A convergence of interests among these four lies behind the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement on May 5 that e-cigarettes will be regulated as rigorously as tobacco beginning in August.
Vaping advocates say the cost of FDA approvals will bankrupt an industry that might vastly improve public health. This spring, a major study from the Royal College of Physicians, the British equivalent of the Office of the Surgeon General, found e-cigarettes to be 95 percent less harmful than cigarettes.
“The message is...... if you must smoke, smoke pot”
whoopi Goldberg talks about “vaping joints” all the time-
claims she needs to for medical reasons-(ya right - her insanity)
the vaping gives her and other users a bigger high-
I had smoked for 6 decades...had never tried to stop. I enjoyed "playing" with the e cig...but played less and less.
One day I realized I hadn't smoked in days. I have cigarettes in the freezer and never am tempted.
I smoked over a pack a day...sometimes two packs. I never tried to quit...but I don't want to go back. I don't think I could have quit if I had tried...but not trying made it one of the easiest things I never intended to do!
All because of an e-cig!
The uber message is if you must ingest pot, vape it rather than smoking it.
So there, snake eating its' own tail!
DANG! Way harsh...
My wife had smoked for over 30 years.
She’d tried everything, including Chantix. Nothing worked until a friend told me about e-cigs. I purchased one along with the nicotine attachments. She never used more than the minimum dose and within 6 weeks she had weaned herself off the nicotine and was just using a clear vapor attachment.
By 6 months, she was just carrying it with her to suppress the occasional oral fixation; eventually, even that went away. She’s been tobacco free now for over 9 years.
I strongly disapprove of the FDA’s decision.
Some information I ran into researching the two diseases for a friend. I had already seen the nicotine/Parkinson’s connection in real life.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/746713
Abstract
The risk of Parkinson’s disease is reduced by cigarette smoking, which raises some unanswered questions. Nicotine, a major component of tobacco smoke, could exert either nonreceptor-mediated biological effects or, more importantly, act on the different subtypes of nicotinic brain receptors, in particular those associated with the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway. There is now robust experimental evidence for a neuroprotective effect of nicotine upon dopaminergic neurons
https://www.georgetown.edu/news/slowing-down-of-alzheimers-may-involve-nicotine.html
January 9, 2012 – Nicotine patches may one day slow the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study Georgetown professors and other researchers will have published tomorrow in the journal Neurology.
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) was one of three academic medical centers participating in the study, which showed that six months of nicotine patch treatment resulted in patients regaining up to 46 percent of normal performance for their age on certain long-term memory tests. The placebo group worsened by 26 percent during that time.
they had this big stink over some fire incidents but you know what?...how many hundreds/thousands have been injured from smoking in bed causing fires?....how many forest fires?....how many children killed because daddy left a smoldering cig that fell onto the couch....
there could not be any other explanation except that vaping is cutting into the smoking industry and the big money wants to keep it...
Is it your claim that smoking is good for society? Run with that, it’s a winner.
I agree. No way e cigs are as bad on health as smoking.
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