| While the debate about electric cigarettes continues, | | | | reduce secondhand smoke exposure since they do |
| more and more hospitals are allowing their use on their | | | | not produce smoke." |
| property, quietly showing what ground level doctors | | | | Prominent doctors and tobacco researchers, including |
| think about the products. | | | | Dr. Michael Siegel at the Boston University School of |
| COLLEYVILLE, Texas, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- As | | | | Public Health, Dr. Joel Nitzkin of the AAPHP Tobacco |
| special interest groups and politicians continue to make | | | | Control Task Force, and Dr. Brad Rodu, Endowed |
| weak claims against the electric cigarette, another | | | | Chair, Tobacco Harm Reduction Research University |
| hospital in Tampa, Florida made the decision last week | | | | of Louisville continue to publish the scientific benefits of |
| to allow the use of electronic cigarettes within their | | | | the e-cigarettes that counter the misleading information |
| facility. Smoking is a recreational privilege that while | | | | regarding their safety. |
| banned in most public places, can be done with the | | | | A report from the Centers for Disease Control and |
| alternative E-cigarette without offending others. This | | | | Prevention finds that one-fifth of Americans -- about |
| new invention allows the smoker to get their nicotine | | | | 46 million -- are still smoking. That number actually |
| fix just like the coffee or soda drinkers get their | | | | increased slightly from 2007 to 2008. The report |
| caffeine fix. The benefits to management comes in | | | | appears in the Nov. 13 edition of the CDC's Morbidity |
| the form of increased productivity in the workplace | | | | and Morality Weekly Report. Currently it is estimated |
| since the employees do not have to waste time | | | | that 1 in 40 smokers are now using the e-cigarette as |
| traveling to designated smoking places; they no longer | | | | an alternative and the trend is growing at a |
| smell like a smoker and their employees health is not | | | | phenomenal speed. |
| adversely affected by tobacco smoke. This translates | | | | The real opposition to E-cigarettes may be due to |
| into a big plus for the company bottom line in rough | | | | political fears from the loss of a portion of billions of |
| economic times. | | | | dollars in tax revenue that tobacco cigarettes |
| Last July, the FDA issued a warning regarding the | | | | generate which can't be justified against the |
| electric cigarette and it appears the public and medical | | | | E-cigarette. Tobacco cigarettes are heavily taxed |
| industry just aren't buying the story at a time when the | | | | under the guise of reimbursing the medical expense of |
| public distrusts the government more than at any other | | | | treating smokers. As little as 3% of the money is |
| time in history. On the heels of that announcement, | | | | actually used for that purpose while the rest is spent |
| Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) in the United | | | | on projects considered to be more vital. Since |
| Kingdom released a favorable position on E-cigarettes | | | | E-cigarettes have not been proven to cause the type |
| stating; "E-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine without the | | | | of health issues created by tobacco, they can only be |
| harmful toxins found in tobacco smoke, are likely to be | | | | taxed like any other consumer product. |
| a safer alternative to smoking. In addition, E-cigarettes | | | | |