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FDA to announce rules restricting e-cigarettes and cigars

As electronic cigarettes soar in popularity, the U.S. Government Thursday is proposing historic rules to ban their sale to minors and require warning labels as well as federal approval. Ref. USAToday

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Research on e-cigarettes still cloudy

For some, e-cigarettes provide an option that might help them quit smoking. But have vapers really improved their health or have they exchanged one bad habit for another? Researchers say more years will be needed to draw conclusions. Ref. Source 3p.

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Sweeping Food and Drug Administration regulations take aim at e-cigarettes

The Food and Drug Administration's long-awaited rules that bring e-cigarettes under federal oversight. Ref. Source 8l.

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E-cigarettes: Gateway or roadblock to cigarette smoking?

New research on e-cigarettes and young people has been presented by experts. In detailed qualitative interviews with young people aged 16 to 25 across Scotland and England, the majority of participants viewed e-cigarettes as having reduced - not increased - the possibility of both themselves and other people smoking. Ref. Source 4j.

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E-cigarette use can alter hundreds of genes involved in airway immune defense

Smoking cigarettes alters dozens of genes important for immune defense in epithelial cells in the respiratory tract. These changes likely increase the risk of bacterial infections, viruses, and inflammation. Now, scientists report that e-cigarette use alters hundreds of genes, including the same ones that smoking suppress. Ref. Source 8a.

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Most adults surveyed don't know e-cigarette use deposits nicotine on indoor surfaces

Most U.S. Adults surveyed in 2015 agree that e-cigarette use should not be allowed in places where smoking is prohibited. Yet one-third of respondents allow use of the devices within their home, and fewer than half said they knew that exhaled e-cigarette vapors contain nicotine that deposits on indoor surfaces. Ref. Source 8p.

E-Cigarette - Page 2

-The majority of Ecig juices (Exceptions exist) in use contain naught but water, pure nicotine, and artificial flavoring of the same type most of us eat every day. That alone is of massive improvement compared to cigarettes, as the actual cancer causing substances are left behind. The simple fact of the matter is that nicotine alone is relatively safe, and only mildly addictive. Hell, there are studies suggesting that a precise dose can have positive effects on one's memory. (I still wouldn't touch the stuff, but I'm the prude that won't do anything in regards to drugs.)
-A larger percentage of people attempting to quit smoking via E-cigs have succeeded than by comparison to any other known method, such as nicotine gum and patches. This can likely be attributed to the familiar actions, paired with the ability to tune down the nicotine levels, all the way to zero. My own sister and brother in law are in this group. Both were heavy smokers, both quit nicotine entirely in a matter of mere months using ecigs, after having failed before without.
-The current FDA regulations appear deliberately designed to make it impossible for anyone other than the big tobbaco corporations to produce Ecig products at all. No other business in the field can even begin to pay the exorbitant fees to get their product approved.
-Said big tobacco companies are among the exceptions listed in point#1. They're putting in much of the same addictive and poisonous crap they put in their cigarettes. Appearances would indicate that while their ecigs are still not as bad as regular cigs, it is not much of a step up.

The ecig market needed regulation, but when the FDA chose to step in, they made matters much, much worse by deliberately catering to the people who could afford to bribe them rather than the people they're supposed to be protecting.

E-Cigarette Psychology Special & Health - Page 2

There was some online camera footage of a guy whose pants caught on fire because of an e-cigarette he hand in his pants pocket. Man those things are dangerous.