I cannot express how much I enjoyed reading this article. It is absolutely amazing how FDA thinks about the e-cigarettes. In any case I oppose the use of something that kiss you like smoking cigarettes. I do not know much about e-cigarettes, but the author of this article states that smoke of the cigarette is what kills not the nicotine. Therefore if these e-cigarettes don’t contain smoke then I can’t oppose it. The author states that Food and Drug Administration held a press conference in which they claimed that “e-cigarettes” was loaded with harmful “toxins” and “carcinogens.” According to the article the FDA agency was implicitly saying: Stay away from these newfangled, untested cigarette substitutes — better to stick with the real ones, the ones that we are more familiar with, the ones that cause over 450,000 deaths annually in the U.S.
From my understanding if smoke out of the cigarettes the reason for harmful diseases and death then why is the FDA opposing the e-cigarettes over regular cigarettes. Let’s say e-cigarettes do harm more than regular cigarettes, but even than the real question is which cigarettes harm the innocent people more the regular cigarettes or e-cigarettes. Smokers who choose for them self to smoke are on their own for getting cancer and etc diseases, but the innocent who do not smoke and still get harmful diseases because of smoke can be relived if everyone who smokes chooses e-cigarettes over regular. There would be less pollution as well for the environment. The FDA says that e-cigarettes are more addictive than regular cigarettes and they did not say if it releases more smoke than regular cigarettes. In fact the e-cigarettes does not releases any smoke what so ever; it releases vapors. On the other side the author states that the smoke is the real reason that causes death, not the nicotine which is highly addictive. Does addiction means not good? If it is then there many things that are addictive, which should be listed in FDA’s list to ban and file a case against it, for example “Love”, “Sex”, “Water” for that matter.
It is absurd how FDA suggest people to sick with regular cigarettes over the e- cigarettes. I am not sure that e- cigarettes kills or not, but in any case even if it does the e- cigarettes only would harm the people who smoke. It would not affect the environment or the spices who do not smoke. I said species to include any living organism like birds and animals, etc. so I guess I am saying if electronic cigarettes only harm those who smoke and not the innocent ones and the environment the e-cigarettes are better choice for the world. Why should we think about the people who smoke over the world, which is the bigger picture? I am not saying we shouldn’t care about the people who smoke. We should help them quite smoking if it kills them or shortens their lives, but if it comes to think about the environment and the people who do not smoke on one side and people who choose for themselves to smoke than I think it is clear to see what is right for humanity.
At the end I would like to ask my readers that if I have offended anyone, or if I said anything wrong, or if what I think is wrong please write a comment and let me know where I was wrong and if I have wrong facts.
Link to the article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/06/fda-smoke-screen-on-e-cigarettes/
