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[h=1]Study says e-cigarettes may contain carcinogens similar to regular cigarettes[/h]
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Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News August 27, 2013




Well, It's been awhile since my famioly and friends said you need to stop smoking cigarettes and try those E-CIGARETTES.

I quit smoking regular cigarettes on july 28th my cousin said if I could do it she could do it and started with these E-Cigarettes.

So a month after I start on the E-CIGARETTES some French medical study says they are bad for you?
This **** make you want to start smoking again huh?

Frankly I think this is bull****, just a way to get more money from smokers that are quitting through new regulations.

However what the Hell you pay an arm and leg for cigarettes you pay an arm and leg for quiting cigarettes.

Ladies and Gentlermen I await uyour veiws and commentseace
 

Not surprising. But the motivation to quit smoking should be your health. Smoking killed my uncle in his 40's, and it was a grusome painful, agonizing death.
 
davidtaylorjr said:
Not surprising. But the motivation to quit smoking should be your health. Smoking killed my uncle in his 40's, and it was a grusome painful, agonizing death.
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Ah smoking,, booz, drugs, texting while driving,, unsafe sex , unecessary wars all have blood on their agenda.eace
 
I wonder who paid for that study?

No, e-cigarettes are not as harmful as tobacco cigarettes due to the tar.
 
That's the whole reason I switched to cigars.
 
I would like to see this study.
 




The smokers all over the world need to keep smoking.

If they all quit and live longer it will upset a lot of pension plans/schemes.
 
joko104 said:
I wonder who paid for that study?

No, e-cigarettes are not as harmful as tobacco cigarettes due to the tar.
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Not sure who paid, but it was done by a French organization called "“60 million Consumers." here's their report.

Electronic cigarettes are "not as safe" as their manufacturers make them out to be and they are “potentially carcinogenic”, according to a report by a French consumer association which may worry France's one million e-cigarette users.
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Note that they don't say that e cigarettes are as harmful as regular cigarettes, only that they aren't really "safe."

so, how credible is "60 Million Consumers?" I have no idea.

They also are concerned with alcohol in soft drinks:

60 MILLION CONSUMERS CONFIRMS THE PRESENCE OF ALCOHOL AND SOFT DRINKS


I'm pretty sure the title should be in soft drinks, not and soft drinks. The rest of the article has some questionable grammar as well, perhaps due to the (lack of) ability of the translator.

Why "traces" of alcohol should be of any concern, I'm not sure.
 
A friend of mine switched to using a vaporiser a few months back. Apparently, there's entire forums catering to users. He's seen a few different studies that speak to the contrary. He says it's BS. The big tobacco scumbags trying to discredit the competition. I dunno.
 

If I'm not mistaken, some of the e-cigs are owned by big tobacco corporations, and they aren't cheap by any means, so I would think they are still maintaining their profit margins. IN fact, governmental bodies getting their cut of taxes are one of the reasons why cigarettes are so damn expensive to begin with. It would be interesting to know just how and where the money trail leads.
 
Other than the swollen coffers of the tobacconists, I have no idea. I didn't know the same guys produced the vaporisers. If so, my friend has it wrong. In that case, the studies in question were likely produced by the medical establishment. I know from experience that doesn't guarantee impartiality.
 
Well, on the plus side, the faster you die the less you will have to pay to support other people.
 

Tobacco companies bet on electronic cigarettes - CBS News

Looks like the feds are wanting a good piece of the e cig action as well.
 
Fisher said:
Well, on the plus side, the faster you die the less you will have to pay to support other people.
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Depending on who you're referring to, I may not mind.
 

My father quit smoking (at age 36) and said it was easy. He said you only have to give up one cigarette to quit - the next one. He is now 91 and still not smoking.
 

There are 2 or 3 brands of e-cigs that are owned by big tobacco. Blu, and Fin are two that I know.
 
Fisher said:
Well, on the plus side, the faster you die the less you will have to pay to support other people.
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yes, and the less you will take from Medicare and Social Security. Why, with any luck, you can die before age 65 and not cost the government any money at all.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
My father quit smoking (at age 36) and said it was easy. He said you only have to give up one cigarette to quit - the next one. He is now 91 and still not smoking.
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My father in law, now 92, did the same. The doc said he'd die if he didn't stop. That sounds like pretty good motivation to me.
 
wolfsgirl said:
There are 2 or 3 brands of e-cigs that are owned by big tobacco. Blu, and Fin are two that I know.
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Right. I should have considered that they'd look to recoup the loss.
 

To the bolded: not me. Never. They are a giant black hole where money goes, and then disappears, without ever having accomplished anything constructive.
 
Dittohead not! said:
yes, and the less you will take from Medicare and Social Security. Why, with any luck, you can die before age 65 and not cost the government any money at all.
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Brilliant. I agree. We should put even more chemicals in them--I am thinking ground up castor beans because we can then call it organic-e-arettes!!!!!
 
lizzie said:
To the bolded: not me. Never. They are a giant black hole where money goes, and then disappears, without ever having accomplished anything constructive.
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No enemy of my enemy?
 
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