Respectfully?

As I’ve said in responses to multiple comments on this article, I do not, and as a personal moral stance would never accept funding from tobacco companies (or pharmaceutical companies). My institution (like many other universities) has a strict policy against ANY of its researchers accepting funding from tobacco…

Your comment covered a lot of things I have already covered in my responses to a lot of other comments on this article, so I’d appreciate it if you could read those comments, as I’m working hard in advance of a deadline for that (research) work I do for my job, so I don’t have time to write a thorough, detailed…

Ummmm, no. That is simply not true, at least not consistently in the US. Both are still WIDELY used in mass marketed e-liquids (and I anticipate will be until after they are banned by law). This is WHY we need federal regulation and oversight of the vaping industry and vaping products.

You’re very welcome. We public health researchers truly care about getting ACCURATE and health-protecting information out there to the public. I’m glad I could offer some helpful information and clarification.

I am aware of that, and aware that there was a report issued by the UK government that promoted e-cigarettes as a safe(r) harm reduction approach to cigarettes. I can tell you that in the American public health tobacco control research community (which is by virtue of difference in nation size, MUCH larger than the…

Simply put, the vaping website which published that article took a biased look at/interpretation of that study’s finding. Even from their article, though, it was clear that they said that the study found that there was no increase in the larger sized particles found in cigarette smoke that the air quality monitors…

I am generally a supporter of the harm reduction approach to public health, for example giving free condoms out to prevent STD transmission and/or teen pregnancy instead of trying to reach the unrealistic goal of getting people to just not have sex.

To your point about vaping “machines” not accurately mimicking how people actually vape, that is a recognized issue in the public health research community, there are active studies ongoing to determine A. how people really vape (and how it varies across vapers and across product types), and B. how to accurately…

Frankly I’ve seen very little vaping research published in peer reviewed journals that was by anyone with any sort of funding or conflict of interest from tobacco (or vaping) related companies, probably at least in part because most respected journals wouldn’t accept that. And any research with those sorts of…

In the UK, perhaps (and yay for that, it’s long been known to cause a rare lung disease when vaporized and inhaled thanks to a mishap in a microwave popcorn factory), but it’s not banned in the US. I do hope that happens soon. It’s in a LOT of flavors available in the US and it is incredibly dangerous.

To paraphrase my response to another commenter:

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Frankly, your first paragraph is a fairly clear indication that you haven’t fully read (or understood) what’s in the report if that’s the impression with which you were left.

I did respond to people. Frankly, I’m in the midst of working (on a Saturday), and I don’t have time to lay out all of the details for the readers here, when a large team of scientists working with the U.S. Surgeon General already did a REALLY GOOD JOB of summarizing the extensive research on this topic. Commenters…

Yes, the chapter spends 24 pages summarizing the research, and then anticipating that there will be many people who choose not to take the time or energy to fully read and digest the preceding 24 pages, they include a single-page summary of the preceding 24 pages (that can’t possibly include the level of detail…

I see what you are trying to get at, but where are the scientific research studies to support this conjecture? Your ‘bet’ < scientific research evidence. Those studies that I have reviewed suggest otherwise. And you should also consider that there is more affecting a vaper’s health than “one puffing session” -…

Aaand... Fourth of all: I never claimed to be an MD or to have gone to medical school. There are many kinds of doctors; I have a PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education and have spent nearly 20 years of my career researching health behavior and health policy issues around tobacco products (and, since they hit the…

Uh, no - how did you even...?

Yes, the flavorings ARE a problem (but so are the other ingredients). They are generally chemicals that are FDA approved for INGESTION, but safe to INGEST does not mean safe to VAPORIZE AND INHALE, which often creates completely different (and dangerous) aldehydes and other chemicals and cause things like lung cell…