E-cigarettes are a cottage industry that have already helped hundreds of thousands of people to quit cigarettes and escape their poverty inducing taxation. It may take profits from the rich, but it empowers people and improves world health.

No one should be deceived by corporate greed and propaganda.

This means that maybe a tobacco smoker who was about to quit smoking altogether will instead switch to using e-cigarettes and as a result will accelerate an early death from lung cancer – the smoker would be far far better off by just quitting smoking altogether.

And doubtless the nicotine industry will deny that the early deaths are related to the use of e-cigarettes and will instead say that the disease was contracted whilst smoking tobacco, and that the use of an e-cigarette probably extended the life of the smoker, by switching to e-cigarettes from tobacco – whereas the reality is that the e-cigarette user has not been given a full appraisal of the risks involved.

Ideally these devices should be banned, to prevent a repeat of the smoking epidemic and its health consequences of previous decades – and if they aren’t banned they should be very very tightly controlled (similar to tobacco cigarettes) and discouraged (e.g. made subject to legislation preventing their use in public).

Smoking is not an addiction, and people could stop smoking anytime they liked – if they really wanted to. Many smokers are happy to say that they are addicted because it provides an excuse for them to justify their habit.

See here for some evidence that smoking isn’t an addiction:

http://www.thesmokelesssociety.org/Nicotine-Addiction-Facts-Part-1.html

And see here for the obvious (but only when you think about it!), and potentially huge problem, with tobacco smokers switching to inhaling nicotine in the belief that it is safe – rather than just stopping altogether:

http://www.thesmokelesssociety.org/E-Cigarette-Health-Warning.html

Most smokers quit cold turkey. In the UK the number of ex-smokers now exceed the number of smokers – so that is about 17 Million people who at one time will have claimed that they were addicted and yet stopped smoking when they decided to put their mind to it!

Many smokers, who fail to quit, fail because they believe other smokers who are telling them that it is an addiction – and as a result don’t put sufficient effort into quitting – because they are expecting it to be difficult !

E-CIGARETTES SHOULD COME UNDER THE SAME LAWS ON DISPLAY< ADVERTISING AND USE AS TOBACCO CIGARETTES.

Where did you read this? A link would be helpful.

Sorry my mistake it can’t be done as its too much of a cash cow for those in power.