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“In our product you have nicotine or no nicotine, PEG, and some flavoring. In cigarettes you have nicotine, PEG, and 4,000 chemicals and 43 carcinogens. I am proponent or harm reduction. People have rights and choices and should be allowed to make them.”
Other have seen these devices as being a sneaky way to get people hooked on nicotine. One of these such people is Michael Eriksen, ScD, and who is the director of the institute of public health at Atlanta’s Georgia State University and former director of CDC’s office of smoking and Health.
“I have seen no evidence that people switch from tobacco cigarettes to e-cigarettes or other smokeless tobacco products. If you look at how smokeless products are marketed, they are sold as something to use at times you can’t smoke. The implication is you will increase nicotine exposure, not reduce smoking,” stated Eriksen. |
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