Thursday, May 1, 2014
Sigarette elettroniche
Ken wrote about e-cigarettes the other day, after inadvertently wandering into a vapor convention in Washington DC. We're in northern Italy now for a few weeks, and, wandering around the small town where our daughter lives, we ran across this e-cig shop. How quickly this thing is spreading, even with wildly differing views of whether or not they are safe. Someone was telling us yesterday that they are worse than cigarettes. Good subject for epidemiologists in another decade or two.
Hey, me too! I did a little skim over the literature just this week http://biochemistri.es/post/84151472401/e-cigarettes-whats-the-harm
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These things seem to be marketed with a "digital ergo healthy" vibe, bit odd when you look at the chemistry (it's not just water coming out as Ken guessed, I'd thought so too to tell the truth). They're in the headlines again today http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/29/5664422/thank-you-for-vaping-new-yorkers-protest-the-new-e-cig-ban-at-museum (libertarian vapers, a.k.a. rebels without a cause)
Have you thought of the tax angle regarding those electronic cigarettes?
ReplyDeleteInfluential celebrity anti-vaxxer Jenny McCarthy doesn't seem to care about the risks! Here's the ad on YouTube
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