From: Vaping Post
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From: Vaping Post
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Gottlieb said that the FDA’s efforts to minimize nicotine addiction “will include an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asking critical questions related to our pursuit of regulation that would result in a targeted reduction of the nicotine levels in combustible cigarettes to eliminate or dramatically reduce their addictive value.”
From: The New York Times
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At the moment, therefore, neither the C.D.C., the Food and Drug Administration nor the United States Preventive Services Task Force has approved or recommended e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. In fact, the rise of e-cigarettes has generated contentious debate among public health officials and advocates.
But while the proportion of Americans who smoke continues to decrease — down to 15.1 percent in 2015 — the decline has stalled among older adults.
From: AEI
This article was co-authored by Guy Bentley
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Now would be a good time for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Surgeon General – two entities entrusted to give the public credible health information – to make their own corrective statements. Both agencies have committed public health malpractice by trying to scare people who can’t or won’t give up smoking while withholding or distorting data about viable alternatives.
Take the CDC. Throughout Dr. Tom Frieden’s tenure at the CDC, he maintained a drumbeat of negativity toward vaping, harping on unknowns while ignoring palpable benefits. “There are things we don’t know about [e-cigarette] toxicity,” he warned.