FDA Tobacco Center Director to Ex-Smoking Vapers: You Don ' t Exist

According to anarticle in yesterday ' sWinston-Salem Journal, the head of the FDA ' s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) told the hundreds of thousands of ex-smokers in the U.S. who successfully quit smoking by switching to vaping that: " there is no definitive support of e-cigs playing a cessation role. "In other words, Mr. Zeller--the CTP director--is telling vapers that they don ' t exist, that their experiences never happened.This will come as news to the hundreds of thousands of vapers in the U.S. who did successfully quit smoking by switching to vaping. Survey data suggest that the actual number of ex-smokers who quit smoking by using e-cigarettes may be greater than a million, but even with the most conservative assumptions, no fewer than hundreds of thousands of ex-smokers quit thanks to vaping. But to the FDA, these people apparently do not exist. The Rest of the StoryI have alreadyexplained why the abundant " anecdotal " evidence that e-cigarettes have helped hundreds of thousands of smokers to quitdoes constitute definitive support of e-cigarettes playing a cessation role. To ignore this evidence is to ignore the experiences of vapers throughout the United States and to deny their existence.What an insult! It ' s like slapping these ex-smokers in the face and telling them that they don ' t count. Imagine if you told your doctor that you took up swimming and as a result you lost 15 pounds, and then your doctor responded, not by congratulating you, but by telling...
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