New Study Provides Strong Empirical Support for New FDA Approach to Tobacco Product Regulation

This study should put to rest any doubt within the tobacco control movement about whether vaping greatly reduces health risk compared to smoking. Numerous anti-tobacco groups and health departments have repeatedly asserted that vaping is no less hazardous than smoking, but this claim is false, and the present study adds significantly to the already substantial evidence that vaping is orders of magnitude safer than smoking. The anti-tobacco groups and health agencies that have made such statements should immediately correct them and issue retractions to alert the public to these important findings.These results add strong empirical support to the new FDA approach to tobacco products, announced one week ago by FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, which emphasizes the regulation of tobacco products and e-cigarettes based on the wide differential in their health risk. It makes no sense to lump e-cigarettes in the same basket as tobacco cigarettes, given their drastically different health risks. However, that is precisely what the FDA was doing prior to Dr. Gottlieb ' s appointment as the new commissioner. Now, the agency is taking a much more sensible and evidence-based approach.While this study does find that there are conditions under which e-cigarettes can be made to produce rather high levels of certain hazardous chemicals -- most notably aldehydes -- these conditions involve jacking up the voltage to excessive levels that typically produce dry puff conditions, something that...
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