American Lung Association Inadvertently Reveals the Truth About Many Vaping Opponents

Anarticle published recently by the American Lung Association claims that vaping causes popcorn lung and COPD. There is no evidence to support either of these assertions. In fact, I ' m not aware of a single case of either popcorn lung or COPD that has ever been diagnosed in a vaper without a history of cigarette smoking. Even active smoking itself is not associated with popcorn lung, and cigarette smoke contains about 750 times the amount of diacetyl (the putative cause of popcorn lung) than e-cigarette aerosol. So the American Lung Association is lying about the health risks of vaping.The Rest of the StoryHowever, that ' s not what this commentary is about. This commentary is about something very interesting that the American Lung Association inadvertently revealed about the way they think about science.In the very first sentence of the article, the American Lung Association writes:" Scientists have been working hard to debunk the belief that e-cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes. "So this is how the American Lung Association thinks about science? According to them, scientists are not doing objective research to compare the health effects of vaping and smoking. Instead, they have come up with a pre-determined conclusion that vaping is more dangerous than smoking and they are frantically trying to come up with evidence to prove that conclusion. The truth, of course, is that there is no legitimate scientific debate about whether vaping is less harmful than...
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