According to the American Legacy Foundation, There's No Evidence that Smoking is More Harmful than Using Non-Tobacco Electronic Cigarettes

In 2013, even the tobacco companies have acknowledged for more than a decade that cigarette use is very hazardous to health and refrain from minimizing the risks of smoking by comparing it to clearly less hazardous activities such as using non-tobacco products.Not so for one of the leading national anti-smoking organizations: the American Legacy Foundation.In its apparent zeal to squelch the phenomenon of smokers using something that looks like a cigarette to potentially save their lives, the American Legacy Foundation is telling smokers, and the public, that there is no evidence that cigarette smoking is any more hazardous than vaping, which involves the use of a product that contains no tobacco.Even the tobacco companies themselves would not dare make such a bald claim in 2013 - that cigarettes may be no more hazardous than the use of a non-tobacco product.However, on its web site, Legacy states the following:"Electronic cigarettes are designed to give you an experience that’s like smoking but without any smoke. Since they don’t burn tobacco, they’re marketed as less harmful than regular cigarettes. But so far, there’s no evidence to prove that claim. There’s also no evidence that electronic cigarettes help you quit smoking."The Rest of the StoryThere are actually two false statements in the American Legacy Foundation's "fact" sheet about electronic cigarettes.First, Legacy is misleading the public by suggesting that there is no evidence that smoking is any m...
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