Physician Who Opposes Electronic Cigarettes Fabricates Scientific Information to Deter their Use

On a television news segment that aired last Wednesday on WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC), Dr. Adam Goldstein - director of the University of North Carolina's Tobacco Dependence Program - attacked electronic cigarettes by publicly claiming that they expose users to vapor that can be several thousand degrees when it hits the lungs.The implication, of course, is that using an electronic cigarette is extremely dangerous because the scalding hot temperature of the inhaled vapor can damage the lungs.The exact quote: "It [the vapor] can be several thousand degrees when it hits your lungs."The Rest of the StoryIf this were true, then the millions of electronic cigarette users throughout the country would be experiencing serious pulmonary effects from the continual burning of their airways. It would not be a pretty sight to see these millions of vapers breathing in vapor at a temperature of several thousand degrees.Of course, the truth is that electronic cigarette vapor is not nearly this hot. In fact, one of the advantages of an electronic cigarette is that it propylene glycol vaporizes at a much lower temperature than water, therefore allowing a much lower level of heat. While a tobacco cigarette burns at between 600 and 900 degrees Celsius, an electronic cigarette is able to produce vapor at a much lower temperature - around 40 to 65 degrees.Now, even if we convert this to the Kelvin scale, we still get a vapor temperature that is only 313 to 338 degrees.So how did this electronic cigarette...
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