Massive Irony: American Heart Association is Lying to the Public in a Campaign Attacking E-Cigarette Companies for Lying

The American Heart Association has unveiled a newcampaign which uses the hashtag #QuitLying and the website quitlying.org. The campaign is directed against " Big Vape " and it attacks e-cigarette companies for lying to the public. Among the lies that the American Heart Association claims e-cigarette companies are making are:(1) that vaping is different than smoking; and(2) that e-cigarettes can help smokers to quit smoking.They claim that the lying on the part of e-cigarette companies is " leading more people to smoking " and has " landed hundreds of e-cigarette users in hospitals. "The Rest of the StoryIn a massive ironic twist, it is actually the American Heart Association that is lying, and their lies -- unlike anything that e-cigarette companies have asserted --are actually leading more people to smoking and possibly landing some vapers in hospitals.The American Heart Association ' s claim that vaping is no different than smoking is blatantly false. Vaping is fundamentally different than smoking because it involves the heating of an e-liquid that doesn ' t contain tobacco, while smoking involves the combustion of tobacco. Vaping does not produce any smoke; it produces an aerosol. Smoking produces smoke because that is the product of the combustion process.The American Heart Association ' s claim that e-cigarettes cannot help smokers to quit is also false. A recent randomized clinical trial published in the prestigiousNew England Journal of Medicine demonstrated that e-cig...
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