Wednesday, May 1, 2013

SaoTD: E-Cigs May Have More Risks than Benefits

In what is basically just a repackaging of the video we posted yesterday from KSDK-5 in St. Louis. USA Today has managed to take the stupidity and crank it up a notch, with their wide distribution and sensationalist headline: “electronic cigarettes may have more risks than benefits.”  In doing so, they’ve earned the award for Stupid Article of the Day.





The video starts off sanely enough, showing how e-cigarettes help people quit cigarettes, and don’t contain the toxins and carcinogens of cigarettes… but it all goes to hell from there, when they interview Michelle Bernth of the American Cancer Society.


“Right now there’s a lot of misinformation about electronic cigarettes. The first is that they’re not harmful to your health which is not true because nicotine which we know is harmful to your health.”


This isn’t your typical no-nothing politician here. This is a representative of the American Cancer Society, making the laughable claim that nicotine is harmful to your health. While it’s true that nicotine is addictive, there are no serious health risks attributed to the substance. It is, as if often cited, no more dangerous than caffeine.


But it gets worse as Bernth goes on:


“As long as you’re inhaling nicotine and other toxic chemicals into your lungs, you’re still smoking.”


Again, this is a representative of a group that claims to be concerned with public health, and cancer in particular, effectively telling people that switching to an alternative with almost none of the carcinogens and other toxins of cigarettes is the same thing as smoking. That is plainly false, deceptive, and dangerous. Essentially, the American Cancer Society is making the claim that there is no point in switching to a safer alternative, ignoring the obvious fact that doing so could literally save millions of lives. In pushing people away from e-cigarettes, they are actually promoting cancer.


That’s not just stupid; it’s dangerous. Frankly, it really makes us wonder what motivates the American Cancer Society. Plainly, it is not an interest in sparing people from the deadly disease in their name.


Electronic cigarettes may have more risks than benefits – USA Today



SaoTD: E-Cigs May Have More Risks than Benefits
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    Your mentioned video clip is very nice and informative.Electronic Cigarette is a great alternative of real cigarettes.Your post is so much impressive.

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