Scientific Publications

This from the British Journal of General Practice:
Electronic cigarettes: fact and faction

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This from BioMed Central Public Health

Peering through the mist: systematic review of what the chemistry of contaminants in electronic cigarettes tells us about health risks
Igor Burstyn

 

No really scientific but worth sharing anyway:

E-cigarette criticisms 'alarmist' say researchers
By Nick Triggle
Health correspondent, BBC News

 

A fresh look at tobacco harm reduction: the case for the electronic cigarette
Riccardo Polosa, Brad Rodu, Pasquale Caponnetto, Marilena Maglia and Cirino Raciti

I tried to attach the full .pdf file but it's too big. It is available on the link above.

 

This makes for more good reading:

Look WHO’s talking: a closer look at the World Health Organization’s report on e-cigarettes

 

I did some Google-fu on this.

From Wikipedia

Some more light reading if you so desire:

http://www.who.int/civilsociety/documents/en/RevreportE.pdf

Since WHO is "a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that is concerned with international public health", personally I see it as a conflict of interest that they have more than twice as many NGO partnerships than they do actually member nations. Its pretty easy to imagine that the right amount of money will buy you far more influence with them than the majority of the member countries. If the U.S. is the largest government backer at $110 million, but their budget is almost $4 billion, who do you think is donating? Do you really think the medical industry, particularly Big Pharma, wants people getting all the joys of tobacco without any of the harmful effects? The tobacco industry will still need to grow the tobacco so nicotine can be extracted, not to mention they are already invested in the e-cig industry.

Smoking is a freaking gold mine for the medical industry. I'd much rather have the tobacco industry funding the WHO than the pharmaceutical industry. How many chronic diseases do you think we'd have a cure for if there wasn't so much money in just treating them?

 

If someone would have stated the above facts like 10 years ago the majority of people would have jumped right on the posters back with blaming and accusing him as conspiracy theorist. Well, in your days with social media and informatikn sources like never before the same theories are actuality facts. Vaping and it's users are a very good example on how things are dealt whit which are not 100% fiting in the concept of the rule makers. Vaping and it's potential for an open and from authoretys rather uncontrolled market are a big rocket in the way of numerous organizations claiming to eyeball only the best for humanety as well as industry's with there never ending hunger for growth and profit. Vaping is tryed to be given a bad name, restricted, baned and vapers start feeling like outlaws becaause of thinking how one could possible continue the expireance he has and likes. Now we as adults who have decided for ourselves since Vaping is less harmful than smoking tobacco to keep on vaping happily while feeling the physically difference for your body as well are al of a suden confronted with conspiracy theories on why vaping is bad for you. Tobacco smokers in our days which is in the society of healt and safety is #1 note so gentleman's like anymore as it used to be but you can buy tabacco everywere and easyer than some medicine!!!!! Well enojy the show..... which is called reality.

 

From WebMD, the fifth most costly of the top 11 medical expenses, at $68.3 Billion (per year?)

Slideshow: Most Expensive Medical Conditions

Poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking and drinking are responsible for like 9 of the 11 on the list. This is how they make their money. If my annual bonus was dependent on more people buying my medicine, I wouldn't want to cure them either. I used to work at a doctor's office when I was in college, the pharmaceutical reps were awesome, they would come and buy us food, give us free stuff, anything to keep those Rx's flowing. If all the money spent on lobbying and essentially bribing every single person involved in the medical or political profession was taken and spent on any one disease, it'd be cured in like a month. There are always cures and vaccines for the shit that will kill lots of people fast, just look at how quick they stomped on this latest ebola outbreak with all these "experimental" drugs. If they didn't they wouldn't have anyone to sell their pills to.