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Notable Quotes:

From: Bill Godshall, MPH, Executive Director of Smokefree Pennsylvania

“The visible vapor emitted by electronic cigarettes is propylene glycol, which the FDA lists as Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS), which is widely used as fog in theatrical productions, and whose exposure to humans has been extensively studied.  Banning propylene glycol from workplaces (just because it reminds some anti smoking extremists of cigarette smoke) won't protect or benefit public health, but rather would harm public heatlh by encouraging some users to switch back to truly lethal cigarettes and by discouraging other smokers from switching to these far less hazardous alternatives to cigarettes”

From: Prof. Carl V. Phillips, MPP PhD, is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta School of Public Health

“I think there's absolutely no doubt that it is a safer alternative to regular cigarettes. Now safe, that's a word that implies there is absolutely no health risk from something, and that doesn't really apply to anything. But our estimate is that it is probably in the order of 99 percent less harmful than smoking…”

Read more: http://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/interviews/bios/carl-phillips.php#ixzz0s0bbK2mO

From: Adrian Payne, PhD, an independent commentator on regulatory issues relating to tobacco harm reduction

“Based on the safety profiling data on E-cigarettes that has been published so far, I think it’s reasonable to say that they are probably at least two, if not three, orders of magnitude less harmful than regular cigarettes. The key reason for this huge difference is that E-cigarettes don’t generate harmful tobacco smoke. “

http://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/interviews/adrian-payne-interview.php#ixzz0s0Q82lzP

From: Joel L. Nitzkin, MD, MPH, DPA, Chair AAPHP Tobacco Control Task Force, (AAPHP = American Association of Public Health Physicians)

“From our perspective, use of E-cigarettes should be encouraged as a substitute for conventional cigarettes for cigarette smokers who are unable or unwilling to quit, but are sincerely interested in reducing their risk of tobacco-related illness. E-cigarettes deliver the nicotine desired by inveterate smokers, with only the tiniest traces of carcinogens or other hazardous chemicals.  The nicotine used in these products contains the same trace contaminants and trace carcinogens found in the pharmaceutical nicotine-replacement products approved by FDA.”

From: Dr. Murray Laugesen, Health New Zealand

“With prescription drugs, we would agree. But nicotine is one of the safest of drugs, and is being sold as the alternative to the most dangerous consumer product – the tobacco cigarette. Low risk compared to cigarettes is the real world risk that smokers face.“

And

“The product is safe, efficacious, and possibly effective in stopping smoking. E-cigarettes have been on sale in the UK since 2007 (classed as non-medicines), and in the USA for over one year without any harm reported in the media or medical journals, or by doctors reporting adverse reactions. It is a product that potentially just might assist smokers to quit and therefore cut the 1 in 2 cumulative death rate in smokers. Further research is needed.”

http://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/interviews/murray-interview.php#ixzz0s0SQtaBX

From: Dr. Fred Jacobs - GASP - Global Advisors on Smokefree Policy

“"In July of 2009, the FDA study, which I guess was quoted (earlier), found that there were some level of carcinogens, that's not my major issue. I know that the presence of carcinogens is small."

From: Dr. David Baron, former Chief of Staff at UCLA Medical Center

says he's never seen a product--ever--that stands to save as many lives as the electronic cigarette. "If you can separate out the nicotine from the tobacco," Baron says, "then you remove the disease-causing elements of tobacco smoke."

From: Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, President, American Council on Science and Health

"Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States today. Any alternative acceptable to addicted smokers should be taken seriously. Instead of condemning the e-cigarette, the FDA should be sponsoring studies to evaluate its safety and efficacy -- leaving it on the market in the interim."

From: Dr. Michael Siegel, Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston University School of Public Health

"This is an important effort that could result in saving countless lives. I find it interesting and quite informative that while anti-smoking groups are promoting nicotine replacement therapy via pharmaceutical products - which have dismal efficacy - they are seeking a ban on nicotine replacement therapy via e-cigarettes, which appear to actually be reasonably effective."

From: David Sweanor, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa and former legal counsel for Nonsmokers Rights Association

“If we recognize that the needs of smokers can be met in a way that does not necessarily result in the untimely death of roughly half of long-term users, maybe we can move society conceptually to the point that nicotine delivery can go through the same metamorphosis as we’ve seen with auto safety, telecommunications, sanitation, pharmaceuticals, food preparation standards, alcoholic beverages and a myriad of other goods and services. The market could be transformed through a virtuous circle of increasing consumer awareness and ever-less-hazardous alternatives to cigarettes.”

From: Action on Smoking and Health, U.K.

“ASH supports a harm reduction approach to tobacco, that is, we recognise that whilst efforts to help people stop smoking should remain a priority, many people either do not wish to stop smoking or find it very hard to do so. For this group, we believe that products should be made available that deliver nicotine in a safe way, without the harmful components found in tobacco. Most of the diseases associated with smoking are caused by inhaling smoke, which contains thousands of toxic chemicals. By contrast, nicotine is relatively safe. Therefore, e-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine without the harmful toxins found in tobacco smoke, are likely to be a safer alternative to smoking. In addition, e-cigarettes reduce secondhand smoke exposure since they do not produce smoke.”