E-Cigarettes May Be Bad For Your Health
Jump to full article: InjuryBoard.com, 2009-06-03
Author: Posted by Jane Akre
Intro: But despite their marketing as a smoking cessation device, E-cigarettes are attracting the wrong kind of attention. The American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society and American Heart Association are calling for them to be removed from the market. The groups feel kids may be attracted to the fake cigarettes and they have not been proven safe.
"Anybody who doesn't think this product without any smoke attached to it is orders of magnitude less harmful than cigarettes just has no concept of basic science," says Jack Leadbeater, president and chief executive of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Sottera Inc. said to the Wall Street Journal.
They sell the Njoy brand of electronic cigarettes. Most of the e-cigarettes are made in China.
The Food and Drug Administration is considering regulation since they deliver a drug. So far the FDA has refused shipments of 17 cases of e-cigarettes.
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