CBS Early Show Talks To Doctor With Links To Pfizer About Electronic Cigarettes!
I have to say I am disappointed. The Early Show presentation on electronic cigarettes seems to have been tainted.
The facts are clear…that electronic cigarettes have not undergone any serious medical trials and are not FDA approved. Then again what does FDA approval guarantee as we see drug after drug once ‘approved’ being dragged off the shelves because they are found to be a little more deadly than the medical trials suggested. I suppose thats what you get when the industry basically approves its own products!
What upset me most about the coverage on The Early show was the insistance by the Doctor of untested nature of the electronic cigarette.
To the layman, when faced with a choice between vaporized nicotine mixed with tabacco tars (cigarette) and vaporized nicotine and water vapour (electronic cigarette), it would seem fairly clear that if you were going to choose the ‘less likely to give you cancer’ from the book then you would probably go with electric version.
I am sure the doc was being honest about his opinion. The fact that he works at the Rusk Institute in NYC should be great credentials. Until that is you find out that The Rusk Institute has Pfizer as a contributor. Pfizer of course who manufacture a smoking cessation drug!
Kinda puts our doc credentials under question. At the very least it would have been pause for thought at the Early Show’s producers meeting as to whether they could find a doc without such an obvious ‘conflict of interest’
Come on Early Show…not so sloppy next time please.
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