Not long ago, Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media Group and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, said in his latest video "What's Ahead" : "The anti-e-cigarette campaign is based on a lot of misinformation and lies.
According to Steve Forbes, e-cigarettes are the best and least harmful way for smokers to wean themselves off tobacco, and by preventing them from using e-cigarettes, those who oppose them are pushing thousands of people into an entirely avoidable abyss of premature death.
"Britain, by contrast, encourages smokers to switch to e-cigarettes," he said."We should do the same," says SteveForbes.Here's what he says in this programme:
The latest issue of Forbes.com What’s Ahead
Should e-cigarettes be banned?In fact, smokers should be encouraged to use e-cigarettes.Dear friends, I am Steve Forbes and this is looking Ahead, we are going to share with you some insights that will help you better navigate and take control of our lives ahead of the novel Coronavirus, in which medical institutions and other organizations in the United States have relentlessly opposed the use of e-cigarettes.While the opposition to e-cigarettes is no longer front-page news, it has never stopped, and it has successfully convinced countless people that e-cigarettes are as dangerous as traditional tobacco products, if not more so.
But, worryingly, the anti-smoking campaign is based on a lot of misinformation and lies.In fact, by persuading smokers not to give up their habit, these institutions have already pushed thousands of people towards premature death.And it's totally avoidable that more Americans will die from this botched anti-e-cigarette crusade than will novel Coronavirus.
Let's look at the reality. E-cigarettes don't contain tobacco. Users inhale nicotine but not the deadly substance in tobacco.Because e-cigarettes are a safe and effective alternative to cigarettes, the UK health authorities have taken the opposite tack, encouraging smokers to switch to e-cigarettes.
In recent years, especially among teenagers, anti-e-cigarette groups in the United States have noticed a surge in the number of young people using e-cigarettes, which they see as the gateway to cigarettes.Among young people, smoking rates have fallen from nearly 16 percent to less than 6 percent over the past decade.
In the past year, there has been a lot of news about lung disease caused by smoking. There have been 450 cases, five of which have died. The fact is that most of these cases are using illegal e-cigarettes, rather than products sold by informal e-cigarette manufacturers.Illegal e-cigarettes are used to inhale marijuana containing acetate, a chemical used in topical skin lotions.
Still, anti-e-cigarette groups are putting pressure on the FDA to ban manufacturers from adding flavoring to the liquid, in an effort to pave the way for a total ban.So it's no surprise that makers of nicotine patches, gum, and other smoking cessation AIDS aren't optimistic about the future of e-cigarettes.
But e-cigarettes are far less harmful than traditional cigarettes.Let's follow the example of the UK and stop these misguided anti-e-cigarette campaigns.
Post time: Nov-20-2020