How to Generate Bogus Conclusions (E-Cig Study Edition)

[jeff47]

111. Once again, the point of "smoking" is to inhale nicotine.

It doesn't matter if you actually light something on fire. The entire reason you do so is to inhale nicotine.

Interestingly enough, I've been told over and over that the immediate harm of cigarettes to people and others around them isn't the actual nicotine, but the tar and chemicals added to it. So to be clear, its just the nicotine?

Tar and other chemicals come along with the tobacco and the smoke. But the point of smoking is to inhale nicotine.

Nicotine itself is actually pretty safe. Has a slightly higher LD50 than caffeine, and has not been shown to cause lung cancer or other "smoker" diseases.

Studying QUITTERS was never their intention, as it is declared in their abstract.

And if you want to study e-cigs, you have to include users of e-cigs. There's no reason to throw out the e-cig users that are still using nicotine from the study.

The fact that they don't light tobacco on fire does not mean they are no longer inhaling nicotine. And inhaling nicotine is the point of cigarettes, electronic or otherwise.

They aren't claiming that. They are claiming that among SMOKERS, e-cigarrete usage predicts a reduction in cessation of smoking after 1 year.

Read it again. Their "quit rate" was lower for the dual-users than the traditional cigarette users.