E-Cigarettes Receive Support From Consumers, Prominent Doctors Amid Controversy
While the special interest group attacks continue, e-cigarettes continue to garner support from American citizens around the country, including practicing physicians.

GAINESVILLE, FL, August 14, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The debate of the safety and efficacy of e-cigarette usage has raised arguments from proponents on both ends of the spectrum. Special interest groups, health organizations, self-proclaimed industry experts, and even consumers have joined the fray and fought for and against the e-cigarette.

Despite the onslaught of negative publicity e-cigarettes have received lately, this has not stopped consumers from testing if they really do emulate the smoking experience and if they can help them quit. It also has not stopped health professionals from encouraging the use of e-cigarettes as a safer and healthier alternative to tobacco cigarettes.

Recent studies conducted by the FDA confirmed the fears of naysayers and e-cigarette opponents when results showed the presence of a particular chemical by the name of diethylene glycol.

"What the FDA failed to mention was that the tests found diethylene glycol in only 1 of the 18 cartridges they tested, and its concentration level was 1%," says Tony Fisher, formerly a chain smoker of 19 years who started using his e-cigarette in February and hasn't smoked a tobacco cigarette since. "What's funny is, that chemical is also in tobacco..."

The concern about the safety of the nicotine found in e-cigarettes isn't in question, according to some physicians.

"So if we can figure that the nicotine in the e-cigarettes is basically a generic version of the same nicotine that is in prescription products," says Dr. Joel Nitzkin, Chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force for the American Association of Public Health Physicians. "We have every reason to believe that the hazard posed by e-cigarettes would be much lower than one percent, probably lower than one tenth of one percent of the hazard posed by regular cigarettes."

Dr. Bruce Campbell, a cancer specialist at the Medical College of Froedtert in Wisconsin, even encourages the use of e-cigarettes if it helps smokers stop smoking. "Any time we can get people to cut down on smoking," he says, "it's a good thing!"

With wild and growing support from the public, saddled with many medical and scientific professionals, the FDA and special interests may have a battle on their hands that they may not want to undertake.

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