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ubergizmo.com - 7/24/2009
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Just when you thought that e-cigarettes are the way to go when it comes to kicking the smoking habit, along comes news that such ciggies do contain cancer-causing chemicals and other toxins, including a compound used in antifreeze - at least that's what U.S. health officials are going on ...
fda.gov - 7/23/2009
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fda.gov —
On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, public health experts
joined FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, M.D., and...
Matthew McKenna, M.D., Director of the Office of Smoking and Health for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discuss ...
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Electronic Cigarettes
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US Health Officials Warn Against E-Cigarette Use
OhGizmo! —
... use of nicotine, they probably won’t help anyone kick the habit. In fact, users will be likely to return to cigarettes. That’s not the biggest concern. Apparently when testing samples from e-cigarette manufacturers NJOY and Smoking Everywhere they found samples with diethylene glycol, which is used in antifreeze, as well as several different carcinogens. Long story short, these things aren’t the way to go if you want to quit smoking.
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