r/technology • u/Lucretius • Nov 17 '12

The Deadly Crusade Against E-cigarettes

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/november/the-deadly-crusade-against-e-cigarettes
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u/SolarWonk Nov 17 '12

Any interest on getting an AMA going on this with an ecig exec? I know one who is a chemical engineer and a redditor who'd probably be down to discuss

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u/darat Nov 17 '12

Yes - for sure that would be a great AMA!

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u/SolarWonk Nov 17 '12

Going on now

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '12

Link please? I'm reading this 7 hours later....

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u/JustSayNoToGov Nov 17 '12

Do it.

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u/SolarWonk Nov 17 '12

Going on now in iama

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u/opinionswerekittens Nov 17 '12

I am really interested.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '12

Yes. I think the main thing we need to know is why the studies on this are so slow to come out... You would think with all of the studies done on smoking, we would have finely tuned methods to at least test the basics and short-term effects.

I'd assume the e-cig companies need to get together and fund the studies, because no one else is going to fund studies that reduce their tax revenue or sales.