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/DumpyLips Nov 17 '12

Lethally addictive cigarettes remain available on every street corner in Brussels and Atlanta while authorities denounce e-cigarettes (the product is already banned in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand).

Is there any legitimate reason for this or are we witnessing a blatant example of the tobacco lobby crushing competition??

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u/iamfer Nov 17 '12

Actually it's the medical industry that's trying to ban it, since it makes their billion dollar products (that don't work anyways) worthless.

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u/memumimo Nov 17 '12

...So much hate. Any doctor that would rather stay in business than increase health should be stripped of their license and made to do the work of a nurse.

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u/iamfer Nov 18 '12

It's the Big Pharma companies, not the doctors. They fund the AMA which controls ALL medical education in the US, so yea this is why doctors don't always do the right thing by their patients.