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Or will e-cigs become another financial burden to them, like their cable bill, but without the programming?

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They are using e-cigs to control, not quit, smoking.

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Based on less than one in every 20 people responding to a survey they sent out, the study's authors made some very speculative statements about the promise of e-cigs.

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Or perhaps e-cigs are a new way to create life-long customers for a new cigarette brand?

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In any case, if you want to compare this study of e-cigs to the research on NRT, you would have to make that assumption.

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So being scrupulously fair, let's say we don't know enough for the public to make informed decisions about whether e-cigs help to quit smoking, and how safe they are.

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Another problem with the mad rush to promote e-cigs as "harm reduction" is the constant and, I believe, unfair bashing of NRT.

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One danger that real cigarettes pose but e-cigs don't is the threat of starting a fire.

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Another problem with this Boston University study is we don't know yet how e-cigs compare to NRT, or to taking nothing at all, which is how most people successfully quit, because those comparisons just weren't done.

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After all why is it that e-cigs come in different flavors such as chocolate, strawberry and mint?

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