Stanton Glantz in potentially pro-ecig study shock!

[Colonelboom]

http://www.rstreet.org/2015/11/02/modeling-the-health-effects-of-expanding-e-cigarette-sales/

A modeling study by Sara Kalkhoran and Stanton A. Glantz published in the Oct. 1, 2015 edition ofJAMA Internal Medicine can reasonably be interpreted as demonstrating the possibility that promoting e-cigarette sales for smoking cessation in the United States has the potential for substantial public-health benefits

Could it be? Has he flipped? Or is this more of a ploy to save face as he clearly couldn't continue in the same vein being so anti ecigs and keep credibility when medical science is rapidly showing the opposite effects to his usual view.

Either way, it's a name I didn't expect to see co-authoring a study with even the slightest of positivity toward vaping.

 

[cheersm8]

Interesting! Thanks for posting. Certainly an unexpected turn up for the books.
But good to see that he is still "Thinking of the Children"
Ironic to see that vaping is following the same path as Opium!
Initially opium was a leisure activity, then it became "Laudanum" the cure all for everything, then it became a legitimate medicine, researched and controlled..
Following this pattern will those of us that vape outside of future legislation/control become the new 21st century addicts/pariahs?

 

[scrumpox]

Well, it's more like "think of the teenagers" ... which ain't a bad thing to say, just about impossible to stop teenagers experimenting though. Given that the gateway theory has been debunked, it's far better that they experiment with vaping than smoking.
Maybe Glantz has had his Damascus moment, but given his past I wonder if he's better placed amongst the ANTZ than as pro-vaping.

 

[strickenbiged]

Where can I get me some of that opium juice?

 

[Colonelboom]

Where can I get me some of that opium juice?

Afghanistan, probably

 

[Tubbyengineer]

Afghanistan, probably

Well that or Toxteth, which is like Afghanistan - but without the nice bits...