A new study — actually a “research letter” — in JAMA Internal Medicine purports to discern the
efficacy of e-cigarettes in helping smokers quit. In fact, no such attempt was
even made, but the study’s authors, the journal, and the academic home of the
authors all conspired to announce that the mission had been accomplished and
the answer was, “No — they don’t help.”
It was a phony summary of a phony study that got
most of the attention. Decide for yourself: anyone with a middle-school
knowledge of the scientific method can decide if there’s any validity to this.
The authors, from that hotbed of anti-e-cigarette mythology and hypocrisy, the
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), followed 949 smokers over the
course of one year. There were at baseline 88 “current users” of e-cigarettes,
while the rest (851) were not. After the year had passed, the rate of smoking
cessation was just about the same among the users and the non-users of e-cigarettes…..To Read More…..
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