In 1994, I published the first professional medical
articles documenting that smokeless tobacco contained satisfying doses of
nicotine (in the Journal of the American Dental Association, here) and was vastly safer than smoking (in Nature, here), and I proposed “that smokeless tobacco be
recommended as a cigarette substitute by persons who cannot stop smoking.” (in
the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, here).
My scientific articles drew massive opposition. The National Cancer Institute investigated my
university, claiming that my strategy was unethical (documented in Jacob
Sullum’s excellent book, For Your Own Good, available here) as other medical groups launched vicious attacks.
One fact was beyond contradiction: Smokeless tobacco use was
at least 98% safer than smoking. While scientific
evidence for tobacco harm reduction was overwhelming, smokers were completely
uninformed about the lifesaving option of switching to a smoke-free delivery
system. This led me, in 1995, to address
smokers directly with a book, “For Smokers Only: How Smokeless Tobacco Can Save
Your Life.”
Recognizing the continuing relevance of this groundbreaking work,
publisher Rick Newcombe of Sumner Books has just released it as an e-book,
updated with a bonus chapter on e-cigarettes.
From exaggerated health scares to bogus gateway claims, opponents of
e-cigarettes are using the same tactics they’ve used against other smokeless
tobacco products for decades.
Dr. Dean Edell, physician and host of an award-winning health
radio program for 31 years (here), described For Smokers Only as “credible, logical and eminently do-able.”
The FDA Tobacco Product website offers as an example of “Health
Fraud” (here) the suggestion “that a tobacco product is safer, less harmful, contains a
reduced level or is free of a harmful substance, or presents a lower risk of
tobacco-related disease compared to other tobacco products…To date, no tobacco
products have met the requirements that would permit them (sic) to make claims
of reduced risk or harm to users and nonusers of their regulated tobacco
products.”
Applying that absurd definition, I have been conducting
health fraud for 20 years.
1 comment:
I fully condone and support Dr. Rodu and his research. This is a method of saving millions of lives by having smokers switch from a hazardous delivery system to much safer smokeless tobacco and vapor, which are beneficial, even necessary, to change smokers' habits and patterns, and completely separate from the nicotine addiction problem. SMOKERS, heed this advice - it may save your life!
Dr. Scott Sayre
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