The Myth of the Green Cigarette

Cigarettes and other Drug Plants, e.g., Poppy plant

I couldn't find any catagory to insert the following information which is very, very important: Poppy plants have flowers which require fertilization. Our scientists should be able, by selective breeding plant genotypes, to produce pollen that would change the Poppy plants yield of opium. When pollenation time comes around, this changed/mutated poppy pollen could be dusted over the poppy fields, thereby cutting back on the yield and perhaps even change the poppy plant so that it doesn't yield Opium. Just a thought and I am assuming that the Poppy plants have to be pollenated. Another approach is to kill all the bees in that area where the Poppy fields are.

If this could be done, it would be a boon for the world, besides removing the funding for the terrorist organizations. Please put this article somewhere if you don't think is appropiate for this section.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY @ Aug 12, 2009 14:35:50 PM

Sick of the ignorance

I am so tired of all these "reporters" reporting things they know nothing about and have obviously not done one bit of research on! Go GET the lab reports. ALL of the ones you can find. Ruyan has one, GreenSmoke has one, Totallywicked has one. READ them. What "wallop" of chemicals ARE you talking about? If I were these companies I would sue you all for slander. The handful of chemicals are the same exact ones in half the products on the shelves right now APPROVED by the FDA for human consumption. What are you doing!?

I hope you realize you've got the fear monger FDA fools laughing at your ignorance. They know all they have to do is say cancer and everyone runs screaming but if you just knew what you were talking about, they'd be sunk. Pay attention or quit writing.

Quit taking the word of our trusty government administrations and do your own investigation. Find out what is in your FOOD, your artificial sweeteners, your nicotrol inhalers. Lets see that list of the "wallop of chemicals." Go ahead. Post it for us all to see. Then post the quantities found in an e-cigarette and next to that, post the ingredients and quantities of the chemicals in the cigarette. Then you tell a smoker who FINALLY found a way to quit that he/she can't have them anymore and will have to go back to smoking because the smoking cessation devices are crap.

And while you're at it, pick up a copy of the Bill of Rights. When you get to the part about liberty, look that word up, too. And when you read where it says the government can't interfere with ANYTHING we do as long as it isn't harmful to others, then you get back on here and apologize for being an uninformed, anti-American "Mauron."

Karen of GA @ Aug 11, 2009 18:28:33 PM

Smoke and mirrors

If you don't rely on the FDA's Press Release and actually read the reports you can see through the smoke and past the mirrors.

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm172906.htm

Only very small amounts of the harmfull substances the media loves to mention were actually detected. The FDA admits that no conclusions can be made from the study. The only thing the E-Cigs were compared with was the Nicotrol Inhaler, NOT Real Cigarettes, Gums or Patches.

So far the chemical count between real cigarettes and E-cigarettes is about 4,000 to what? maybe 15. How can they NOT be safer than real cigarettes? With no Dead Bodies yet and if all they have found so far is in this FDA report then I will take my chances with the E-cig's.

By the way, I agree that the E-cig's are not "Totally green smoking." What if just One Forest fire fails to start this year because someone was using an E-cig and didn't carelessly toss out that smoldering cigarette butt from the window of their new Prius that has no @%*$ ash tray.

Charles Murray of AR @ Jul 30, 2009 21:38:20 PM

Needs re evaluation by FDA

Whats not discussed here is that the problem is not with the e-cigarettes themselves but rather with the liquids sold for use with e-cigarettes. If you do you're research you'll see there were suspicious chemicals found in a few of the brands of liquid sold, not all. Also many e-cigarettes smokers, (including myself) make our own liquids with non-toxic chemicals. This all needs alot of further study by the FDA.

Ace of MN @ Jul 29, 2009 15:22:22 PM

A list of harmful chemicals produced by real cigarettes

So if your going to tell us the chemicals produced by the new e-cigarettes why not put the list right next to the list of harmful chemicals produced by regular cigarettes. let us compare and decide which is worse.

Miles Juelfs of GA @ Jul 29, 2009 14:56:41 PM

The Myth of the Green Cigarette

I'm a non-smoker who makes no apologies for cigarettes, but your article is irresponsible reporting of the worst kind - leaving people afraid as well as uninformed.

There is no evidence and no believable argument that these e cigs are as harmful as the traditional kind, which produce, among other nasties, carbon monoxide, which is deadlier by far than Diethylene Glycol - which is used in a few coolants, although hardly at all, as compared with Ethylene Glycol. But then... that sort of distinction seems to be beyond your style of "journalism".

ERIC L GAY of MI @ Jul 29, 2009 11:58:56 AM