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> There have been no clinical trials for Juul or any e-cigarette product. Rubbish. Just 10 seconds on PubMed found me this: Rahman et al. E-cigarettes and smo
by thomasfedb 8y ago
> There have been no clinical trials for Juul or any e-cigarette product.
Rubbish. Just 10 seconds on PubMed found me this:
Rahman et al. E-cigarettes and smoking cessation: evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One. 2015. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25822251 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25822251
"Six studies were included involving 7,551 participants. … Use of e-cigarettes is associated with smoking cessation and reduction."
> No doctor following the letter of what they're supposed to be doing is going to recommend an e-cigarette product to a person seeking smoking cessation.
Also rubbish. Even if there were no studies, absence of data of effect is different from data of absence of effect. There are good reasons to believe (even pre-hoc) that vaping is safer than cigarettes.
As a student doctor and I would happily council a patient to consider vaping instead of smoking as a harm minimisation intervention.