The Doctors Television show named electronic cigarettes as number nine in their Top Ten Health Trends for 2009 giving them a particularly positive review in an all new episode on Wednesday last week.
This is a fantastic endorsement of the potential health merits of the devices. The next exciting thing I spotted was all the doctors on the TV show gave the electronic cigarettes and an electrical cigar a try. They each took many drags, with the exception of Dr Lisa Masterson who completely was faking taking a drag hardly letting her lips touch the electrical cigar.
Skeptics of the potential health benefits should also take note. Not one of the Doctors on The Doctors Television show are smokers but they did try the devices, while I find that many folks I talk to ( not health experts by any means ) are frightened to even try taking a drag off one of the cartridges that contains 0 nicotine. If the doctors on The Doctors Television show failed to hesitate to take some puffs then does this mean the doctors on the Television show aren’t nervous about electronic cigarettes ruining their health?
At one point the doctors did give an electronic cigarette to a veteran smoker and let her try it before filming the show and then invited her into the studio audience to give her opinion. The veteran smoker announced that, “she would definitely recommend them.” Ultimately , the last exciting thing that stuck out in The Doctors’ positive review was Dr Travis Stork informing the audience that the devices aren’t FDA licensed yet, but he was positive that this would happen soon.
Keep in mind that regular cigarettes are not FDA approved and never will be. In fact, regular cigarettes bear that all too familiar surgeon general’s warning. I am always explianing this to people whenever they suggest that electronic cigarettes need to be FDA licensed to be legally sold in the U.S.A.
The Doctors TV show did say a pair things that were either absolutely wrong or very misleading that may have you doubting their credibility. Firstly they said that the products were not available in the US, which is completely wrong as they are widely available.
The second misleading thing the Doctors TV show declared is that the starter kit would cost $150. In reality I’d say they average less then half that cost ( which would be $75 according to my calculator ). So whether you like The Doctors Television show or not doesn’t change the facts. They listed electronic cigarettes as their ninth health trend to look out for in 2009 and I’m exited to see this year shaping up quite nicely already for the e smoking community.
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