it focused very little on the growing scientific evidence as to its potential effectiveness, instead sticking to moral and financial reasons both for and against its introduction
Vareniclines long track record of efficacy and safety and its approval from FDA as a smoking cessation aid favors it as the first-line choice, but this study indicates that [e-cigarettes] are certainly an option for people who are unsuccessful with or cannot tolerate varenicline, said Nancy Rigotti, director of the Tobacco Research and Treatment Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, who was not involved in the study
The article took up the cause of the tobacco industry against the findings of the Surgeon Generals report and other studies associating cigarette smoking with ill health, and it concluded, At the moment, all we can say for sure is that the cause of cancer isnt known and that there is absolutely no proof that smoking causes human cancer. Before its publication, the article was heavily promoted in advertisements appearing in the daily press, and a couple of months after publication it got even more publicity, slightly less favorable, when a story in the Wall Street Journal disclosed that Stanley Frank had become an employee of Hill & Knowlton, the public-relations people employed by the Tobacco Institute
The key is to cut just enough to allow for a comfortable draw while preserving the structure of the cigar
