New study claims ecigs are a gateway to cocaine(!), CASAA responds

The poor mice got hooked on cocain just to
realize they had proved... well nothing actually

Every morning, well almost every morning at least, I do a quick search on Google news to check for interesting headlines about e-cigarettes and vaping. This morning this headline caught my attention:  

"E-Cigarettes Are Gateway to Substance Abuse and Addiction"

The article is about the study published by "doctors" Denise and Eric Kandel here: http://goo.gl/VlblK8. The first thing that came to my mind, before I even read the article was: "Oh... another one of these studies with a pre-written conclusion and data that doesn't support it... at all". Turns out... I was right. Here we have a bunch of mice that are fed nicotine one day and cocaine the next day and it turns out they react differently to the cocaine. And what can we conclude from this? Of course this shows that e-cigarettes will make people addicted to cocaine... *sigh*

I was going to sit down and write an article about how wrong and this is and why the data doesn't support the conclusion at all. But I was just made aware that CASAA had already done that, so I'm just going to leave you with the link to their response on Anti-THR Lies: http://goo.gl/qQFuIL
 


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