E-Cigarettes: Friend or Foe for the LGBT Communities?

 As published on Huffington Post’s new LGBT Wellness blog, see original at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scout-phd/e-cigarettes-friend-or-foe_b_5024583.html Working in tobacco control sometimes elicits interesting reactions from people. Some try to hide their smoking. While I certainly appreciate not being near the smoke itself, I’ve got great empathy for smokers. In fact, since most smokers have already tried to quit, they’re muchContinue reading “E-Cigarettes: Friend or Foe for the LGBT Communities?”

SRNT Update 3: Means to and ENDS

An interesting discussion emerged from Dr. Nathan Cobb’s presentation on E-cigarettes.  First and foremost, he asked, they not be called E-cigarettes, because it implies it is from tobacco, which E-cigs don’t contain tobacco.  Rather, they are Electronic Nicotine Delivery System, or ENDS for short.  In my own home state some people are looking towards ENDSContinue reading “SRNT Update 3: Means to and ENDS”