Why not recommend e-cigarettes? From US CDC’s suggestion that smokers “watch birds and quit smoking” was criticized

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Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a tweet calling on smokers to help quit smoking through bird watching activities. This view immediately triggered a lot of controversy. Public opinion accused the American CDC of ignoring the role of e-cigarettes in quitting smoking and reducing harm on the one hand, and providing other “unreliable” smoking cessation suggestions for smokers on the other hand.

Figure: tweets posted on CDC # tobacco # free’s official twitter account

Anne klekamp, a scholar at the American Association for addiction medicine and the University of Rochester School of medicine, wrote that smoking has claimed 20 million lives since 1964 and now kills 480000 people a year. “These data come from the CDC’s own report. However, now the agency seriously recommends bird watching as a smoking cessation program to smokers, which is ridiculous.”

Previously, the CDC of the United States admitted on its official website that e-cigarettes contain fewer harmful chemicals than tobacco products, and recognized that e-cigarettes can be used as cigarette substitutes to help smokers quit smoking. In this incident, the CDC in the United States did not recommend the truly effective way to quit smoking and reduce harm, that is, e-cigarettes, to the public. Anne klekamp believes that this is a huge and sad mistake.

Picture: Anne klekamp

Under this tweet suggesting “bird watching and quitting smoking”, many netizens questioned it. A netizen with the account name “freedom of choice” left a message saying: “the most successful smoking cessation product in history, e-cigarette, has been proved to be a feasible harm reduction method, but you give such suggestions?” Cliff Douglas, a member of the Michigan public health agency, said: “this kind of tweet will be regarded as an insult and offence by those who fight to overcome smoking addiction.”

The smoking cessation and harm reduction effects of e-cigarettes have long been recognized by many public health institutions. In the latest report on the scientific basis of tobacco product control: the eighth report of the who research group published on the official website of who in 2021, it was clearly proposed that e-cigarettes can be regarded as an opportunity for tobacco control to finally realize a smoke-free future.

Figure: report on the scientific basis of tobacco product control issued by who: the eighth report of the who research group

In addition, the UK, in sharp contrast to the United States, has always supported e-cigarettes. According to the UK Department of public health 2021 evidence update released on the official website of the UK government, e-cigarettes have become the first choice for smokers in the UK in 2020. As the country with the best tobacco control in the world and the earliest official support for e-cigarettes as a tool to quit smoking, the UK will continue to call on the public sector to disseminate evidence of harm reduction of e-cigarettes in order to reduce public misunderstanding of e-cigarettes.

Figure: UK Department of public health 2021 evidence update

“Imagine, would the CDC recommend bird watching for alcoholics or heroin addicts? Obviously not. The key to the problem is that the agency doesn’t take the harm of tobacco seriously. They don’t seem to know what kind of health crisis smokers are experiencing.” Anne klekamp finally called on the CDC of the United States to face up to the role of e-cigarettes in quitting smoking and reducing harm, and seize this unprecedented opportunity to save the lives of more smokers. More reading: CDC novel coronavirus pneumonia: the US COVID-19: the number of COVID-19 infections is two times the amount previously believed to be CDC. The US 7 day mobile average death rate is 1533 cases, the highest in the past six months. The average life expectancy in the US CDC:2020 shortened by nearly 2 years. The US CDC: it is estimated that in the next month, more than 44 thousand people in the United States will die from the new crown pneumonia CDC: the 1/3 high school students in the United States use the electronic products of tobacco products. The most common CIC: looking at the growth space of e-cigarette industry from Yueke prospectus. People from all walks of life in the Philippines call on smokers to switch to e-cigarettes: 16 million smokers have the opportunity to stay away from tobacco hazards. Toxicology research: some harmful substances are reduced by 89%! Scientists have found new evidence to reduce the harm of e-cigarettes. New Zealand has issued the world’s most stringent smoking control order: young people are “forbidden to smoke” for life, but they can buy e-cigarettes. The ban on e-cigarettes may cause 150000 people to lose their jobs and affect sales of $8.4 billion, New England Journal of Medicine: the success rate of e-cigarettes is twice that of other methods. After screening more than 5000 Global Studies, the FDA confirmed that e-cigarettes are less harmful than cigarettes. American Journal of preventive medicine: the study found that e-cigarettes seriously affect men’s sexual function

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