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It was all a scare tactic to keep smokers away from electronic cigarettes. It was a marketing strategy to retain market share for Big Tobacco. Here's how it went down. Some Portland State University scientists published a "peer-reviewed" letter in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) summarizing a study on e-cigarettes that said the vapors contain formaldehyde. In fact, "High Levels of Formaldehyde Hidden in E-Cigarettes" was the headline at NBC.com. "E-Cigarettes Not Safer Than Ordinary Cigarettes" was another headline at Tech Times, and yet another claimed e-cigs to have a HIGHER cancer risk than smoking. This sounds a lot like the recent arsenic-in-California-wines scare we all caught wind of last week. Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, deconstructed and exposed this huge HOAX with a brilliant science-based video short that is a must see: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZp49O0sUhc ) Also read the full article here: ( http://w...

"Hey man, want to meet by the fence after school and have a smoke? I got a vaporizer!" "Hey, these things are cool, they're not like cigarettes at all" -- This is typical talk at middle schools and high schools across the nation, where teens (and even preteens) think it's cool to smoke, because vaporizers are "cool" looking, so why not partake of the electronic cigarette frenzy, a.k.a. "e-cig," because they're certainly not as bad as cigarettes. Or are they? Sure, by smoking electronic cigarettes you feel as though you've actually accomplished something, by avoiding all those chemicals you hear that "Big Tobacco" puts in all commercial "cancer sticks." By smoking e-cigs, all you're smoking is some e-juice, and we all know that's less dangerous to your health than pesticide, insecticide, ammonia and formaldehyde, but what's better is that there's less nicotine. Wrong again. There...