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According to Dr. Michael B. Siegel, a tobacco control expert, public health researcher, and a professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, some entities which are part of the tobacco control movement are now lying to the public by exaggerating the risks of safer alternatives such as e-cigarettes.
Siegel said that careers in public health and tobacco control are meant to be based on the principle that it is wrong to lie to the public, but that in the last few years, the movement has largely abandoned truth as a central value in our campaigns against vaping.
“Driven by an almost puritanical inability to accept the fact that a person could obtain pleasure from nicotine without it killing them, we have made the demonization of vaping the solitary goal of the movement, at the direct expense of what I always believed was our primary goal: to make smoking history,” he said.