A Hot Debate Over E-Cigarettes as a Path to Tobacco, or From It - NYTimes.com

Dr. Michael Siegel is an E-Cigaret advocate

A Hot Debate Over E-Cigarettes as a Path to Tobacco, or From It - NYTimes.com: by Sabrina Tavernese

Dr. Michael Siegel, a hard-charging public health researcher at Boston University, argues that e-cigarettes could be the beginning of the end of smoking in America. He sees them as a disruptive innovation that could make cigarettes obsolete, like the computer did to the typewriter.

But his former teacher and mentor, Stanton A. Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, is convinced that e-cigarettes may erase the hard-won progress achieved over the last half-century in reducing smoking. He predicts that the modern gadgetry will be a glittering gateway to the deadly, old-fashioned habit for children, and that adult smokers will stay hooked longer now that they can get a nicotine fix at their desks.

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