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http://www.rstreet.org/op-ed/use-e-cigarettes-moffitt-cancer-center-wants-you-to-be-forever-free/
The Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, is recruiting smokers who vape (i.e., dual users) for a clinical trial that, according to spokesman Vani Nath Simmons, aims to answer the question: “Do e-cigarettes actually help people quit smoking?”
However, the study’s design suggests a broader agenda. The NIH website ClinicalTrials.gov reveals that researchers intend to recruit dual users nationwide and then supply them with:
[A] series of booklets and pamphlets modeled after the Forever Free booklets found to be successful at producing long-term abstinence among the general population of smokers, but adapted to the special needs, circumstances, and risk factors of dual users.
The “specific aim” of the study is to produce tobacco abstinence among subjects and to “terminate their e-cigarette use as per traditional nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)”.
Researchers are using three-quarters of a million taxpayer dollars to try to convince smoker-vapers to become fully abstinent rather than merely smoke-free.
If this government-supported research was focused on gauging the effectiveness of e-cigarette use in eliminating smoking, as the researchers’ media spin would suggest, it could yield valuable data; instead, as revealed by the formal documents, it is, at heart, yet another all-out abstinence-promotion scheme that applies the disease-treat-cure model to consumer behavior. When the target outcome is nicotine and tobacco abstinence, bad results are all but guaranteed, especially when truthful information about the relative safety of e-cigarettes is withheld.
The Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, is recruiting smokers who vape (i.e., dual users) for a clinical trial that, according to spokesman Vani Nath Simmons, aims to answer the question: “Do e-cigarettes actually help people quit smoking?”
However, the study’s design suggests a broader agenda. The NIH website ClinicalTrials.gov reveals that researchers intend to recruit dual users nationwide and then supply them with:
[A] series of booklets and pamphlets modeled after the Forever Free booklets found to be successful at producing long-term abstinence among the general population of smokers, but adapted to the special needs, circumstances, and risk factors of dual users.
The “specific aim” of the study is to produce tobacco abstinence among subjects and to “terminate their e-cigarette use as per traditional nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)”.
Researchers are using three-quarters of a million taxpayer dollars to try to convince smoker-vapers to become fully abstinent rather than merely smoke-free.
If this government-supported research was focused on gauging the effectiveness of e-cigarette use in eliminating smoking, as the researchers’ media spin would suggest, it could yield valuable data; instead, as revealed by the formal documents, it is, at heart, yet another all-out abstinence-promotion scheme that applies the disease-treat-cure model to consumer behavior. When the target outcome is nicotine and tobacco abstinence, bad results are all but guaranteed, especially when truthful information about the relative safety of e-cigarettes is withheld.