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viernes, 20 de septiembre de 2013

timesdispatch.com - 20 de septiembre de 2013 - EEUU

VCU gets grant to study novel tobacco products


The claim: Electronic cigarettes aren’t as bad for you as regular cigarettes.

The claim: People who use electronic cigarettes smoke fewer regular cigarettes and so have lower risk of smoking-related cancer.

Truthfully, there isn’t enough data to support either claim, said a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher who is co-leading a five-year, $18.1 million effort to develop ways to evaluate and study claims about so-called “modified risk” tobacco products. The grant funding was announced Thursday.

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