Source: OfficialWire
Date: 2010-02-17
Author: James Dunworth,

The anti-smoking movement\'s opposition to the electronic
cigarette is based neither on health nor on scientific grounds
but on a moralistic opposition to smoking.

That\'s the opinion of Christopher Snowdon, author of Velvet
Glove Iron Fist: A History of the Anti-Smoking Movement,
expressed in an interview with NJOY electronic cigarette
retailers E Cigarette Direct.

"[The anti-smoking movement] believes that not just a smokefree
world, maybe not even a tobacco free world but actually a
nicotine free world is within reach, within a generation. So to
accept any kind of tobacco harm reduction is in their eyes
accepting a short measure, is not ... their utopia, which is
nobody having anything to do with tobacco at all."

In the interview, opposition from these groups to the electronic
cigarettes was also linked to payments received from
pharmaceutical companies, who manufacture the almost identical
nicorette inhaler.