CDC report highlights poisoning risk from liquid nicotine in e-cigs
Brad Rodu, a professor of medicine at the University of Louisville and a smokeless-tobacco advocate, said he views the CDC report as “another example of a relentless, orchestrated campaign to demonize e-cigarettes.”
He said the CDC report does not put the poison risk into proper context.
In 2012, U.S. poison control centers reported there were 172 calls about exposure to ecigs among children under 6 years old, compared with 7,480 calls about all tobacco products, 106,582 calls about household cleaners and 156,623 calls about cosmetics and personal care products.
“Many consumer products pose potential danger, especially to young children; if put into the perspective of exposure to other common household items,” Rodu said. “Selective reporting of poison control information about e-cigarettes is trivial.”
