Are electronic cigarettes a safer alternative to combustible cigarettes, or are they a new gateway to a lifetime of nicotine addiction? In the past month, the editors of The New York Times noted the opposite conclusions from the British agency Public Health England that reported e-cigarettes can reduce the health risks of smoking by 95 percent, compared to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which showed that ninth graders who tried e-cigarettes were far more likely to then use regular combustible tobacco within a year. In a step that may help resolve this controversy, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is soon expected to pass federal e-cigarette “deeming” regul... [Read more]