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Big Tobacco, Not MRSA, Is the Real Problem With E-Cigarettes

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A new study says e-cigs might promote the growth of drug-resistant bacteria. But with the tobacco companies behind this unregulated product, we didn’t need more evidence it’s a ringer.

Kent Sepkowitz

Published May 20 2014 5:45AM EDT

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It’s early, but it sure looks as if the e-cigarette is going to turn out to be every bit as odious as its forebear, the paper and tobacco cigarette.

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Yet in a wondrous twirl of Don Draper magic, the e-cigarette has positioned

Kent Sepkowitz

Kent Sepkowitz

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