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Health Canada Encourages Smokers to keep Smoking (I'm kidding... but only a little)...

Ok, so there's a new phenomena hitting the world of cigarettes called the e-cigarette.  Canadian media outlets recently did a bunch of stories on e-cigarettes asking whether or not they are safe.  Health Canada's position on all this was... Health Canada told CTV News in an email "as the safety, quality and efficacy of these products remains uncertain, Health Canada continues to advise Canadians not to use electronic cigarettes as they may pose health risks." Now, I'm a smoker and I've tried everything... the patch, the gum, Chantix/Champix, cold turkey, count smokes per day and then trying to decrease the number over time, etc. About the only thing I haven't tried has been hypnosis. And nothing worked. Some things worked enough that when my motivation was SUPER high I was able to quit for a couple weeks, but that was about all. So for someone like me (for whom other cessation methods have not worked), when Health Canada says "do not use th