Fox News reviewed the Electronic Cigarette and gave it a fairly positive review! Besides the obvious fact that, you don’t want minors to use the product and you want to keep it away from the hands of infants, Fox News seemed to have only positive things to say about the E-Cigarette!

This video quickly introduces one of their medical contributors, Dr. Marc Siegel, who enthusiastically analyzes both sides of several electronic cigarette arguments.

Dr. Siegel’s overall assessment of electronic cigarettes is positive stating, “it has some possibilities” in the first of the 2 FoxNews videos. I encourage you to watch the videos yourself, but I do want to highlight and address a couple of comments made by FoxNews.

Dr. Siegel’s main concern with the product is that sales are not legally restricted to adults only and that kids will be able to purchase them especially from street vendors who are just looking to make a quick buck.

We share this concern with Dr. Siegel and in fact, the only legislation we would support right now for electronic cigarettes in the United States would be a law banning the sell of electronic cigarette to minors.

That’s right kids! You will have catch your buzz from caffeine in soda just like the rest of us did before we were 18 or couldn’t find someone to buy cigarettes for us!!

We do want to point out that most vendors we have come across will not sell the products to minors though.

He goes on to say in the FoxNews videos that there are already nicotine inhalers on the market that are prescription only and that he believes nicotine is not totally healthy according to studies that have been conducted.

We personally don’t think nicotine inhalers OR electronic cigarettes should require a prescription since the nicotine patch and gum do not require a prescription. Nicotine replacement should be easily accessible to folks of legal age.

Other notable comments from Dr. Siegel include that he agrees with the makers of the devices that they do not contain tar and other carcinogens and therefore are less of a problem than regular cigarettes

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