Letter: Plenty of danger in e-cigarettes  By John Thomson  For
the Deseret News  Published: Wednesday, April 23 2014 2:15 p.m.
MDT  I can enthusiastically support and agree with your recent
editorial regarding e-cigarettes with the exception of your
statement "… heat liquid nicotine into a vapor that is inhaled
without creating secondhand smoke …." If there is any difference
between a vapor and smoke, it may only be the temperature of the
gas suspending the fine particulates. Both pollute the user's
environment with known adverse agents, and there is little
reason to believe that toxic "vapor" will be less deadly than
secondhand tobacco smoke, which currently is estimated to kill
greater than 50,000 individuals per year.  In fact, the FDA
issued an advisory, No. 2013-015 dated June 26, 2013, detailing
many of the toxins found in typical e-cigarette vapor and
describing e-cigarette vapor particle size as between 100 and
600 manometers, which is comparable to the particle size found
in tobacco smoke. The adviso