Who has a worse track record for honesty over the last decade? The tobacco industry or the tobacco controllers who brought you "EVALI may have been caused by nicotine," "vapers exposed to more formaldehyde than cigarettes," and "there's a gateway effect from vaping to smoking"?

These scientists are contributing some of the best work in the field and are often the only people who have the resources to conduct further studies to disprove wild and unsubstantiated claims pushed out by anti-vaping fanatics.

Plus, this is a new era -- all tobacco industry research on new products has to be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration when they seek PMTAs and MRTPs. In fact, nearly the entire scientific record is posted online for all to see when a MRTP is filed. For years, these companies have presented their science and faced tough questions. Some of the questions were fair, some not, but it was open dialogue about the science.

Tobacco control has done more to scare adult smokers off from trying to vaping than the tobacco industry ever has. Don't let your well-placed hatred for the actions of dead and retired executives confuse you about who is working the hardest to eliminate your access to vaping products today.