Health Experts e-cigarette received money from pharmaceutical companies

Two of the six experts that the recent advice of the Health Council of the electronic cigarette , also known as e - cigarette, have drawn up are paid by pharmaceutical companies that sell nicotine replacement or medication against cancer . A third expert is a former consultant of tobacco producer Philip Morris . Writes that the French -language weekly Marianne .
The SHC was on December 11 very critical for the electronic cigarette. In its advice to Health Minister  was that "there is a need for scientific research and evidence of usefulness as a smoking cessation agent."
The council gave the advice to make sales . E - cigarettes with nicotine only through pharmacies The current coverage of the e-cigarette called the council " is often confusing and incomplete ." " The Council considers some restraint exercised by the available e-cigarette in general," so it sounded more .
The Belgian edition of the French weekly Marianne now reveals that Dr . Vincent Lustygier of university Brugmann hospital worked on this advice . The man worked for the pharmaceutical companies Janssen in 2011 and Eli Lilly in 2010 and 2011 . Janssen brings Nicorette nicotine patches on the market and Eli Lilly sells drugs for lung cancer - are fifty times more profitable than the anti - according to a French tobacco expert. So , both companies have according to Marianne , no interest in spreading the e - cigarette.