As millions vape, e-cigarette researchers count puffs, scour Facebook

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As millions vape, e-cigarette researchers count puffs, scour Facebook

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/millions-vape-e-cigarette-researchers-count-puffs-scour-205500915--finance.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tUvirOmr2fBfPcCMNmuUoQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-07-09T205500Z_1_LYNXMPEA680ZF_RTROPTP_2_FRANCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man uses an E-cigarette in this illustration picture taken in Paris" align="left" title="A man uses an E-cigarette in this illustration picture taken in Paris" border="0" /></a>By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - (Story has been refiled to correct the extent of FDA e-cigarette research in paragraph 2) One team of researchers assessing the risks of electronic cigarettes is counting the puffs taken by volunteer &quot;vapers.&quot; Another will comb Facebook for posts on how people are tinkering with e-cigarettes to make the devices deliver extra nicotine. &quot;They want data and they want it yesterday,&quot; said Dr Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin of Yale University, who is leading four projects. To be sure, studies of e-cigarettes not funded by the FDA are also under way, and the agency can factor those results into any action it takes. The e-cigarette industry, which Wells Fargo Securities estimates will make $2 billion in global sales this year, says the FDA must wait for the results of the research before it issues any regulations, or manufacturers risk being driven out of business by unproven fears about their products.</p><br clear="all"/>

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