It was supposed to be a joke a skit during the Golden Globes telecast showing actress Julia Louis Dreyfus puffing on a vaporized e cigarette. In the skit, hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler poked fun at Dreyfus, who was then shown looking very cool, in sunglasses, with e cigarette in hand.

Some members of Congress, however, are not laughing, CBS News’ Jan Crawford reports. They accuse the Golden Globes, which also showed actor Leonardo DiCaprio puffing on an e cigarette during the broadcast, of glamorizing smoking.

“You’re killing the next generation of fans in your movies,” Sen. Richard Durbin, D Ill., said on the Senate floor.

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Four senators, including Durbin, fired off angry letters to NBC, which broadcast the show, and to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gave out the awards.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D Conn., was one of them. He said e cigarettes are a gateway to smoking.
“There’s a reason that Big Tobacco companies are buying the e cigarette manufacturers, and that is they see a way to induce young people,” he said.

Jason Healy, president of the company that made the e cigarette Dreyfus was smoking, said the accusations are unsupported and not founded in fact.
“It’s like saying energy drinks are a gateway to meth,” he said.

Trade industry representatives agree. “We understand and share the senators’ concerns and are sensitive to imagery that glamorizes smoking,” Phil Daman, president of the Smoke Free Alternatives Trade Association, said in a statement, “however, vaporizing units like e cigarettes are not tobacco products.”

Blumenthal, meanwhile, remains steadfast in his opposition.
“E cigarettes are nicotine delivery devices,” he said. “They have to be viewed, just as tobacco cigarettes are, as a means of delivering a drug nicotine.”

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“The science around the safety of E cigarettes has not been demonstrated,” the World Health Organisation&#39 s Glenn Thomas told ITV&#39 s Tonight.

“We still need more research to know and understand what sort of impact on health.. these E cigarettes are having.”

“We know that a lot of the toxins which are consumed through E cigarettes have not been adequately researched,” he added.

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3 27 am, Thu 23 Jan 2014 Manufacturer Unregulated E cigarettes &#x27 vary in quality&#x27 Nicotine liquid seen in an electronic cigarette. Credit ABACA

Manufacturers of electronic cigarettes have told ITV&#39 s Tonight their industry is not regulated and there can be varying quality of products.

Long Xiaobing, CEO of an E Cig company in Shenzhen, Southern China makes ten million electronic cigarettes a year.

He told Tonight “Currently, lots of products in this market are not regulated and products vary in quality.”

Another E cigarette maker, Hua Ou, said “There is no standard available to regulate them. So the market is in a bit of chaos now. Currently many E cigarettes are made quite similar, with low quality. These are very serious problems.”

Both manufacturers insist their own products are good quality, yet they are well placed to make judgements on the wider market.

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3 20 am, Thu 23 Jan 2014 Concerns surround toxins in electronic cigarettes An estimated 1.3 million people in the UK now use electronic cigarettes. Credit PA

As more people turn to electronic cigarettes in a bid to kick their smoking habit, Tonight explores the growing concerns surrounding the nicotine alternative.

An estimated 1.3 million people in the UK now use electronic cigarettes, which some researchers say are helping to save millions of lives but Tonight has found eight years after the products first appeared in the country, there appears to be no adequate regulation in Britain, Europe or beyond.

Glenn Thomas of the World Health Organisation told the programme “We still need more research to know and understand what sort of impact on health and people these E cigarettes are having.

“We know that a lot of the toxins which are consumed through E cigarettes have not been adequately researched.”

Watch The Rise of the E Cigarette Tonight at 7.30pm on Thursday on ITV

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