In their second annual "Goalkeepers" report, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had a section on electronic cigarettes. In it they expressed their view that while E-cigarettes and other alternative tobacco produces are not harmless, but they could be less devastating. Researchers need to better understand whether e-cigarettes could lower smoking rates without addicting youth.

See below for a snippet from that report.

Click here to download the entire report at the Gates Foundation