California department of health is misleading and lying to the public about the dangers of e-cigarettes. This might seem like a "who cares" kind of thing, but this is a rare instance of paper thin morality on the part of health officials with financial interests shining right through. They are gambling on this one.
Many people have been horribly affected by damage from tobacco products and for California to be literally discouraging smokers from using e-cigarettes is not only irresponsible, its a violation of the trust we placed in their hands and they are motivated to do this by the intense financial pressures weighing on their shoulders and the anti-smoking ideology that they have built up over the decades. They place these interests ahead of public health, and once noticed by enough people, once the mainstream tide begins to shift on this, there will be a significant backlash.