"argues that e-cigarettes should be promoted as an effective strategy for helping people kick the habit. Unfortunately, this is contrary to the facts."

And your statement is contrary to reality.  I'd been smoking for 40 years.  For four months now, I've been vaping...successfully and have NO desire now for the nastiness of cigarettes.  Let me go further - Before starting, I would see other people vaping and I would ask them if they smoked before and how long it's been since they had smoked.  They came back with answers like, 3 years...18 months...2 years...and one guy, who was a lifetime smoker, quit vaping altogether when he got his nicotine levels so low he figured "why bother" and now, a lifetime smoker is free from it all.  THOSE stories are what gave me the confidence to try vaping AFTER having failed at patches and the like.  So - keep your stats.  ACTUAL reality says otherwise.