Posted on 01/28/2015 8:41:44 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
According to Dr. Gilbert Ross, Medical and Executive Director, American Council on Science and Health…
Smoking is America’s most important, and preventable, public health problem: It is estimated that almost a half-million of us will succumb prematurely to smoking’s deadly effects each year, with twenty-times that number sickened. Among our 43 million smokers, over half try to quit each year, yet less than one in twenty succeed. The FDA approved products—patches, gums, and drugs—help “boost” that to about one in ten, an abysmal “success” rate of 10 percent. Yet, the official line, from the FDA and the CDC on down, is “stick with the FDA-approved methods; don’t even try anything else!”
Chief among that “anything else” are e-cigarettes, loved by users—because they do help you quit—but almost unanimously hated by officialdom. Dr. Ross has been in the forefront of those criticizing the coordinated and baseless attacks on e-cigarettes for years, and fortunately he is not alone. Other good guys include Bill Godshall, Brad Rodu, Michael Siegel, Carl Phillips, and Clive Bates. However, there are powerful forces against e-cigarettes, including the proverbial strange bedfellows.
Clearly, Big Tobacco has been against e-cigarettes from the get-go, alarmed by decreasing cigarette sales, compared to skyrocketing e-cigarette sales. Some cigarette manufacturers have even ventured into the e-cig business themselves. Big Pharma also lines up against e-cigs, with its gums, patches, and lozenges; not to mention nicotine receptor partial agonist drugs such as Chantix. Ross notes the miserable track record of these pharmaceutical products, and is too polite to ask if people would take any other pharmaceutical with such a poor success rate. Chantix is also known for bizarre side effects, and carries the dreaded black box warning against serious neuropsychiatric events.
As to the strange bedfellows, e-cig opponents include many public health departments...
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Not a direct causal relation, mind you, but still. Once upon a time, we tolerated things that were mildly bothersome. Then we decided that everyone else had to behave in accordance with our own personal whims. And we all became controlled.
e-cigs are unhealthy because they are not taxed. Once that happens they’ll be OK.
I think you nailed it; just like pot use and tolerance has “evolved”.
If I am forced to live in a society that deems it “perfectly acceptable” that turdburglars and clamlickers can publicly flaunt their “lifestyle choices”... I will smoke unfiltered cigarettes within 15’ of the effing building... when it is -17 degrees.
Seriously... I will die whenever I die... but my soul is tainted with all the faggotry that is about.
"Oh...you don't sell cigarettes anymore....but you do sell that addictive drug Nicotene...at a heavy price, too. Amazing!!"
MUST...HAVE... GOVERNMENT... CONTROL!!!
you know, that is a profound statement,and I think its true.....
we were a better country when people smoked and drank regular coffee,not some fancy concoction that people BUY thru a drive thru stand...
maybe it reflects more on the type of people who drank regular home brewed coffee and drank cigarettes...the hard working WW2 generation...
It is interesting that Prohibition also ushered in the federal income tax. Prior to Prohibition federal excise taxes especially on alcohol funded the federal government.
E-cigarettes, then, are somewhat in the category of marijuana. Outta control, and not subject to the whims of the nanny state.
There is probably almost as much illegal distribution of “pot” as there ever was, even in those localities where the sale of marijuana is officially sanctioned. It is the counterculture aspect that is so appealing.
The picture of “cool” while taking a drag on a cigarette has not diminished very much, even yet. Puffing away on an e-cigarette is the equivalent of “safe sex” after the advent of the sexual revolution.
E-cigs are the smoking population’s assault weapons. It is all in the appearance. They are convincing people that because it looks like smoking, sort of, it is EVIL, even worse than Marlboros because it’s fake.
“and drank cigarettes...”
Dang, they really were “hard core”!
Isn’t that like snorting whiskey and drinking cocaine?
NAIL ON HEAD.
We have to put up with homosexuality and cross dressing , and now drugs is alright but smoking and e cigs are bad in their view.
What a messed up country we now live in.
The county that I live in has an “indoor smoking ban” in all public facilities, which includes the use of e-cigarettes. Chiefly, because it gives the impression of smoking, even though there’s no actual smoke. Complete nanny-state bullshit.
Obama should lead by example and quit smoking so that we can rid the world of psychopathic scumbag leaders who smoke.
they call it a cigarette
it acts like a cigarette
it is annoying like a cigarette
HOWEVER it should not be treated like a cigarette?
it should be the same:
no sales to the under 18,
same rules in enclosed places like restaurants and offices,
designated smoking locations only.
Why? The issue with smoking is the smoke. There is no smoke.
You forgot the /sarc tag! It’s steam, not smoke from ecigs. Using that logic there should be a ban on all tea pots, coffee percolators, and humidifiers nationwide!
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