Posted on 04/06/2015 2:32:07 AM PDT by Libloather
For nicotine enthusiasts, 2015 will be remembered as part of a golden era. Less than 10 years after they were introduced in the United States, e-cigarettes have gone relatively unregulated by health agencies, with companies and users making their own rules in a nicotine-laced Wild West. E-cigarette companies have been advertising their products to adults and children alike, claiming to help smokers quit while simultaneously promoting lollipop-flavored liquids. But now health organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and even city-based public health departments are starting to fight back—not in the form of regulations, but with their own media campaigns.
It’s a tough fight to pick. Nationwide, more than 20 million people— about one in 10 adults —have tried e-cigarettes, and plenty of those people have become vaping devotees. That’s due at least in part to the way e-cig companies have advertised their products, unhindered by the FDA’s ad regulations for tobacco products. “It’s totally out of control,” says Stanton Glantz , director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California San Francisco . “For the first time since 1972, we have recreational nicotine being advertised on television and radio.” Reminiscent of glamorous smoking ads of the last century , many of the ads feature celebrity endorsements; in a Blu ad, Jenny McCarthy flirts with the camera while rejoicing that she can now smoke without scaring guys away with her smell. And many of them seem shockingly child-centric. “The youth use is exploding in parallel to the marketing,” says Glantz.
What’s a concerned public health agency to do? Fight ads with ads.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
They just can’t leave us alone. You would think they would be happy about eCigs if they really hate cigarettes.
Oh, it will get really dirty.
I started vaping seven months ago, and haven’t had an urge to smoke since.
Interesting because tonight is a first: an Ashton Cabinet!
Lollipop flavored nicotine? That’s okay?
“Lollipop flavored nicotine? That’s okay?”
Have you seen the variety of snuff that’s out there, just about any flavor you could want.
People are dying from asthma because the environmentalists caused aerosol-based inhalers to be banned from the marketplace in order to “save the ozone layer.” No one is safe.
What’s a concerned public health agency to do? Fight ads with ads.
And the winner is... The Advertising agencies and the various media that carries the advertisements.
The regulators are going to have to move beyond the cancer related health argument to an assertion that nicotine addiction is, itself, a negative health consequence. That seems like a reasonable position to me.
They should have stepped on the neck of tobacco back in 1996, but they just had to keep it around to make all of gr8 that tax money. Now it is coming around to bite the government in the butt. Now they are not even going to get the tax money.
I predict that a mechanism will be derived within a few years for the vapers to pay their protection money to the government in the form of an excise tax. Whatever pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo is needed will be produced, probably by the EPA, or perhaps the CPSC. If the government is completely shameless, they will have the FDA produce the shank, and sacrifice their last remnant of scientific credibility.
It is hard to bet against “completely shameless”...
Anti-smoking was and is a big cause for the left. i never understood thier obsession with it. Sure, they have a big point about the unhealtiness of it, but vaping solves that problem. Why are thier heads exploding over this while at the same time blue states are legalizing the reefers? There must be a powerful demon who does not like the smell of nicotine.
Well people need to understand something.
lung cancer is the most prevalent cancer among both smokers and non smokers worldwide.
I could substitute caffeine for nicotine in your sentence. The two substances are nearly identical in their molecular structure and their health consequences are very close too. Do you really think that banning coffee is a reasonable position?
Really?
Source, documentation, link? I call BS.
>>an assertion that nicotine addiction is, itself, a negative health consequence.
What are the negative health consequences? Lower incidence of Alzheimer’s and thus fewer Dem voters?
Believe it or not, it's true. Google is your friend. Use it, if you dare.
You made the goofy comment, you (or the other addicts) should back it up.
It’s not about smoking.
It’s about control.
No one seems to get all bothered by nicotine patches or gum, but e-cigs are causing all kinds of concerns. It’s just another delivery method. I smoked for 45 years and have been vaping now for 2 1/2 years. No more cigarettes. I feel great and would never go back to smoking, but I am addicted to nicotine. Trying VERY slowly to cut back on the nicotine, but I’ll probably just keep vaping anyway.
Where are these "advertised" to children?
The same author would never make this same charge about hash oil laced candy bars or brownies in Colorado.
“Lollipop flavored nicotine? That’s okay?”
How about Coca-Cola flavored Rum? Or...oh my god...orange juice flavored Vodka!!
Translation: "There's not enough tax revenue coming in. They're going to cut fund to my department!"
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