Great American Smoke Out: Opportunity

[Vocalek]

Today is a great opportunity for campaigning. Go outside and join the smokers on your work-breaks. Show them how your PV works.

Look in your paper for a feature story on the Great American Smoke Out, and write a letter to the editor that responds to the story. Be sure to mention the title of the story in your letter and the publication date.

Keep it short -- under 200 words. Keep it positive. Most newspapers accept letters by email and include something on their web site about what they look for in letters to the editor.

[Karl the heretiK]

Today is a great opportunity for campaigning. Go outside and join the smokers on your work-breaks. Show them how your PV works.

Look in your paper for a feature story on the Great American Smoke Out, and write a letter to the editor that responds to the story. Be sure to mention the title of the story in your letter and the publication date.

Keep it short -- under 200 words. Keep it positive. Most newspapers accept letters by email and include something on their web site about what they look for in letters to the editor.

Come to think of it, it wouldn't be an idea to start forming local vaper clubs and prepare for next year... have a National Vape-Out on the same day, and stage a small event somewhere, en masse...

And if you think of it, send some press releases to your local papers a couple weeks ahead of your Vape-Out... you may get some reporter types showing up to check you out...

I dunno... the ideas just fly around like bats in the belfry...

I'm terrible with execution, though... so come on someone... let's run with it!

[Vocalek]

Why wait until next November. The East Coast crew is planning a get together in Fredricksburg VA the weekend of March 13, 2010 http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/for...t-meet-up.html

Why don't we get some things going in other places like the Midwest, The South West, the West Coast, etc. on that same weekend?

What do you say New Jersey? Are you guys coming down to Fredricksburg, or are you having your own fest up north?

[Webby]

I'm all for forming a Gulf Coast Vapers group - unless there already is one that I'm not aware of...

[oldlady]

I love the idea of becoming more active--letters to the editor, protests, or even revolutions. But, next November 13, let's have a "Smoke out, Vape in!"

Isn't our whole point to show there is nothing wrong with vaping?

[Slickstick]

I love the idea of becoming more active--letters to the editor, protests, or even revolutions. But, next November 13, let's have a "Smoke out, Vape in!"

Isn't our whole point to show there is nothing wrong with vaping?

Until somebody gets murdered or dies accidentally because of a wrong shipment of a lethal dose of nicotine. Vaping seems perfectly safe. Nobody really knows. If one day it is proven safe, It is up to the suppliers to ensure nothing over 48mg leaves the shop. And who is going to stop terrorists from opening up shop and sending millions of free samples of pure nicotine in it's deadliest form labeled as 24mg, to the masses. Let's get real here. I want these to stay legal just as much as anybody else. But there are dangers involved that need to be addressed. Based on a report of pure nicotine being 1010mg, The only truly safe way to vape, even if it was healthy, is to cut every bottle you receive ten times 50/50 without getting a single drop on your skin until you have cut it many times. And work from the bottom up until you get a level you can tolerate to vape. Just like a potent fix of ...... can kill you, so can this. Even if it were bought in a store, this could happen. I am not being paranoid this is a real possibility.

Somebody please correct this noob as I am hoping I am wrong about this.

[TropicalBob]

That's kinda funny, but a good reason not to immediately open and use any e-liquid you buy or obtain. Just let it sit. If other e-smokers start dropping dead, you'll read about it on the front page or hear it on TV.

Then ... you don't use that liquid.

Vocalek is right on about how to handle this. Dispassionate appeal to the public -- four out of five are non-smokers -- is the way this must go. We need public support, or all is lost. Lord knows the health groups and governmental agencies are stacked AGAINST us. So we must have public support. We get that by continuing to argue the intelligence of our decision of vape instead of smoke, for harm reduction reasons. And we agree that regulations on "bathtub juice" are desperately needed to avoid a public relations disaster that would doom this technology.

[acezzz]

While the government banning ecigs would definately suck, I dont think it could stop people from vaping. Just look at the "herb" that has been illegal for years. More people use that "herb" now than ever before and devices for using it can be found everywhere. Where there is a will, people will always find a way.

[oldlady]

acezzz,

I wish you were right. When I first ordered my kit, I didn't know to get juice with it. I ended up searching for a local supplier and found zippo! In the end, I ordered some samples with overnight shipping via the good old Internet.

If they take our suppliers off the Web...then what?