Electronic cigarette opponents' arguments lack logic

[sherid]

Electronic cigarette opponents' arguments lack logic

April 11, 2009

JACOB SULLUM jsullum@reason.com
The first time Tom Kiklas saw an electronic cigarette, he recalls, "I couldn't stand it . . . I thought, 'I don't want to be involved in this.' I'm an anti-smoking kind of guy."

But after Kiklas realized that electronic cigarettes deliver nicotine without tobacco or combustion products, thereby eliminating virtually all of the health hazards associated with smoking, he was comfortable becoming media relations director for inLife, one of the companies that sell the devices in the U.S. Unfortunately, many anti-smoking activists and public health officials are stuck in that first stage of visceral antipathy toward anything that resembles cigarettes, an emotional reaction that could prove deadly for smokers.

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[Caesarea]

"The arguments of e-cigarette opponents, by contrast, reek of red herrings."

Kippers I guess. Nice image.

[Fox3]

Never let a little thing like honesty, integrity and factual data get in the way of a good hysteria or opportunity to do a power-over on someone.

We have to put up with all sorts of crap to "get along" with everyone else, no one has to do that for us. One sided? Ya think?

[Caesarea]

I agree with most of the article. Just admiring the image.

[jamie]

An article so good it needs three threads!

[Vapor]

"Telling smokers they may not use e-cigarettes until they're approved by the FDA is like telling a floundering swimmer not to climb aboard a raft because it might have a leak."

I love this line.

[csrober055]

The issue is quite plain: If it can't be taxed, it can't be passed. (Or: If I see it, tax it)

Until the product(s) mean goo-goo bucks for them, they want no part of it and you will NOT have a say. That's just that.

We have seen how much the government cares about what we have to say. They don't.

The matter here is simple: We don't matter because the monopoly has spoken. Phil Morris and other large and unfathomably, filthy rich companies/financiers will not accept this if they are not making a dollar per second on your use of it. Until this day, you wont use it here in the states. That's just that. Period.

What can we do about it? The only thing(s) that they they do to us, and they is NOT just words, as much as so many of us wish to believe in our make-believe lands of virtue: They are not virtuous!