Obama Receiving an E-Cig For Valentine’s Day

[GoldenP51]

PR stunt for sure. I'm SURE the secret service would let the first black president (or any president for that matter) smoke a device given to him as a gift with some liquid in it lol

Imagine he wants to smoke an analog...one of his secret service guys probably has to smoke half of it in a sealed room before it even sees the same room Obama is in!

And I wouldn't be worried about it gaining attention...you know how many gifts he probably gets each day? Probably a LOT that he will never see that all go to the same place...the landfill.

[TropicalBob]

Tropical Bob will do nothing about this except scream to high heaven that this is a really, really stupid idea and marketing ploy. Yes, Crown7 tried this and issued a press release. Mr. Philadelphia erected a billboard. It's about publicity and nothing more. Pure greed on display. Stupid is as stupid does -- get noticed is Rule 1.

I fully expect SafeCig to strap e-cigs around turkeys which are then dropped from a helicopter hovering over downtown Philadelphia.

Imagine the publicity.

Dumbdumbdumbdumb ....

[LaceyUnderall]

Ok... moving past the BS of sending the president an e-cig... did anyone happen to see who was quoted in the article and what he said????

"It's provocative; it's the bad boy without tars," said Patrick Reynolds, son of the late R.J. Reynolds, who supports the Foundation for a Smokefree America in Los Angeles.

"Electronic cigarettes lack Food and Drug Administration approval as a smoking cessation device. While Reynolds hasn't seen research on electronic cigarettes, since one in four smokers who quit say a cigarette substitute was very helpful, he's reluctant to bash an alternative that is less injurious than cigarettes. "

This is HUGE.

[surbitonPete]

It doesn't matter how you look at it, they are really going to have a tough time justifying banning E-cigs...........it quite seriously has the potential to completely take over from tobacco smoking......there might be dangers we don't know about....but it's unlikely they could be anything like tobacco smoking.

[LaceyUnderall]

It doesn't matter how you look at it, they are really going to have a tough time justifying banning E-cigs...........it quite seriously has the potential to completely take over from tobacco smoking......there might be dangers we don't know about....but it's unlikely they could be anything like tobacco smoking.

Agreed. How could they ban the e-cig even with the unknowns and still allow tobacco cigs with the knowns? This will all be very interesting. Either way, we now know as fact that the RJ Reynolds Foundation is aware of the e-cig. It will be interesting to see what they start saying over the next few weeks.

I personally think it will be a huge statement on the "anti campaigns" behalf if RJR comes out and says that these are a great step forward. It will put the RJR Foundation back into the tobacco harm reduction category and less of the prohibitionist category.

[K.P.]

And I wouldn't be worried about it gaining attention...you know how many gifts he probably gets each day? Probably a LOT that he will never see that all go to the same place...the landfill.

My thoughts exactly.

[surbitonPete]

Agreed. How could they ban the e-cig even with the unknowns and still allow tobacco cigs with the knowns? This will all be very interesting. Either way, we now know as fact that the RJ Reynolds Foundation is aware of the e-cig. It will be interesting to see what they start saying over the next few weeks.

I personally think it will be a huge statement on the "anti campaigns" behalf if RJR comes out and says that these are a great step forward. It will put the RJR Foundation back into the tobacco harm reduction category and less of the prohibitionist category.

Lacy I originally hoped that vaping could go unnoticed for as long as possible.....but I think it's just too big a thing for that to be possible.....every smoker you meet wants to try vaping.....and nearly all of them succeed in stopping smoking when they do.

[LaceyUnderall]

Lacy I originally hoped that vaping could go unnoticed for as long as possible.....but I think it's just too big a thing for that to be possible.....every smoker you meet wants to try vaping.....and nearly all of them succeed in stopping smoking when they do.

Yeah... there is absolutely no way to keep this secret. It is blowing up and I have traffic reports showing a 200% increase month over month over the past six months.

Hold onto your e-cigs folks... the explosion is just around the corner. By the end of 2009, these will be mainstream and every smoker within a 50 mile radius of a computer or a newspaper will know what an e-cig is.

[GabbyD]

Like everything in life, the idiots will screw it up for the rest of us.

It doesn't matter if five million people have been puffing on them for a year and every single one of them are proven healthier today and every single one of them gave up cigarettes immediately upon starting with the e-cig, the FDA surely can and will still ban them if they so desire.

[sherid]

Obama gave plugs to Nicorette. At a campaign event, someone asked him about quitting, and he said the gum was pretty effective, then offered a piece to someone in the audience. If he can plug for Nicorette, he can plug for e cigs. Nicorette is shameless in advertising. Cinnamon Surge, fruit flavors, mint with tooth whiteners....all clearly aimed at teens who can buy the nicotine substitute without regulation and then graduate to smoking after school.