i know that im going to get flamed for saying this but i cant help but feel that a lot of this is a fuss over nothing.
suppliers should not advertise them as an aid to quit smoking.
well, they ARE an aid to quit smoking as proven by many, many individuals just on this forum alone. WE are the proof!
suppliers should not advertise them as a safer alternative
well, they ARE a safer alternative. sure, no one knows what the long term effects are and maybe in 10 - 20 years time we will have all grown an extra head, or developed heart and lung problems. but the facts are that many, many people have reported that their health has improved dramatically since quitting analogues and taking up vaping. so short term use without a doubt (in my opinion) DOES show its a safer alternative. WE are the proof!
suppliers should not call it an electronic cigarette
why not!? is it really a big deal? you could call them an electronic fart sucker but at the end of the day we all first made that purchase in order to try and cut down or quit smoking without the feeling we are quitting smoking. i would say that every vaper in the world purchased their original e-cig for that reason. sure, a lot of guys n gals after a period of time then wanted to disassociate themselves totally from smoking and treated vaping as a whole new experience but at the end of the day i would wager that we all started vaping in the first place in order to cut down or quit cigarettes. so regardless of what an e-cig looks like, they will still be copying the actions of a cigarette.
suppliers should not advertise them as NRT
but they ARE! my e-cigs most certainly give me my nicotine fix in the same way as a nicorette inhaler does........dont yours? the only difference is that with an inhaler you exhale air, with an e-cig you exhale vapour. but regardless they still provide the user with nicotine in exactly the same way.
please dont get me wrong, i DO fully understand why you guys feel the way you do and in many ways i feel the exactly the same way. i dont want e-cigs to get banned either!
but my whole point is that everyone seems so scared of them becoming illegal that they are starting to ignore the real facts that are proven by each and every one of us. instead people want to change its name, say it doesnt aid quitting cigarettes, say it isnt nrt, say it isnt a healthier alternative. which in some ways might even aid the case for banning them as in theory you are actually taking away all the positive things about them!
regardless of what the government or the FDA will say or think about it we shouldnt all bow down in fear of them and start changing the facts proven by us. instead we should all be getting together to defend them with every self proven piece of evidence we have. there are probably thousands of posts on this forum alone from users who have only experienced totally positive things since switching to vaping. there are probably just as many posts from users who have said that they quit cigarettes with the use of e-cigs as well.
just about all the evidence we need to prove the government or FDA wrong is contained within the walls of this forum and all the other forums out there. personal experience stories gathered together i think would be a very powerfull tool should the pen pushers ever decide to stick their noses into our business.
okay, time for me to make a swift exit..........TAXI!!