There's an email address at the bottom of the advertisement. Send them an email. I did:
"To whom it may concern,
Quote from your advertisement:
---For at least a year, used e-cigarettes or smokeless tobacco while continuing to smoke some cigarettes (age 20-60); and
---Thought using e-cigarettes or smokeless tobacco to cut back on some cigarettes would be good for your health; and
---Despite cutting back, you were later diagnosed with a serious health condition.
I am especially interested in the last bullet point. Did you include this so that, in the future, you can spread the lie that e-cigarettes caused the serious health condition?
Why this vilification regarding e- cigs? Propylene Glycol ... approved and rated as GRAS by the FDA (also, an anti-virulent). Vegetable glycerin, also approved and rated as GRAS by the FDA. FDA approved flavourings, too. All of the above approved by the FDA for inhalation. Don't believe me? Go to a restaurant and breathe in the kitchen. Nicotine ... the exact same nicotine which is used in FDA approved NRT's. The exact same nicotine that is used to treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and a host of other maladies. The exact same nicotine that is found in vegetables from the Solaceae family.
I am now 50 years old. I smoked for 39 years. When I quit and made the switch to a Personal Vaporizer with 18 mg/ml of nicotine, I was smoking 2 1/2 packs a day. I had COPD. I couldn't walk up three flights of stairs without stopping for breathe. I was constantly sick (I work in a university environment). Now, a year later, I no longer have COPD. I can run up the seven fights of stairs to my apartment, and, I have only had one cold. Recently, I had a medical, including a chest x-ray. The doctor said my lungs were clean.
My testimony is no different than millions of other peoples' testimonies around the world.
The CDC, FDA, WHO, and Cancer & Lung institutes around the world need to get their collective heads out of their collective butts, and start looking at these devices for what they truly are, NOT what they may or may not be.
They are NOT marketed towards children. They are adult devices marketed at adults. We like flavours, too (what do you think keeps reminding us of the vile taste of cigarettes?). The CDC needs to stop its campaign of lies about poisonings, as well. There were more poisonings from toothpaste in the last year, than there were from electronic cigarette liquids. Why not start a campaign about safe toothpaste storage? Or, how about restarting the safety campaigns from the '70's and '80's regarding safe storage of liquids in the home and garage? Or, even better ... how about running advertisements on proper parenting skills, so that parents don't leave crap out that kids can stick in their mouths?
Thank you,
Chris Knight"
