Hi All, I'm fairly new to this forum and I am pretty sure that I can only post on the "New Member's Forum" so hopefully someone with more posting privileges can add this to the proper forum. I read a ridiculously one-sided and ill-research/ill-informed article on smartplanet by a guy named "Dana Blankenhorn" calling e-cigs a "scam". I don't have enough points to post a link, but if you go to smartplanet and search for the word "e-cigarette" you will find it pops right up. Well, I decided to email him and let him know how I felt about the article. The response was pathetic and typical, so I wanted to share this with you all. The following, is the email thread between Dana and Me:
Dana,
What an ignorant, one-sided, and ill-researched article. Dana, get your facts straight please!! There are too many inaccurate statements in this article to even count. It is sickeningly obvious that the FDA has no interest in actually obtaining the truth about these products or protecting the the American people. Indeed, these actions taken by the FDA are nothing more than greed and corrupt alliances with Big tobacco, Big Pharmaceutical companies. Their attempt to maintain current levels of tobacco tax revenue come at the cost of thousands of lives. The FDA is who should be under investigation, not e-cigarettes. A full scale criminal investigation should be launched and lawsuits should be filed against them for their slanderous lies about e-cigarettes and false accusations fueled by their greed. If there is any sliver of justice left in the court system, they won't get away with this crime! Oh, and just a quick note: I smoked cigarettes for 10 years before I quit and began vaping with e-cigs. I had a complete physical last week and part of that included a lung capacity test. Not only did my tests reveal a huge improvement from last year, but my doctor said that my breath capacity and lungs are among the strongest he has ever examined.
Sincerely,
Christy
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Right. Anyone who reports on what the FDA is doing, truthfully, must
be a liar. You found a new, "safer" way to get your drug fix, so now no
one can tell you you're an addict.
Well, you're still an addict.
Dana
Dana Blankenhorn
SmartPlanet - We Make You Smarter - People, Business & Technology
Phone Number 404-373-7634
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Dana,
Is that really your response?!?! LOL, you totally missed the point of
my email to you. Either that, or you're just trying to distract from
the real issue because you have no answer. I NEVER said anything about
getting my "fix" or that it meant that I wasn't "addicted" to nicotine.
It's obvious that you were ONLY "reporting" (aka copying/plagiarizing)
some half-assed, one-sided, and self-serving FDA statement. My point is
that you lazily wrote an article calling e-cigs a "scam" without doing
any actual research other than blindly repeating a sn FDA statement. If
you were any type of real researcher or writer you would do your due
diligence and investigate the BS reasoning and excuses being used by the
FDA. You would talk to some people who actually use the e-cigarettes
and ask what their reasons are for switching. You would use some
deductive reasoning (it wouldn't even take a lot!) and ask yourself why
the FDA continues to allow tobacco products to be sold freely and drugs
like Chantix to be prescribed when there are documented cases of
death/suicides from it's use! Just spewing out quotes from the FDA,
then using inflammatory and misleading words like "scam" in the title
is NOT research and it doesn't make you a credible reporter/writer. It
makes you irresponsible. Let me know when you have a real answer to my
email.
Sincerely,
"Still An Addict"
Dana,
What an ignorant, one-sided, and ill-researched article. Dana, get your facts straight please!! There are too many inaccurate statements in this article to even count. It is sickeningly obvious that the FDA has no interest in actually obtaining the truth about these products or protecting the the American people. Indeed, these actions taken by the FDA are nothing more than greed and corrupt alliances with Big tobacco, Big Pharmaceutical companies. Their attempt to maintain current levels of tobacco tax revenue come at the cost of thousands of lives. The FDA is who should be under investigation, not e-cigarettes. A full scale criminal investigation should be launched and lawsuits should be filed against them for their slanderous lies about e-cigarettes and false accusations fueled by their greed. If there is any sliver of justice left in the court system, they won't get away with this crime! Oh, and just a quick note: I smoked cigarettes for 10 years before I quit and began vaping with e-cigs. I had a complete physical last week and part of that included a lung capacity test. Not only did my tests reveal a huge improvement from last year, but my doctor said that my breath capacity and lungs are among the strongest he has ever examined.
Sincerely,
Christy
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Right. Anyone who reports on what the FDA is doing, truthfully, must
be a liar. You found a new, "safer" way to get your drug fix, so now no
one can tell you you're an addict.
Well, you're still an addict.
Dana
Dana Blankenhorn
SmartPlanet - We Make You Smarter - People, Business & Technology
Phone Number 404-373-7634
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Dana,
Is that really your response?!?! LOL, you totally missed the point of
my email to you. Either that, or you're just trying to distract from
the real issue because you have no answer. I NEVER said anything about
getting my "fix" or that it meant that I wasn't "addicted" to nicotine.
It's obvious that you were ONLY "reporting" (aka copying/plagiarizing)
some half-assed, one-sided, and self-serving FDA statement. My point is
that you lazily wrote an article calling e-cigs a "scam" without doing
any actual research other than blindly repeating a sn FDA statement. If
you were any type of real researcher or writer you would do your due
diligence and investigate the BS reasoning and excuses being used by the
FDA. You would talk to some people who actually use the e-cigarettes
and ask what their reasons are for switching. You would use some
deductive reasoning (it wouldn't even take a lot!) and ask yourself why
the FDA continues to allow tobacco products to be sold freely and drugs
like Chantix to be prescribed when there are documented cases of
death/suicides from it's use! Just spewing out quotes from the FDA,
then using inflammatory and misleading words like "scam" in the title
is NOT research and it doesn't make you a credible reporter/writer. It
makes you irresponsible. Let me know when you have a real answer to my
email.
Sincerely,
"Still An Addict"
