43 year smoker, 1 1/2 packs a day.
100% quit smoking 12.2.2013
100% due to the choice I made to use e-cigarettes /
vaping.
Three links for you and your director of health:
KNOW the FACTS of what is in the vapor.
Drexel University, peer-reviewed & published chemical analysis:
BMC Public Health | Abstract | Peering through the mist: systematic review of what the chemistry of contaminants in electronic cigarettes tells us about health risks
From the National Institute of Health:
Achieving appropriate regulations for electronic cigarettes
Achieving appropriate regulations for electronic cigarettes
Nicotine is a GOOD thing!
Growing List of Positive Effects of Nicotine Seen in Neurode... : Neurology Today
Fun facts:
* Teenage smoking is at an ALL-TIME LOW
* FDA has approved nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products for long-term, even LIFE-LONG USE
* Recent research from Harvard reports 60% improved quit-smoking rates with e-cigarettes / vaping
NOTE: NRT products are proven to be less than 8% effective!!!
* Tens of MILLIONS of people have used e-cigarettes / vaping world-wide for nearly 10 years
* ZERO reports wide-spread patterns of harm due to e-cigarettes / vaping.
* SCIENCE-based assessments puts the RISK of HARM at LESS than 1% that posed by cigarettes.
Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR), is a cogent and scientifically solid position to lead from.
PROTECT SMOKING?
Those, like your director of health, who oppose e-cigarettes / vaping have no FACTS, SCIENCE or real-world data to fight with.
He, and others who desire to PROTECT SMOKING have nothing left but fear-mongering, innuendo, propaganda, mis-information & LYING.
These type of people will tell you of the *presence* of toxins, but will NEVER tell you the EXPOSURE LEVELS.
That is when he, and they LIE by omission in withholding the levels as being MAGNITUDES LOWER than established EPA & OSHA safety levels, or levels that pose ZERO real-world RISK.
Please learn the FACTS & SCIENCE, and formulate policies that REMOVES hurdles & impediments to this technology that can prove to be the greatest PUBLIC HEALTH achievement of our lifetime.
You have demonstrated over & over through the entirety of your first term, an ability to make the HARD, but CORRECT choices.
Michigan is looking to you to keep your streak going, and LEAD us to the CORRECT & RIGHT policies on this life-saving technology & CHOICE.
Please sign Senate Bill 668.
would go far enough and regulate the vaporizers like traditional tobacco products.
