Iowa DOJ Comes Down In Favor of ecigs/vaping

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Just released today. Merry Christmas from the Iowa DOJ!

December 23, 2015

Statement by Attorney General Tom Miller on Electronic Cigarette Key Facts

"The harm of the combustible cigarette is dramatically greater than the harm of the e-cigarette"

"The harm of the combustible cigarette is dramatically greater than the harm of the e-cigarette. The combustible cigarette is by far the most harmful consumer product known to mankind,
killing 480,000 people each year in the United States alone. This is largely due to the many deadly toxins created and released by the combustion. A panel of experts estimates that the e-
cigarette is 95% less harmful. Some push back on this study, in part questioning the ability to put an exact number on it. Another estimate is 90-98% less harmful. But whatever number is
correct, e-cigarettes are dramatically less harmful than combustible cigarettes.

"There has been an effort to say that combustible cigarettes and e-cigarettes are equally harmful, that their companies are equally evil, and that they should be strongly regulated the
same way. This view is incorrect, but it has gotten significant traction. Polling indicates that 32% of Americans believe that combustible cigarettes and e-cigarettes are equally harmful. This
means that as many as 13 million adult smokers believe them to be equally harmful, and are very unlikely to switch when switching may save their lives. People making misstatements
about e-cigarettes have the best of intentions—to keep kids from being addicted to nicotine through e-cigarettes. But adults misleading kids to get them to do what
we want has always been a failed strategy.

"There also is a misconception about the prevalence of teen e-cigarette smoking. According to the National Youth tobacco Survey, 13% of American high school students smoked an e-
cigarette once or more in the last 30 days. This includes regular use and experimental use. As the figure is repeated, the number 13% is used without that qualification. After a few
repetitions, people then tend to assume that 13% are regular users. However, regular use—if defined by usage in 20 or more days in the last 30 days—is actually 2%. The numbers should be
seen together-13% used e-cigarettes once or more in the last 30 days; 2% have used an e-cigarette 20 or more days in the last 30 days."
 
Wow, that shows so much common sense that it is absolutely mind blowing that it came from a public official.


2016 could go either way for vaping! Fight for your rights! I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."


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I am so pleased to know that some politician in middle America actually has a brain in his head! Unlike all the politicians in Indiana and Illinois and Arkansas and Washington state and California.

Yes I had to keep adding to that last sentence as more idjits occurred to me after the first one. :facepalm:

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I'm from Illinois and believe me I was happy to .... this last spring. Especially after living in Atlanta. Illinois will tax you to death! They are I believe the most bankrupt state now. And don't get me started about our last two governers who spent time behind bars for corruption. :facepalm:
 

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I think everyone in those oppressed states should just move on down to GA. Vaping is cool here; it's actually on the lawbooks that vaping is not the same thing as smoking! And GA is extremely intolerant of idiocy from DC.

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I think everyone in those oppressed states should just move on down to GA. Vaping is cool here; it's actually on the lawbooks that vaping is not the same thing as smoking! And GA is extremely intolerant of idiocy from DC.

Andria

I live in Tennessee now, and it seems cool here. People say so much about the south, but I find that it is one of the nicest places to live.
 
Since this AG is Democratic...perhaps we could persuade him to contact some of his counterparts.


Great point! Any help that anyone from either party can throw at this the better. Glad to see he is on board.
 

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If this fine gentleman has social media accounts, we should nicely commend him for his actions and suggest he bring this up with his fellow AG's across the country. AG's are more connected to their counterparts in other states as they can and do challenge Federal laws and regulations as they apply to the states. Getting more of them on the side of vaping would be an asset.
 
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