Tobacco Industry Astroturfing

[DCBD]

Beware of 95percent dot org. It's an astroturfing site setup by Imperial tobacco to look like an "advocacy" site. It's better to support CASAA. You can read more about 95percent dot org here on the CASAA FB page.

 

[Rossum]

Interesting. All I get at 95Percent dot org is a pop-up login request.

 

[retired1]

Do NOT register on their site.

 

[Rossum]

Do NOT register on their site.

 

[YoursTruli]

This needs to be stickeyed somewhere or a much better forum wide alert about this @retired1

 

[Kent C]

95% is a lie. More like 99.9% plus the benefits of nicotine without smoke and tar.

 

[retired1]

This needs to be stickeyed somewhere or a much better forum wide alert about this @retired1

We're working on it.

 

[YoursTruli]

We're working on it.

Thanks I just saw it a few ago on my FB feed too.

 

[DCBD]

Interesting. All I get at 95Percent dot org is a pop-up login request.

Is was up for awhile this morning. I saw a tweet that they are still "fine tuning" the site.

 

[retired1]

Also removed the URL from the thread title. That's a no-no here.

 

[DCBD]

Also removed the URL from the thread title. That's a no-no here.

Thanks. I was in a hurry. No excuse for bad behavior.

 

[skoony]

95% is a lie. More like 99.9% plus the benefits of nicotine without smoke and tar.

Thanks you and the Brit's for reiterating what I have believed and have trying to say in my own way
for a long time.
On the one hand when it comes to pending regulatory issues I have maintained a more or less doom
and gloom approach because I have believed that if in fact vaping is 99.9% safer than smoking there
are no issues what so ever. There is no need for extra-ordinary regulation over and above what is
already on the books concerning any other consumable commercially available consumer product.
In the real world 99.9% safer than smoking literally means it is safe. It is safe as anything can be.
People have a false assumption that there is this thing called 100% safe. This is a myth. A new
born child is not born with 0% risk. Nobody alive has been born with 0% risk. Of course we can and
should make the effort to insure things are as safe as possible and mitigate the dangers of things
that by their very nature are dangerous. This does not change the fact that there are some things
that for all intents and purposes are no business of anyone's except the person that is doing it.
More and more evidence showing vaping better step up its game to cause harm. Vanishing
evidence that second hand vaper could even trigger a allergic reaction in a non-vaper and,
here we are. We have a government spending a few hundreds of a million dollars in an effort
to keep alienated 10 to 20% of the adult population.
Some times I just want to throw my hands up into the air.

Regards
Mike

 

[nicnik]

Vanishing
evidence that second hand vaper could even trigger a allergic reaction in a non-vaper and,
here we are. We have a government spending a few hundreds of a million dollars in an effort
to keep alienated 10 to 20% of the adult population.
Some times I just want to throw my hands up into the air.

The idea of government programs demonizing people is repulsive. let alone demonizing them for legal behavior. Demonizing people for legal, responsible behavior that protects themselves and their families from harm, is worse than repulsive.

 

[Train2]

Those sneaky [edited].
Also, why, @AstroTurf? lol.