Looks much better now: 876 comments as of 4/2 11:26AM PDT
Thanks to everyone who commented and please keep spreading the word. There are 4.3M vapers in the US and I wish all would submit their stories to FDA
An aide to my state Rep informed me HB 2211 has been deemed "necessary to implement the budget" or NTIB for short. This is very bad! We must show up for the hearing on Friday in large numbers to fight this atrocity.
My state Rep just informed me HB 2211 has been deemed "necessary to implement the budget" or NTIB for short. This is very bad! We must show up for the hearing on Friday in large numbers to fight this atrocity.
cross-linking to the other thread on this article
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/media-general-news/662175-new-study-demonstrates-vaping-effectiveness-12-months.html
«Second-hand vape has zero things to worry about, he explained. If students in my classroom were puffing on e-cigs, I would let them be. I dont honestly know what the rules are here on my campus, they probably restrict it, but theres no scientific reason to do that »
California State...
because those who dare step off the party line are burnt at the stake
A strong case against junk science: Dr. Enstrom vs. UCLA - American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/08/ucla-school-of-public-health-fires.html
This is the same Dr Enstrom who...
«The rise in cigarette excise taxes over the past 15 years should provide a warning to those who think once a tax is on the books in a state, there won't be efforts to raise it slowly over time. Minnesota's tax on e-cigarettes began at 75 percent and is now 95 percent. Some taxes are far...
under discussion here
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/media-general-news/660361-riccardo-polosa-electronic-cigarette-use-harm-reversal-emerging-evidence-lung.html?highlight=harm+reversal
but good news like this deserves all the exposure it can get
«As shown in this study, the potential savings to Medicaid significantly exceeds the state revenue raised from the cigarette excise tax and tobacco settlement payments by 87%. As such, the rational policy decision is to adopt a non-interventionist stance toward the evolution and adoption of...
LOL brilliant in theory, but that would take an awful lot of clicks.
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BTW, Andria, love the new avatar picture with the #BigVapor logo in the corner
Reactions from actual scientists:
Alarmist survey on teenage vaping misses the point – reaction « The counterfactual
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/03/stan-glantz-uses-cross-sectional-study.html
Yes,
HOWEVER a new bill was introduced with a 60% tax proposal
HB 2211 - 2015-16
The fight is not over!
HB 2211 scheduled for hearing this Friday April 3 at 8:00 AM
Everyone should write to Rep Chris Hurst thanking him for his common-sense, evidence-based approach
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/spincontrol/2015/mar/30/waleg-day-78-committee-stubs-out-e-cigarette-tax/
Thanks for posting this. The polyticks have been very quiet about this. I hadn't heard anything about a scheduled executive meeting.
It looks like a substitute bill surfaced that eliminates many of the atrocious provisions in the original HB 1645 bill, including confiscatory tax, flavors ban...
Check this our vapers. The voices of thousands of advocates and health professionals have been heard. The militant extremists responsible for the #StillBlowingSmoke atrocity are now backtracking...
vapers were ready to counter this nonsense on social media
CDC prepares to launch massive anti-ecig lie campaign | Anti-THR Lies and related topics
The CDC in cahoots with the CA
http://notblowingsmoke.org
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