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  1. Thulium

    Using FDA definition how are pipes NOT a tobacco product?

    In a sense, e-cigarettes ARE regulated identically to pipes...which is to say, they aren't yet. When the FDA agreed to follow the District and Appeals courts' ruling and not attempt to regulate products (that don't make therapeutic claims) as tobacco products under their new authority from the...
  2. Thulium

    FOIA Request Results (Open Government Advocacy by CASAA members)

    I'm sure that is what she meant to imply, but the phrase "obviously proprietary and commercial" is very curious. If it is so obvious, why not specify the commercial interest unless "proprietary and commercial" is understood to mean "Not 'One Of Us'" and ignored.
  3. Thulium

    My home town!

    Even if the benefits of drinking coffee outweigh the risks (which I agree they probably do), the fact remains that there ARE dangers to drinking coffee so it cannot really be called "safe" or "healthy". You can say the exact same thing about nicotine. In any case, the comparison was with or...
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    FOIA Request Results (Open Government Advocacy by CASAA members)

    Also be sure to ask what she meant by your "obviously proprietary and commercial organization". From the context of this email, it is clear she has dismissed CASAA out of hand, but I'm curious what she thinks "obviously proprietary and commercial" means and what it has to do with anything.
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    My home town!

  6. Thulium

    My home town!

    No question, "Tooleydoo" is way more fun to say.
  7. Thulium

    What we are up against

    Yes. It doesn't always happen right away, but Truth has a tendency to always leak out. Agreed. Unfortunately if the "Powers That Be" have their way, Corn will remain king for the foreseeable future--which is why hemp remains illegal in many areas. Big Pharma and the prohibitionists...
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    Leonard J Chabert Medical Center smoke free (including e-cigs) (louisiana state hospital)

    While you are definitely right that is the next logical step for a Nanny State, I don't think that is what people really want as much as what they are willing to accept because they dislike tobacco so very much. If we get too focused on what the next phase of the prohibitionist agenda might...
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    What we are up against

    The "conspiracy theorist" in me has a hard time believing that mass delusions happen by accident. Remember that the "cigarette industry" is the same tobacco industry that this country was founded upon. Tobacco was responsible, for example, for the very survival of colonial America, so...
  10. Thulium

    FDA's comment about nicotine in E-Cigs...

    To borrow a phrase from my childhood: "They would if they could, but they can't so they won't." The FDA wanted to regulate e-cigarettes under their authority for drugs and devices because under the FDCA they have authority to ban and seize unapproved drugs, but they do not have the authority...
  11. Thulium

    FOIA Request Results (Open Government Advocacy by CASAA members)

    *redacted*
  12. Thulium

    FOIA Request Results (Open Government Advocacy by CASAA members)

    Elaine, when dealing with *nix based systems (Android is built on Linux) "root" means full system authority (like on a DOS system if you have admin access to the root directory, you'll have access to all sub-directories) so "rooting" is the Android equivalent of "JailBreaking" an iPhone--giving...
  13. Thulium

    Received this email from FDA

    One minor correction, section31: Diethylene Glycol is actually a very toxic antifreeze, but Propylene Glycol is frequently used instead to avoid toxicity. The amount of DEG found in the Smoking Everywhere '555' cartridge was "about 1%" and the FDA did not detect it (or any other toxins or...
  14. Thulium

    Utah Board of Regents 'Smoke Free policy'

    You don't need a scientist to conduct years of clinical research to figure this stuff out. Study: All American Problems Could Be Solved By Just Stopping And Thinking For Two Seconds | The Onion - America's Finest News Source Exactly. When word got out that tobacco companies had been...
  15. Thulium

    Utah Board of Regents 'Smoke Free policy'

    Yes, like pretty much everything put forward by Tobacco Control, this won't actually accomplish anything except perhaps make it less likely that smokers will stop smoking. My point was simply that this too is not a true win as it still represents a change to the law that is not supported by...
  16. Thulium

    Bitcoin

    The beauty of the Bitcoin process is that processing is done to help keep the system secure. The more processing power that is used to mine for bitcoins and re-verify transactions, the more processing power would be required to crack it and the currency has a better chance of keeping its value.
  17. Thulium

    FDA unveils new warnings for cigarette packs

    That is an important distinction, MoonRose, but unfortunately it is not entirely true. While you are technically correct that the epidemiological studies that have associated a link between smoking and an increased risk of various types of cancer does not necessarily mean that smoking is the...
  18. Thulium

    Another NY gem of legislation being proposed

    Of course not, I chose a ridiculous example to make the point very clear that even extremely strongs "SHOULDs" are still not "MUST". Anecdotal evidence, common sense, or even intuition can be good guides to determine what things you should or should not do; but that does not mean they are valid...
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    lolwut? (check out this contridiction)

    If you use the same CDC data that is the source of all the claims that 46 Million smokers = 400k+ (spooky fact: 666^2=443,556) annual deaths from smoking on smokeless tobacco, 46 Million smokeless tobacco users would result in 6000 deaths from oral cancer (compared to 13000 oral cancer + 380,000...
  20. Thulium

    Petition, Claiming E-Cigarettes Cause Cancer

    86...a bit shy of their goal of 1000! :laugh:
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