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  1. Thulium

    Smoke-free air policies: past, present and future

    Actually, he's more like the guy who gets paid to be an "expert" about things he (sometimes admittedly) knows nothing about so that the people with vested interests can claim they were just doing what the experts told them to do. That's how it works, you see. *facepalm*
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    Get the word out!

    CASAA has far more than 9 members, but there are only 9 currently volunteering on the Board of Directors. You bring up a very good point in that every single person who switches from smoking to vaping is a potentially gripping "personal interest" story on what might be an otherwise slow news...
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    Local NW Floridian with severe injuries from exploding ecig battery

    In order to fail this tragically, I suspect that a lot more than one thing must have gone wrong, but if we must throw something under the bus, why shouldn't it be the ANTZ? :2c: If not for the prohibitionists attempting to ban smoke free alternatives (including many potential predecessors to...
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    UCSF bans e-cigarette use where smoking is banned

    Don't fall for it! Tobacco Control freaks know what is best for people and will resort to violence and war to make sure that people are only allowed to use government approved drugs. If all smokers switched to smoke-free alternatives, or 20% of the population continue to smoke cigarettes until...
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    Oregon vaping

    Oregon Vapers, please join this Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/vaporegon/
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    Should we keep this group going?

    Any vapers in Oregon please join the Facebook group "VapOregon" here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/vaporegon/ I need your help deciding a location for a meeting on World Vaping Day, March 22nd!
  7. Thulium

    Providence (RI) bans sales of flavored tobacco products (but not menthol cigarettes)

    This ban does not make an exception for menthol or tobacco flavors, either. It only excludes "cigarettes" from the ban on the sale of any tobacco product that "has or produces a characterizing flavor"...Other than the cigarettes that the FDA has already approved or the candy coated drugs that...
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    My letter to the Alabama Governor would like some opinions before I send it

    I think I would like it if that catches on. :rickroll: I am hereby starting the rumor that we've been calling them smokefreEcigarettes all along, but we shortened it to "ecigs" until our lung capacity returned to normal. :matrix:
  9. Thulium

    Nicotine-Cessation Aids Questioned in Study

    Dr. Polito makes some reasonable arguments, but his major shortcoming, like so many, is failing to recognize the difference between smoking cessation and nicotine cessation. NRT's fail to achieve long term smoking cessation because they require medium-term nicotine cessation. By failing to...
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    Get the word out!

    5. Attend a CASAA member meeting and share ideas and get involved. 6. Organize, tell a friend, or simply attend a vape meeting for World Vaping Day, March 22.
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    UCSF bans e-cigarette use where smoking is banned

    How about "Smoke-FreE-Cigarette"? To some extent "smokeless" is associated with old-fashioned tobacco products that pose known health risks. We can turn would-be ANTZ into advocates: "Want smoke-free air? Offer someone who can't or won't quit a SmokefreE-Cigarette." Instead of demanding proof...
  12. Thulium

    Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates and CASAA confront FDA and its TPSAC about risks of different tobacco/nicotine products

    That is why we have such a difficult task: Every individual who works for any of those government agencies and/or pharmaceutical companies KNOWS that they are financially dependent on sales of drugs to treat diseases caused by smoking, but like historical Pharaohs and Caesars have they justified...
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    UCSF bans e-cigarette use where smoking is banned

    Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. From wikipedia: To my knowledge, all studies on e-cigarette to date have failed to detect any PAH in the cartridge or vapor.
  14. Thulium

    UCSF bans e-cigarette use where smoking is banned

    I see the argument from the other side as well, but I think that how incorrect it is does matter: It is based on a misconception (aka a lie) and instead of attempting to correct the problem through education, they magnify it by changing the meanings of words to include things that were never...
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    UCSF bans e-cigarette use where smoking is banned

    As long as it is clear that the whole "problem" is what it looks like. If we follow this logic, all illusions and technologies that "look like" something that is prohibited should be treated as if the prohibited actually occurred. It doesn't matter that you didn't actually saw a woman in half...
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    UCSF bans e-cigarette use where smoking is banned

    Chewing gum is a useful analogy here. How can you tell what sort of chemicals might be in chewing gum? Could it be laced with nicotine or other addictive stimulants like caffeine? Could it have lots of other natural or artificial flavorings that we don't know if they are completely safe...
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    UCSF bans e-cigarette use where smoking is banned

    Unfortunately, it is not that simple. There are already more than a few studies that clearly demonstrate that e-cigs present no known serious health risks. The only studies that have not taken place are the premarket clinical trials proving that a new drug or device is safe and effective for...
  18. Thulium

    “Study finds e-cigarettes affect airways, and quickly”

    It helps to remember that "tobacco research" is a grant goldmine for prospective doctors and bio-engineers: Frequently there is more available grant money for tobacco research than there are good ideas for studies that will teach us something we don't already know without conflicting with the...
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    Riker/Hahn e-cig review article [NCNA]

    "agitation, hostility, depression, or changes in behavior, thinking or mood" are the known effects of varenicline. It's like Auschwitz in a bottle! "Vee have vays of making you talk stop smokink!" Pay no attention to the man behind the black box warning, it's the Nicodemon that runs the...
  20. Thulium

    UCSF bans e-cigarette use where smoking is banned

    I used to agree with the staunchest ANTZ that "addiction is bad, mkay?" and that reducing smoking was so important to improving overall public health that efforts to "denormalize" or at least make tobacco use less "popular" since the health effects of chronic (1PAD or more) smoking outweighed...
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