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    in the saint paul pioneer press today

    In the same place the outrage skulks, undernourished and unemployed, when those same self-proclaimed populists advocate taxes on cigarettes, fuel, alcohol, food products. If you find it, let me know, because from where I'm sitting, it sure doesn't look like populist outrage actually exists...
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    Why Do People Buy Cheap Junk???

    There are three broad criteria that consumers use to determine whether they'll make a purchase: quality, cost, and convenience/service. At best, you can typically hope to satisfy two of those criteria. Often, one is enough. Asking why people buy cheap products is therefore akin to asking...
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    Is there such thing as secondhand vapor? This must have been asked before.

    Short answer: no. Slightly longer answer: Only to the extent that there are such things as second-hand perfume or second-hand cooking. Longer longer answer: Toxicology analyses indicate that vapor is well within OSHA air-quality standards even for the primary user, so any risk to bystanders...
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    Senate Democrats Introduce Bill to Stifle eCig Marketing

    Done. /10 characters
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    Is the FDA Really Not the One to Worry About .. ?

    Heh, it may be a fact of life, but the majority most certainly does not have a right to enforce its whims upon the minority. You called it a right; I responded. There is a subtle but crucial difference between rights and capabilities -- a distinction that comprises the highest and most...
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    Is the FDA Really Not the One to Worry About .. ?

    I'm 36. Virtually all of my male peers, and probably half of my female friends in high school and college smoked at least casually. Many smoked very casually, and I certainly wouldn't characterize them as smokers, but they were quite familiar with what it is to smoke a cigarette. Now which...
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    Coming to a restaurant near you

    There is a certain perverse consolation in the fact that at least the above-pictured sign acknowledges vaping as distinct from smoking.
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    Dr. Siegal's blog - Child custody and THS (third hand smoke) + vaping study of "THS"

    Yes, but constant press releases about third-hand vapor suggest to the public that the danger posed by SHV is beyond dispute. Any pro-vape expert responding on that topic must be very careful, as you say. It would be very easy for a careless/corrupt interviewer to discard any sensible...
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    Dr. Siegal's blog - Child custody and THS (third hand smoke) + vaping study of "THS"

    Good catch. By skipping straight to a debate about third-hand vapor, the public health cabal can force us implicitly to concede that second-hand vapor is a legitimate concern. It's likely no accident, by way of example, that we're hearing more about third-hand smoke now that second-hand...
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    Can we stop calling regular cigs "Analogs"?

    Yep. Language doesn't develop by fiat.
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    TN Dept. of Health issues advisory on electronic cigarettes -

    Unknown facts are significant until they become known, in which case they become tobacco-industry propaganda. And seriously, formaldehyde? I didn't think even the most rabid ANTZ still had the gall to use that transparent canard in front of a halfway reasonable audience. My favorite, though...
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    TN Dept. of Health issues advisory on electronic cigarettes -

    Please break the link, and provide a blurb or an excerpt so that interested parties don't have to give that article click traffic. Suffice to say that the TN Dept of Health is full of nonsense.
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    VG/PG - Does it matter for newbies?

    Pretty much mirrors my experience. High-PG ratios (70/30 or 80/20) are the industry default, probably because they're viewed as friendlier to new vapors -- more intense flavor, more throat hit, faster wicking. But as time passes (after quitting cigarettes), your taste buds will reawaken, and...
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    Petition: Democratic (or ex-Dem) voters to Democratic Party: STOP THAT!

    Fun comments. The user calling himself LakeSuperior is a gigantic idiot. He keeps complaining that pro-ecig arguments are anti-science, but his only counterargument is an appeal to authority. If only he knew how anti-science the public health authorities are.
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    Harkin, Waxman, Welch Urge State Attorneys General to Bring E-Cigarettes Under Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement

    Yeah, on its face, the notion of attorneys general forcibly adding new parties, selling entirely new products, to an already established settlement agreement seems like nonsense -- but I confess I'm not well acquainted with all the particulars. I imagine that this request has more to do with...
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    Interesting article: Let's Not Wage War on Smokers

    Dynamite from the comments:
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    Dems propose ban on ecigs????

    "A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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    CVS To Stop Selling Tobacco, Sacrificing $2 Billion In Sales

    It isn't obvious that smokers cost society more than society gains from cigarette tax revenue, from smoking-related insurance fees, and most controversially, from smokers' dying and thus removing themselves prematurely from the Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and general healthcare systems...
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    CVS To Stop Selling Tobacco, Sacrificing $2 Billion In Sales

    Heh, great point. I had already decided not to shop at my local CVS simply because of their automated checkout process, which annoys me to no end. One thing's certain: CVS isn't stopping sales on cigarettes out of the goodness of its heart. CVS believes that it will profit, long-term, from...
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    Vermont legislation (H 632) would ban the sale and possession of e-cigarettes by adults

    LOL. It's no shock that the state with the 9th highest cigarette tax (92% over the US median) would move directly against e-cigs without threatening traditional tobacco cigarettes. What's surprising is the refreshing lack of prevarication about the whole thing. "Yeah, we're banning e-cigs...
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