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  1. Fulgurant

    Are they serious...50 years of progress cuts smoking rates in half

    The alternative title just didn't have the same ring to it: "30 years of progress cut smoking rates in half, then 20 years of corrupt stupidity accomplished absolutely nothing worthwhile, but who wants smoking rates at zero anyway?" What's striking about the history of the anti-smoking...
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    The BMJ-"Hold the line against Tobacco"

    Worse, she didn't specify her credentials. Unless she's edited it since yesterday, Ms. Scheiber described herself simply as, "PhD, scientist, retired." And if her background really is in geology, then her vague self-description is not only misleading; it's a lie, because no respectable...
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    CEO of American Lung Association article on CNN smears E-cigarettes

    The overall theme of the article is ok with you, even though basically every assertion in the piece is flat-out wrong or deliberately misleading? If our opposition doesn't exist, then why do people who claim to have an interest in cancer prevention lie so often about e-cigarettes? Please read...
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    The BMJ-"Hold the line against Tobacco"

    Yeah, Scheiber's commentary is hilariously bad: even if her assertions about the toxicity of nicotine were accurate, her conclusion doesn't follow from those assertions. "Nicotine is toxic in such-and-such quantities; it's more poisonous than arsenic; therefore nicotine is the most harmful...
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    FDA opens comment periods on two issues regarding Substantial Equivalence Requirements

    The generic reasons for denying applications are pretty discouraging. Of particular interest are the notes on predicates, flavors, and ingredients (constituents): http://www.fda.gov/downloads/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/MarketingandAdvertising/UCM366584.pdf The new Tobacco chief at FDA (Mitch...
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    FDA opens comment periods on two issues regarding Substantial Equivalence Requirements

    Do you have a specific argument to make vis-a-vis CASAA and its supporters, or do you suppose it's constructive to sit on the sidelines, spewing content-free ad hominems? Simply calling people closeminded, without condescending to support the accusation or even to comment on the subject at...
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    GoodNews!

    20 years forced to read self-indulgent forum posts written by paranoid megalomaniacs? Oh, crap, that was a sentence fragment -- a cruel-and-unusual sentence fragment, even!
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    Urgent Message: State of Oklahoma Bank Cards Being Declined for Vape Shops

    You wouldn't think a bank would alienate customers on a whim or even on an ideological basis, though. I have to imagine that someone, somewhere, gave these banks the idea that they had to apply the the PACT act to e-cig vendors to cover their backsides, if not to comply the letter of the law...
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    MsTs Bakery Updates

    Correct. The date of that post is 11/24/2011. The post resides in an archived sub-forum that hasn't been active since 11/05/2013. Maybe somehow the forum software displayed the date of the Ms T's forum's demise instead of the date of the post?
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    New Vapors giving ammunition to anti-vapor stigmas?????

    Hehe, it's impossible to express -50 F in any sensible way! :tongue: (-45 degrees celcius.)
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    New Vapors giving ammunition to anti-vapor stigmas?????

    Ohhhh, yes, Wisconsin. Been there quite a bit. You know it's cold when you're cleaning your windshield of salt residue, and the Windex freezes. We've got nothin' on you in Philly. :) Please stay safe. We kinda need ya. :)
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    New Vapors giving ammunition to anti-vapor stigmas?????

    Hey Ed! Not much, hiding from the snow. :) Hope y'all had a happy and safe New Years. Even J-dub. ;)
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    New Vapors giving ammunition to anti-vapor stigmas?????

    My house is 200 years old, and I assure you it's very drafty well ventilated. :)
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    Why the FDA can NOT make illegal E-Cigs (false concern), Usage Bans in Public are the REAL problem

    Corruption thrives in the dark. It shrivels when exposed, at least for as long as we have the pretense of living in a free society, anyway. In other words, it's not a contradiction to say, on the one hand, that corrupt (or if you prefer, corruptible) officials wield massive power over us, but...
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    Nicotine poisoning rockets mid e-cig battle

    I understand the policy, and I think it's a good one in principle, but it does seem to create confusion -- links broken that shouldn't be, links correctly broken but posted under damning thread titles, links broken in so many places that you need half an hour and a microscope to turn them into...
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    Nicotine poisoning rockets mid e-cig battle

    We also have a ragtag group of ewoks, former smugglers, and orphaned farm boys.
  17. Fulgurant

    GREAT article on the toxicity of nicotine!!

    Do you not have an emotional attachment to the notion of justice? Do you not grow angry when those in power (or those who would be in power) act unjustly? Do you suppose that our most sacred principles of law and morality have no root in emotion? When I say that one may touch on emotion, I am...
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    Wonderful article and testimonials on CliveBates.com

    Love that guy. Thanks for the link.
  19. Fulgurant

    GREAT article on the toxicity of nicotine!!

    Appeals to emotion can be fair. In fact, they are sometimes crucial, because the concept of justice is inextricably linked to emotion. Therefore most any judgment of what should be done about this-or-that issue must at least touch upon emotion. Emotional appeals are only fallacious when they...
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    Nicotine poisoning rockets mid e-cig battle

    The quote you've excerpted is astoundingly brazen in its disregard for basic reasoning: first, the author mentions that one child died, which is at least a verifiable fact even if we don't know the exact circumstances leading to the death. Then, before the audience has a chance to catch its...
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