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    Peach Pits!? Msn E-Cig article 8/16/09

    It morphed in to Zyban not only because of the side effect of decreased smoking....the "new" packaging and name made a bunch of money. Who needs to sell a 20+ year old med with no patent protection unless one can rename it, tweak the ingrediants, and call it a cessation aid for 10-100 times the...
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    Is Tobacco Safer Than Electronic Cigarettes?

    I came, I saw, I dugg! :)
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    EVENT ALERT - Court Hearing on E-Cigarettes [8/17] // Ruling Could Determine Fate of Controversial Nicotine Product

    Ahhhhh! I hate to be a downer but...retail venders and entertainment venues across this land did not prevail...users did not prevail...big buck companies did not prevail...against the current regime of anti-smoking. Business owners of private property are not free to choose what clientele to...
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    genie pigs

    Love the picture! I submit that naysayers believe the image above is what's filling our carts thru it's posterior...or the winged bank is representative of profits flying away for cessation aids! :D
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    can you get pneumonia from vapor?

    Pneumonia is an infection of the lung that can be caused by nearly any class of organism known to cause human infections. These include bacteria, amoebae, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Further, pneumonia can be a result of an overwhelmed immune system when underlying factors remain untreated or...
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    EVENT ALERT - Court Hearing on E-Cigarettes [8/17] // Ruling Could Determine Fate of Controversial Nicotine Product

    Once upon a time...I believed the truth would win out and ASH would be a memory...until I found that ASH and there ilk actually created the truth. Heck, the American Legacy foundation have a copyright license for the word Truth. I disagree that ASH is on the run, though I wish it were true...at...
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    ASH funding from Pfizer

    The RWJF actually gave a grant to the AMA who provided the charity with a list of recipients before the grant was....granted!:) Oldie but goodie: Coordinating Committee Fights to Prevent Tobacco Use by Youth - Grant Results Reports - RWJF On this page you can see the length of the...
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    Peach Pits!? Msn E-Cig article 8/16/09

    The peach pit may be a reference laetrile as it pertains to a cancer treatment that was controversial and atributed to the placebo effect. I take particular professional umbrage to this passage from the article: "Genetics may contribute one day to further improving the odds of quitting. A...
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    ASH Claims Vaping in Public Will Cause Addiction

    On a single issue yes, and I will fight for the right to vape. But my patience of the failure to learn from the past and current trend analyses is sometimes sorely tested. The human condition, I know, and yet I persevere as we all do. The same can be said for those who fail to see the forest...
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    ASH Claims Vaping in Public Will Cause Addiction

    Hey Big Jim, this is funny when one considers that smokers CAN donate their heart and other organs to nonsmokers. Even lungs!:)
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    ASH Claims Vaping in Public Will Cause Addiction

    If the e-cig missed opportunities to curry favor with "acceptable" groups and have by their mere existence initiated the wrath of organizations against the product...I suppose that means what....? Hindsight is easy, predicting and planning for the future...a tad more difficult. ASH already had...
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    Aclu?

    WTH...predisposition to nicotine in our genes? This even surpasses the "nicotine madness" hyperbole in the media. Sorry to disagree so indelicately but this type of rhetoric can not be ignored lest we bear idiotic addicted children helpless to the coding of their genes to a drug. This theory was...
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    ASH Claims Vaping in Public Will Cause Addiction

    Check out the funding to ASH from Pfizer at: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/e-cigarette-news/32488-ash-funding-pfizer.html Some other beneficiaries: ASH - $100,000 (2nd quarter) for smoking issues. American Lung Association - $1,550,000 (2nd quarter) for cessation. American...
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    EVENT ALERT - Court Hearing on E-Cigarettes [8/17] // Ruling Could Determine Fate of Controversial Nicotine Product

    No one can post the link because Smokey Joe was smart enough to see the damage the info could cause.;)
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    EVENT ALERT - Court Hearing on E-Cigarettes [8/17] // Ruling Could Determine Fate of Controversial Nicotine Product

    Who enacted the 1st national smoking ban as well as a little known program called eugenics. Ve haf vays of making you comply.:D
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    Inform Tobacco Smokers

    Seminolewind, your perspective is refreshing and I thank you for it. But what is MB? Pardon my ignorance of web language (I even had to look up OP) but I can find no reference to MB. :)
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    ASH funding from Pfizer

    Her's another link to ASH and Pfizer seperate from the grant: US Medical, Scientific, Patient and Civic Organization Funding Report: Second Quarter 2009 ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH Tobacco Control Research and Education $100,000...
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    ASH funding from Pfizer

    Great find...keep in mind Pfizer makes Chantix.
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    EVENT ALERT - Court Hearing on E-Cigarettes [8/17] // Ruling Could Determine Fate of Controversial Nicotine Product

    Banzhaf is brilliant and creative to boot. As a teacher in a prestigious school he gets the best and the brightest to aid him in his endeavors. He has many loyal followers and friends in high places. This guy has an office on K street and access to a very powerful lobby. Further, Banzhaf...