very interesting, Bill, thank you for posting this!
And yes, cigarette sales are real figures. To be reported honestly to shareholders and the IRS.
Whereas "smoking rates" can be manipulated in accordance with the desired outcome.
My pleasure. Clive Bates blog is a good one to follow for current news on such matters.
Oh yeah, I saw the non-nicotine containing devices. WTH??? Now, my grandma always used to advise me to inhale chamomille tea vapor over a bowl, against bronchitis. I wonder if that vapor will be included in...
I was expecting this kind of retort. That Pharma works for profit.
Of course they do. And what about their buddies, the WHO?
The WHO was quick to declare a swine flu "pandemic" - which caused goverments to stockpile vaccines and useless drugs like Tamiflu (approx as effective as Aspirin...
Here is the original text of that horrible WHO document aimed at protecting tobacco cigarettes - and pharma profits - from the competition by the much less harmful e-cigarettes :
http://www.clivebates.com/documents/COP6ENDSFinal.pdf
prohibit e-cigs in order to protect public health. I call...
I cannot say what I think of the evil doings of those deathmongering pharma shills. It would not be printable.
This is what Professor Gerry Stimson says:
Professor Gerry Stimson – reaction to WHO FCTC position on e-cigarettes (ENDS) « The counterfactual
read on...
17 Oct 2014: Big pharma has an interest in rich people being sick (The Guardian)
What profit is there in a healthy population? If everyone were healthy, it would be the job of the pharmaceutical companies to persuade us that we were not well...
@Kent C.:
yup.
Not to forget that "organizations" like Tobacco Free Kids are the real astroturf. They are 100% paid by grants from the Pharmafia. Everything that they say and do comes directly from their paymasters.
And yeah, ad hominem attacks are the last resort of those whose alleged...
oh my goodness gracious.
Now, limiting the power of e-cigs to the effectiveness of NRT.. hm... I do not think that would be such a good idea.
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"the power of e-cigarettes" - courtesy of Carl Phillips, CASAA. I love that expression! It perfectly replaces the term "effectiveness" which...
I do not have the link, unfortunately.
But I have found the good news that the FDA has refused to remove the Black Box warning from Chantix: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/media-general-news/615081-16-oct-2014-fda-panel-votes-keep-severe-warning-pfizer-anti-smoking-drug.html
Glad...
16 Oct 2014: FDA panel votes to keep severe warning on Pfizer anti-smoking drug
FDA panel votes to keep severe warning on Pfizer anti-smoking drug
Good!
It might have looked just a little.. weird.. to continue demonizing e-cigs (that have killed nobody) and then to remove the Black Box...
Yeah, I have seen this crap - here : Twitter "astroturfing" undermining public health initiatives? Say it ain't so!
Many good comments. The best comment to my mind - and I think that this person speaks for all of us:
By the way:
for us in Europe, this "astroturf" nonsense is nothing new...
Health? BAH! State governments are addicted to smoking. Trying to destroy e-cigarettes to feed their own addiction - their addiction to tax money.
15 Oct 2014: Vaping for Tax Freedom E-cigarettes have exposed the fraud of public-health advocates
Vaping for Tax Freedom | National Review Online
Hm... so some organization that syphons off tax money to feed itself, some organization that is supposed to be working for "health" (haha) and holds a nice expensive little all-expenses paid vacation while over 4000 people have died of Ebola , this organization removes the public (those...
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