A nine year olds standpoint

[Lilacs212too]

So, my nine year old daughter was reading over my shoulder this morning as I was reading the forum with my coffee and 510, before making our way out to the bus stop, and says..

"so they will let them die?"

(I was reading a post on the eGo and attys, nothing to do with dying)..

I said, "what??"

She pointed to someone's banner, you know the one that a lot of members have that says something like STOP the ecigarette ban, and says "what would people do if they stopped smoking Stella's?" (I named my 510 Stella, don't ask lol)

I said.. "they would probably start smoking regular cigarettes again"

She replies, "So they will let them die?"

I never knew she thought of smoking analogs as dying. And I didn't think it would be so obvious to a nine year old. Yet people with degrees are trying to ban. Very sad.

 

[YKruss]

Even a child could realize what FDA and cogort are trying to do by imposing the ban.

 

[5cardstud]

Sounds like this 9yr. old has more brains than the entire FDA. They need to hire her to run the agency. It's plain she would do a better job. But then Tabacco Co. and Pharm. would be offering her money.

 

[Lilacs212too]

I told her it's all about the money in the governments pocket.. But I know now that when they try and pass a bill here in Virginia, I will be bringing her to the senates office! Oh.. and it was the same banner you have!

 

[cliff5550]

Now THAT is one special and insightful young lady.

 

[StormFinch]

What a smart little girl.

Personally, if she was mine I would ask if she would like to write a letter I could send to everyone yelling that it's "all for the children". Wouldn't that be a swift kick in the pants?

 

[tazzmann]

My wife and I were talking in the kitchen the other day and my 9 year old son was listening in from the living room. We were talking about the FDA and the e-cig ban and what would happen if they banned e-cigs. I told my wife it would be very hard for me NOT to go back to tobacco. After a few seconds my son jumped up and ran upstairs. Wondering what was wrong, I went up stairs and he was sitting on his bed crying and praying. After he finished I asked what was wrong and he said he prayed to God to keep the FDA from killing his daddy. I was stunned and didn't know what to say, so I just held him for a little while.

Now, thinking back on it, I don't think I would be able to go back to smoking no matter what after seeing him like that.

Kids are smarter and more perceptive than we give them credit for.


tazz

 

[Lilacs212too]

Now, thinking back on it, I don't think I would be able to go back to smoking no matter what after seeing him like that.

Kids are smarter and more perceptive than we give them credit for.


tazz

It makes me kind of sick to my stomach to think that all this time she looked at me like I was killing myself. Looks like our nine year olds know more than I did when I thought it was "cool" to start smoking all those years ago. But like you, it makes me that much more determined to not go back to analogs. Many think our job as parents is to teach our kids, but I learned a whole lot from mine this morning, and now from yours, tazz.

 

[cliff5550]

ECIGS
FDA= They give kids the idea to smoke.
REALITY= They give kids hope for their parents.

 

[StormFinch]

It makes me kind of sick to my stomach to think that all this time she looked at me like I was killing myself. Looks like our nine year olds know more than I did when I thought it was "cool" to start smoking all those years ago. But like you, it makes me that much more determined to not go back to analogs. Many think our job as parents is to teach our kids, but I learned a whole lot from mine this morning, and now from yours, tazz.

Wanna hear something completely messed up? I looked at my grandparents exactly the same way at nine, scared to death that they were going to die from smoking. By fourteen I had one stuck in my mouth... how quickly we forget. My theory is that as babies we know everything but forget it the older we get. By the time the hormones kick in we're completely brain dead.

 

[jj2]

I read a post to a newsletter way back where some kid asked why the bad people wanted her grandma to die.

 

[Slickstick]

This post is excellent and I hope in the near future we can somehow be lucky enough to get some videos of these experiences. I would love to see them!

 

[Lilacs212too]

This post is excellent and I hope in the near future we can somehow be lucky enough to get some videos of these experiences. I would love to see them!

If only I had the webcam going! Or wait. No. It was first thing in the morning.. first cup of coffee.. wouldn't have been nice. But I am thinking that letter to the powers that be would be a good idea!

 

[lonercom]

Definitely. Handwritten from kids to ... Well, how about some appeals court judges.