Well, I was sorry to hear about [your wife] saying let me try that or that [your son] did! But the truth is that shes an adult and can make that kind of grown up decision on her own.
I encourage you to do a little more research before you go off on such a rant or send something like that to a newspaper. Really? slobbering cigarette addict? Do you follow the just quit or die ideology? Do you realize how many people DIE every year because of cigarettes? Estimated 400,000! That includes slobbering cigarette addicts that are just normal people like you with families, jobs, and have just as much right to live as you but the difference is that they have a deadly habit that they cant get rid of.
Is this device healthier? Undeniably so even by the FDA!
Are they completely safe? No! But they are not marketed as such either.
Is further research and regulation needed on these devices? Absolutely, but do you think I should just start smoking again in the mean time? I tried quitting, it never lasted. I havent had or felt the need for a cigarette in over three months. That is the longest Ive ever gone.
Nicotine is more addictive than ...... and ....... but did you know that it also has medicinal properties that show that it increases concentration and memory and
nicotine is being researched to fight Alzheimers, depression, and ADD? Yeah kids getting nicotine because they got ants in their pants. Further studies are being also being done to prove what, if any, harmful effects come solely from the nicotine versus the nicotine when inhaled in cigarette smoke. Increased blood pressure and heart rate? Yeah but you get that from chocolate, caffeine, and sex too!
Not safer than second hand smoke? it took decades and millions of dollars of studies
Please check your facts on that.
Heres a link to get you started but there are plenty more. Your rant seems to be more directed at the habit than the actual problem or any real concern about second hand smoke. It seems that you just dont like seeing anyone that looks like they are smoking in your presence. So what you are saying is that we need government to ban that? How about public display of affection too, or dancing, or whistling a merry tune on a Monday morning? Im sure someone, somewhere gets bothered by those things even if they dont harm anyone else. I agree that the vapers that take the In your Face attitude are not helping change anyones opinion on these devices and that itll be a long time (if ever) before that opinion goes away. Dr. Elizabeth Whelan is president of the American Council on Science and Health and is not a traitorous doctors with an agenda. Read her comments regarding the e-cig at
ACSH.ORG.
As for the save the children argument, do you consider yourself a failure as a parent because your children started smoking? What if your kids became alcoholics instead? Would we all be safer living in a dry county? Surely alcohol is the devil too, right? Or maybe kids that develop eating disorders and become obese? The government should ban junk food and close down all of those McDonalds! Do you have any idea the number of commercials for that kind of crap food come on Nickelodeon? These devices are not marketed to non-smokers or children any more than apple flavored vodka jello shots or strawberry daiquiris are marketed for kids. Unfortunately, those vices (and of course traditional cigarettes) are much easier to come by than an expensive electronic cigarette that requires about a $100 initial investment and actual work to clean and maintain in order for it to continue to work. Why bother when they can buy a pack of smokes for less than $10?
Yes! Kids do look up to the example set by their parents as well as other adults but I dont think of my parents as being failures because of the choices I make that they disagree with. A kid is going to want to be more grown up and do what they see grown ups do no matter what. Its not the governments job to be my kids parents.
Sadly, legislation just recently passed for the FDA to actually have jurisdiction over tobacco. This is going to lure even More people into picking up this bad habit because it gives the false sense of security that
cigarettes are now FDA Approved. Maybe [your wife] will buy a pack of Marlboros next since they are safer now that the FDA regulates those? Outlawed the same as normal cigarettes will never ever happen. Unfortunately, there already is legislation in place that protects the tobacco companies and, even with the new authority granted to the FDA, they will never go away. Besides, government would lose billions of tax dollars if tobacco was ever outlawed and there are too many lobbyist that are in Big Tobacco and Big Phams pockets to let that ever happen anyway.
The FDA study confirms what other independent studies have shown in that these devices allow smokers an alternative to cigarettes that do not cause obnoxious second hand smoke smell, they do not contain anywhere near any of the harmful additives or carcinogens found in traditional cigarettes, and in fact are comparable to the same chemicals found in FDA approved NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) like the patch, lozenge, and gum. The big difference is that those devices/methods only offer about a 7% success rate. So far these devices offer a much higher success rate for smokers to quit using cigarettes.
Heres one recent source but there are literally hundreds more testimonials available online including my own.
That you would compare these devices to the Devil, Stalin, and Hitler really shocked me and the more I re-read your proposed editorial the more ridiculous it sounds with these types of references.
Best regards!
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