If one goes down, we all go down. We may not be able to stop the FDA at this point, but we CAN make a difference in our own back yards - and it starts in Suffolk Co, NY. It's a slippery slope, folks - one slides and they all follow! These email campaigns DO WORK - we do them all of the time in real estate lobbying for home owners.
Please copy and paste this into your email. Fill in the blanks with your name and email to the email address below. If we can stop this ban in Suffolk, it could sway public opinion and even help with the FDA. Only by showing our true numbers will we make any impact! It just takes a minute - stop whining and DO SOMETHING! (Even if you aren't in the US - please send an email to help fellow PVers!)
Please also see this thread: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/campaigning/33399-pro-active-email-campaign-easy-quick.html
Send to:
county.executive@suffolkcountyny.gov
Dear Mr. Levy,
My name is _____________________.
Phone:____________________________
Note: Including your address and phone number will make you more "real" and show your not some campaign "bot."
Please copy and paste this into your email. Fill in the blanks with your name and email to the email address below. If we can stop this ban in Suffolk, it could sway public opinion and even help with the FDA. Only by showing our true numbers will we make any impact! It just takes a minute - stop whining and DO SOMETHING! (Even if you aren't in the US - please send an email to help fellow PVers!)
Please also see this thread: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/campaigning/33399-pro-active-email-campaign-easy-quick.html
Send to:
county.executive@suffolkcountyny.gov
Dear Mr. Levy,
My name is _____________________.
I am writing you today, to ask you to give extra special consideration to the ramifications of a ban on electric cigarettes in Suffolk County.
On the surface, it seems a reasonable course of action, but it ignores the larger picture. By limiting the accessibility of nicotine inhalers, you push every ex-smoker back towards cigarettes - a proven killer.
You must understand that every electric cigarette user is one less person creating second-hand smoke in open public spaces. One less person leaving their loved ones to go outside and smoke. One less person exposed to the hundreds of toxic ingredients, as with cigarette smoking or second hand smoke in the smoking areas. One less person contributing to the health and insurance crisis in the U.S. today.
You must understand that every electric cigarette user is one less person creating second-hand smoke in open public spaces. One less person leaving their loved ones to go outside and smoke. One less person exposed to the hundreds of toxic ingredients, as with cigarette smoking or second hand smoke in the smoking areas. One less person contributing to the health and insurance crisis in the U.S. today.
By moving too quickly, to ban these life-saving devices, you will push every e-cigarette user that has successfully moved away from tobacco smoking back into the poisonous cloud. These devices may not have proven medical benefits, but anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that they allow a bearable transition from tobacco smoking - to the point where doctors have recommended them as alternatives to smoking. Even in the event of continued e-cigarette use, e-cigarettes obviously don't contain nearly the number of harmful substances that tobacco cigarettes do. And while the health benefits are more obvious, the other life-saving changes are not. E-cigarettes give us our life back. No more huddling out in the cold. No more disappointing our friends and family or exposing them to harmful smoke. No more wasted time running out for a smoke break. Reduced cost allows for more disposable income. No more embarrassing smell or discolored teeth and nails.
The device puts off very little vapor and odor, unlike tobacco cigarettes. You probably wouldn't be able to smell it over all of the other odors in the room - such as colognes and perfumes, foods and body odors. To ban them because they bother others in the room is simply an assumption and not fact. More people object to the fact that they look like smoking and not the actual vapors, which they most likely can't even smell.
To make non-smoking, e-cigarette users sit outside with smokers is putting OUR health at risk, as well. And setting this example, gives the impression that these life-changing and life-saving devices are bad enough to be banned from the room and opens the door for other misconceptions and legislation against electric cigarettes altogether. What good could come from that, other than thousands of personal vapor users going back to tobacco smoking and causing addional second hand smoke, medical and insurance costs and sad families?
Please, Mr. Levy, don't believe this witch-hunting story that is being sold to you. Talk to doctors. Talk to us. Talk to our elated families, who also fear what this legislation will bring back upon us. Don't set this precedent, which others will follow, effectively signing our death warrants.
Sincerely,
Name: _____________________________
Address:______________________________________________________________Phone:____________________________
Note: Including your address and phone number will make you more "real" and show your not some campaign "bot."
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I just posted the form letter, because I know some people don't want to or can't take the time to write something out. But people can write their own letters, of course!
