(ABC News/Health) Electronic Cigarettes: A Safer 'Smoke' or Another Bad Habit?
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Even though this starts off horrible for the first two pages, it's actually a pretty fair article. It's nice to see a major news agency like CBS say that more and more doctors are giving ecigs the thumbs up. Hopefully this is a real trend.
Not too bad if the reader goes past the first couple of pages. I always get a kick out of the teen marketing angle - if a teen is going online and spending hundreds of dollars without the parents' knowledge, then lack of parenting is what they should focus on.
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I just tried posting again. I don't know why I'm not getting through; I've tried several times already? Perhaps I'm being blocked (censored) for no legitimate reason I can think of?
EZ, the kid angle has driven me nuts the last couple days. It all started when the dear state of NJ took three kids from their not too intelligent parents because they named them after Nazis. Their boy is Adolph Hitler whatever the last name is, but the courts upheld child abuse, but never specified other than the stupidity of what they had done.
After reading that and the constant anti's use of the kids to prop up their cause, I think it's high time that the responsibility for the kids should fall back on the parents. After all, if second hand smoke endangers kids, what does bad parenting do? Let's have the organization Campaign for Bad Parent Free Kids take over and insist we get Bad Parents off the market. Ban 'em and if you can't get them to do it right, take the kids from them and let the government raise them the way they know how.
Somehow we'll need to fund this effort. Since we know that bad parenting leads to lost productivity and health risks there should be excise taxes placed on this group. I personally don't want to be paying for their bad habits and I personally find the results of their bad habit affecting me. I say we start insisting that 1. if you have to have kids, you stay out of public property (that includes private businesses of course like malls, etc) to interact with them. 2. Under the no smoking signs, no kid signs should be similarly attached. 3. No kids in public parks and at outdoor events. I don't know how many times a screaming kid has bothered me when I was sitting on a park bench enjoying a smoke (when I smoked).
They've got to start studying the effect of second hand kids. I volunteer in a thrift store. I don't even need to see the kids were there to know they were , you just have to look at the mess they leave in the book area to know it. Of course part of the problem is their bad parents, but you can't even use ventilation systems to correct the damage done.
Okay, enough having fun, but you can make a case for putting the responsibility for what the kids to on their parents.
After reading that and the constant anti's use of the kids to prop up their cause, I think it's high time that the responsibility for the kids should fall back on the parents. After all, if second hand smoke endangers kids, what does bad parenting do? Let's have the organization Campaign for Bad Parent Free Kids take over and insist we get Bad Parents off the market. Ban 'em and if you can't get them to do it right, take the kids from them and let the government raise them the way they know how.
Somehow we'll need to fund this effort. Since we know that bad parenting leads to lost productivity and health risks there should be excise taxes placed on this group. I personally don't want to be paying for their bad habits and I personally find the results of their bad habit affecting me. I say we start insisting that 1. if you have to have kids, you stay out of public property (that includes private businesses of course like malls, etc) to interact with them. 2. Under the no smoking signs, no kid signs should be similarly attached. 3. No kids in public parks and at outdoor events. I don't know how many times a screaming kid has bothered me when I was sitting on a park bench enjoying a smoke (when I smoked).
They've got to start studying the effect of second hand kids. I volunteer in a thrift store. I don't even need to see the kids were there to know they were , you just have to look at the mess they leave in the book area to know it. Of course part of the problem is their bad parents, but you can't even use ventilation systems to correct the damage done.
Okay, enough having fun, but you can make a case for putting the responsibility for what the kids to on their parents.
Personal responsibility and proper parenting; I sort of remember when that was the ideal goal. Now it's the state raising the kids; flashback to Adolfs Germany. Next the kids will be reporting on the activities of the parents!
They already are, that's one of the things stressed to them in school the first day they start. If you see mommy or daddy doing ????, then you come and tell one of your teachers or a policeman.
Or they can just spy on you and your kids while you’re home!
http://www.techeye.net/security/philadelphia-school-had-serial-spy-problems
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Amen. I highly doubt any teen would even have an interest in e-cigs. If a kid had $50,$60,$70 they're gonna go buy a pack of Newports or a dime bag and an Xbox game, they're not gonna sit and order an e-cig.
Personally I think a big part of the difficulty that PVs receive is due purely to the term "e-cig". I'm guilty of using it too, as I did above, but hearing the term "cig" or cigarette just drives alot of people crazy.
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