The east Alabama Medical Center is on the attack today via their Direction of Health Promotions and Disease Management Kathe Briggs. Ms briggs in an ignoramus who said in the following news article
http://www.wsfa.com/story/28099518/through-with-chew-week-campaign-kicks-off-monday
"E-cigarettes also contain tobacco, but they contain other ingredients that we really haven't studied, so they're not FDA approved, there isn't research, there isn't evidence based literature out there to prove they can be used as a substitute for regular cigarettes,"
It would seem Ms Briggs or the Center itself, for which she is a mouthpiece is jumping on board the Truth distortion train along with California, Washington state and others to not merely lie about ecigs but to protect the status quo of percentage of the American population that smokes because they derive so much money from tobacco sales, from treatment of tobacco/nicotine addiction and the disease and death they cause.
There is no money in a cure so the saying says, only in the treatment. The East Alabama Medical Center is launching its Through with Chew week this coming Monday the 16th of February, a campaign aimed at reducing the use of all types of smokeless tobacco. This very action is an attack on science and common sense. This organisation might just as well launch a campaign to cease clean needle programmes and condom distribution by launching this campaign. Smokeless tobacco, Snus, Snuff, Dissolvables and yes, Electronic Cigarettes, are all Harm Reduction products which at this generation of evolution, have the same inherent danger as prescribed or over the counter NRT, that is to say, no harm whatsoever to the user and even less so to the general public who might, other than it being pointed out to them, not have any idea a person was using it at all.
Kathe Briggs needs to be educated about smokeless tobacco but we cannot assume that she made her statement in ignorance. No one working in any field of medicine or public health has the excuse of not knowing something in this day and age, not when you can easily look stuff up for yourself. To be uninformed is to make the choice to be ignorant. Ms briggs is a mouthpiece and her employers need to pay a price for the real harm they are going to do to public health by launching this campaign of idiocy.
Ignorance begets ignorance. This campaign will inform people who have made a better choice for themselves, for their health, that of their friends and family, that they were wrong and should they not be able to use NRT to cease nicotine use, then they might as well go back to using combustable tobacco. It spreads ignorance of smokeless tobacco products so that no one will make the choice to try them and possibly reduce the harm they do themselves of those around them. It is an affront to public health and basic human decency to spread these kinds of lies and it must be stopped.
Please find below links to not merely Kathe Briggs on social media in order to educate her but also to her employers, those behind this campaign. Complain about her words to the general public and of the campaign itself. Counter the lies being spread by this so called Medical Center. Counter all lies with the #Truth Question where their funding comes from and why they would do this. Are they receiving any MSA money? Do they get any American Tax payer funding? Do they receive any Pharmaceutical company funding, if so, who?
Kathe Briggs
https://twitter.com/katheathome
https://www.facebook.com/kathe.k.briggs
EAMC (East Alabama Medical Center)
http://danc.eamc.org/
https://www.eamc.org/
https://www.eamc.org/patientsVisitors/patientfeedback.aspx < Complaints
https://twitter.com/EAMC_Careers (only twitter known for them)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diabetes-and-Nutrition-Center-of-EAMC/142911009141931
Author of the news segment & contact info
http://www.wtvm.com/story/19608533/2012/09/21/anni
Station that ran the story & their contact info
http://www.wsfa.com/story/881639/contact-us-by-email
Tobacco Harm Reduction Science
http://casaa.org/Tobacco_Harm_Reduction.html
Ecig Science Resources
http://casaa.org/Electronic_Cigarettes.html
Smokeless Tobacco Product basics
http://casaa.org/Smokefree_Types.html
Delve within the links and find the ammunition. Theres plenty of it in there, tons of science and studies to send links to these people. Thank you to Autumn for the background contact information for Kathe Briggs and EAMC.
#AdvocateForYourVape
BSP
http://www.wsfa.com/story/28099518/through-with-chew-week-campaign-kicks-off-monday
"E-cigarettes also contain tobacco, but they contain other ingredients that we really haven't studied, so they're not FDA approved, there isn't research, there isn't evidence based literature out there to prove they can be used as a substitute for regular cigarettes,"
It would seem Ms Briggs or the Center itself, for which she is a mouthpiece is jumping on board the Truth distortion train along with California, Washington state and others to not merely lie about ecigs but to protect the status quo of percentage of the American population that smokes because they derive so much money from tobacco sales, from treatment of tobacco/nicotine addiction and the disease and death they cause.
There is no money in a cure so the saying says, only in the treatment. The East Alabama Medical Center is launching its Through with Chew week this coming Monday the 16th of February, a campaign aimed at reducing the use of all types of smokeless tobacco. This very action is an attack on science and common sense. This organisation might just as well launch a campaign to cease clean needle programmes and condom distribution by launching this campaign. Smokeless tobacco, Snus, Snuff, Dissolvables and yes, Electronic Cigarettes, are all Harm Reduction products which at this generation of evolution, have the same inherent danger as prescribed or over the counter NRT, that is to say, no harm whatsoever to the user and even less so to the general public who might, other than it being pointed out to them, not have any idea a person was using it at all.
Kathe Briggs needs to be educated about smokeless tobacco but we cannot assume that she made her statement in ignorance. No one working in any field of medicine or public health has the excuse of not knowing something in this day and age, not when you can easily look stuff up for yourself. To be uninformed is to make the choice to be ignorant. Ms briggs is a mouthpiece and her employers need to pay a price for the real harm they are going to do to public health by launching this campaign of idiocy.
Ignorance begets ignorance. This campaign will inform people who have made a better choice for themselves, for their health, that of their friends and family, that they were wrong and should they not be able to use NRT to cease nicotine use, then they might as well go back to using combustable tobacco. It spreads ignorance of smokeless tobacco products so that no one will make the choice to try them and possibly reduce the harm they do themselves of those around them. It is an affront to public health and basic human decency to spread these kinds of lies and it must be stopped.
Please find below links to not merely Kathe Briggs on social media in order to educate her but also to her employers, those behind this campaign. Complain about her words to the general public and of the campaign itself. Counter the lies being spread by this so called Medical Center. Counter all lies with the #Truth Question where their funding comes from and why they would do this. Are they receiving any MSA money? Do they get any American Tax payer funding? Do they receive any Pharmaceutical company funding, if so, who?
Kathe Briggs
https://twitter.com/katheathome
https://www.facebook.com/kathe.k.briggs
EAMC (East Alabama Medical Center)
http://danc.eamc.org/
https://www.eamc.org/
https://www.eamc.org/patientsVisitors/patientfeedback.aspx < Complaints
https://twitter.com/EAMC_Careers (only twitter known for them)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diabetes-and-Nutrition-Center-of-EAMC/142911009141931
Author of the news segment & contact info
http://www.wtvm.com/story/19608533/2012/09/21/anni
Station that ran the story & their contact info
http://www.wsfa.com/story/881639/contact-us-by-email
Tobacco Harm Reduction Science
http://casaa.org/Tobacco_Harm_Reduction.html
Ecig Science Resources
http://casaa.org/Electronic_Cigarettes.html
Smokeless Tobacco Product basics
http://casaa.org/Smokefree_Types.html
Delve within the links and find the ammunition. Theres plenty of it in there, tons of science and studies to send links to these people. Thank you to Autumn for the background contact information for Kathe Briggs and EAMC.
#AdvocateForYourVape
BSP
