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ANR lies about e-cigarettes to try confusing and scaring public, calls for banning e-cigarette use indoors
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Thank you. Interesting speaker panel for that event. Read all the blurbs, key word seems to be control.
Here is an interview with her from 2001, as far as I can tell they are going after E-cigs with the same four step plan they used against analogs.
Philippe Boucher's Rendez-vous with . . . Cynthia Hallett, MPH
One local government at a time seems to be the way they are attacking us now.
Philippe Boucher's Rendez-vous with . . . Cynthia Hallett, MPH
One local government at a time seems to be the way they are attacking us now.
The FDA and CDC predict that by 2020, smoking will be banned in every restaurant, bar, and non-hospitality workplace in America. I fear that the same will come of e-cigs if we don't stand up now.
Hypocrites! First they claim that there has not been an adequate study about the "secondhand vapor" of e-cigarettes, and then they claim that the vapor is toxic and full of carcinogens IN THE SAME ARTICLE.
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ANR's press release yesterday was inspired by and based upon Stan's blog posting last week. ANR's press release also repeated some of Stan's claims, which were cut and pasted into ANR's release.
ANR was founded by Stan Glantz in the early 1980s. It was originally named Californians for Nonsmokers Rights, but was changed to Americans for Nonsmokers Rights after several years.
Before Cynthia Hallet became ANR's exec a decade ago, Julia Carol and Robin Hobart ran ANR back in its heyday, and their sole mission was advocating local indoor smokefree workplace ordinances (as they refused to get involved in any other tobacco related policy issues). And under Julia's leadership, ANR wouldn't support any legislation that banned smoking outdoors (as she knew secondhand smoke levels outdoors are far lower than indoors).
Back in 1995 Julia (who I collaborated with on many campaigns) first warned me that abstinence-only tobacco/nicotine prohibitionists were trying to take over our largely grassroots tobacco control movement (which has occurred), and that the abstinence-only prohibitonists posed a greater threat to the future of the nonsmokers rights movement (which was the precursor of the tobacco control movement) than were cigarette companies, which we were defeating in city council after city council.
After Julia and Robin left ANR around 1999, Cynthia (who was on ANR's staff) became executive director. Little did Julia realize that she was warning me about her successor at ANR, as Cynthia has been e-cigarette usage bans in workplaces (by falsely redefining "smoking" to include e-cig use), outdoor smoking bans on government property (including parks and forests), and indoor/outdoor tobacco usage bans at places of employment.
Meanwhile, Stan has basically become president emeritus of ANR (and has helped get it lots of government funding), which is located just across the Bay Bridge (in Berkeley) from Stan.
ANR was founded by Stan Glantz in the early 1980s. It was originally named Californians for Nonsmokers Rights, but was changed to Americans for Nonsmokers Rights after several years.
Before Cynthia Hallet became ANR's exec a decade ago, Julia Carol and Robin Hobart ran ANR back in its heyday, and their sole mission was advocating local indoor smokefree workplace ordinances (as they refused to get involved in any other tobacco related policy issues). And under Julia's leadership, ANR wouldn't support any legislation that banned smoking outdoors (as she knew secondhand smoke levels outdoors are far lower than indoors).
Back in 1995 Julia (who I collaborated with on many campaigns) first warned me that abstinence-only tobacco/nicotine prohibitionists were trying to take over our largely grassroots tobacco control movement (which has occurred), and that the abstinence-only prohibitonists posed a greater threat to the future of the nonsmokers rights movement (which was the precursor of the tobacco control movement) than were cigarette companies, which we were defeating in city council after city council.
After Julia and Robin left ANR around 1999, Cynthia (who was on ANR's staff) became executive director. Little did Julia realize that she was warning me about her successor at ANR, as Cynthia has been e-cigarette usage bans in workplaces (by falsely redefining "smoking" to include e-cig use), outdoor smoking bans on government property (including parks and forests), and indoor/outdoor tobacco usage bans at places of employment.
Meanwhile, Stan has basically become president emeritus of ANR (and has helped get it lots of government funding), which is located just across the Bay Bridge (in Berkeley) from Stan.
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Mike Siegel: Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Publicly Claims that Electronic Cigarettes are Not Useful in Smoking Cessation, Despite Any Scientific Support for Its Statement
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/09/americans-for-nonsmokers-rights.html
In this post, Mike criticizes ANR for lying about the effectiveness of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation.
Hopefully, Mike will write a subsequent post about ANR's repeating Glantz' claim that e-cigarette use should be banned indoors because "they emit detectable levels of carcinogens and toxic chemicals"
Glantz' posting claimed e-cigarettes should be banned indoors because they "are putting detectable levels of several significant carcinogens and toxins in the air" and "there are no safe levels of exposure to carcinogens."
ANR's press release claimed that "e-cigarettes pollute indoor air with detectable levels of carcinogens and other toxic chemicals" and "Absent convincing proof that e-cigarettes are harmless to people exposed to the vapors they emit, their use in workplaces and public places should be prohibited."
And yet, Stan Glantz and ANR's Cynthia Hallet "pollute indoor air with detectable levels of carcinogens and other toxic chemicals" every time they exhale, as do building materials, carpeting, furniture, televisions, computers, printers, cosmetics, household cleaners, foods, cooking, coffee, smokers, nonsmokers and many other things.
Virtually everything contains and emits "detectable" levels of carcinogens or so-called toxic chemicals. Of course, Glantz' post and Hallet's press release don't call for the banning of everything (including themselves) that emits "detectable levels of carcinogens or toxic chemicals", just e-cigarettes.
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/09/americans-for-nonsmokers-rights.html
In this post, Mike criticizes ANR for lying about the effectiveness of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation.
Hopefully, Mike will write a subsequent post about ANR's repeating Glantz' claim that e-cigarette use should be banned indoors because "they emit detectable levels of carcinogens and toxic chemicals"
Glantz' posting claimed e-cigarettes should be banned indoors because they "are putting detectable levels of several significant carcinogens and toxins in the air" and "there are no safe levels of exposure to carcinogens."
ANR's press release claimed that "e-cigarettes pollute indoor air with detectable levels of carcinogens and other toxic chemicals" and "Absent convincing proof that e-cigarettes are harmless to people exposed to the vapors they emit, their use in workplaces and public places should be prohibited."
And yet, Stan Glantz and ANR's Cynthia Hallet "pollute indoor air with detectable levels of carcinogens and other toxic chemicals" every time they exhale, as do building materials, carpeting, furniture, televisions, computers, printers, cosmetics, household cleaners, foods, cooking, coffee, smokers, nonsmokers and many other things.
Virtually everything contains and emits "detectable" levels of carcinogens or so-called toxic chemicals. Of course, Glantz' post and Hallet's press release don't call for the banning of everything (including themselves) that emits "detectable levels of carcinogens or toxic chemicals", just e-cigarettes.
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Here's a news article generated by ANR's press release
Anti-Smoking Group Targets E-Cigarettes
Anti-Smoking Group Targets E-Cigarettes
And here is CASAA's rebuttal:
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights shamelessly promotes continued smoking; makes false claims about... -- SPRINGFIELD, Va., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Elaine Keller, proud graduate of the Bill Godshall School of Headline Writing!
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights shamelessly promotes continued smoking; makes false claims about... -- SPRINGFIELD, Va., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Elaine Keller, proud graduate of the Bill Godshall School of Headline Writing!
And here is CASAA's rebuttal:
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights shamelessly promotes continued smoking; makes false claims about... -- SPRINGFIELD, Va., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Elaine Keller, proud graduate of the Bill Godshall School of Headline Writing!
Brava Elaine! I love to read these things and collect them, in case I need to refer to them, or b-slap somebody with some truth!
Posted to facebook, time for some swinging back at these people.
To quote Stephan Dorff in the Blu ad:
We're all adults here. It's time to take our freedom back. C'mon guys. Rise from the ashes.
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