Best commentary yet!

[TropicalBob]

The Undercurrent | FDA Snuffs Out Safer Smoking Alternative

Hammering home our best arguments.

 

[ccure]

I like it!

 

[Caesarea]

Excellent - I'd post the URL in the FDA's feedback box!!

 

[dEFinitionofEPIC]

The authority of the FDA is not a moral authority at all. It is the authority of the gun. It is by muscle and not by right that the FDA is forcing those who sell these products, and those who choose to buy them, to forgo the opportunity to pursue their happiness in the way they judge best...If even one American dies who otherwise would have lived, and it will likely be many more than that, the guilt of the government will be beyond repair.

Well Said Though the thought of the government feeling guilty is truly laughable....

 

[surbitonPete]

Excellent - I'd post the URL in the FDA's feedback box!!

a really good Idea Caesarea..... without doubt someone should do that.

 

[Caesarea]

a really good Idea Caesarea..... without doubt someone should do that.

I sometimes wish I was a US citizen....
This would certainly be one occasion.


C.

 

[WendyM]

I retweeted it

 

[runninlater]

That article was like a breath of fresh air!

 

[NY JETS]

How prominent is this publication though Bob? It was definitely a great piece but will it have any real effect?

 

[Carmel]

It's about time.

 

[ipolic]

Great article!

 

[kinabaloo]

Great article!

+1

 

[jcoppers]

Does anyone have the contact information for the judge hearing the smoke everywhere case? I like the comment comparing banning these to murder. Lets find a D.A. who e-smokes and He/She can charge Lautenberg with at least negligent homicide.

 

[jcoppers]

Yeah, I know, it isn't gonna happen......But I sure as hell wish it could.

 

[seminolewind]

Do you think anyone's going to listen to us? We were smokers which means our opinion may not carry any weight. No one's out there asking recovering smokers what their opinion is. Has any recovering smoker here ever been asked where a smoking area should be located, or how it should look?

 

[laynies]

Do you think anyone's going to listen to us? We were smokers which means our opinion may not carry any weight. No one's out there asking recovering smokers what their opinion is. Has any recovering smoker here ever been asked where a smoking area should be located, or how it should look?

Actually, yes.

When our company moved it's office into a new building my boss (the owner) polled all the smokers in the office as to where the new smoking area should be located (within the limits of AZ law of course). Of course, he is definitely the exception to the rule.

 

[Coombs]

"Rather than leaving it up to individual Americans—smokers, scientists, doctors—to judge the value of electronic cigarettes, the FDA has chosen to deny smokers the opportunity to pursue this alternative."

This piece needs to be directed to every newspaper and news site around

 

[Toby]

As we all know and believe, it ought to be the moral imperative of all governments to research (and encourage) all aspects of the electronic cigarette industry.

But most governments do not seem to have a decent ethical moral imperative...

 

[myrtlemeva]

Talking of Governments....

Found on the website of the Executive Board of the Health Ministers Council for GCC States...........
Under the Anti-smoking program.....

Constraints..........
" The lobby formed by the tobacco companies and their agents in the member States through traders has a great impact on issuing and implementing the Ministers' resolutions."

Well done Gulf States for being honest about how you're so totally in the hands of BT. Be really good if you stood up to them, but somehow doubt it.
Have heard from a reliable source that if the FDA bans e-cigs in the USA, all Gulf countries will follow suit.
Come on, ECA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[alphafemale]

I think the gov wants to ban e-cigs cause it would cause them more work.

They want us to smoke analogs because they already have the laws set up telling us where we canc/can not smoke them.

If everyone switched to e-cigs, they would have to take the old laws off of the books, more work for them.

Not to mention they wouldn't have any control over the situation. This is the reason why weed is illegal (not that I care). They can't figure out how to tax it and control it.