Boston PHC issues 61 permits to sell e-cigs since March as more smokers demand less hazardous alternatives

[Bill Godshall]

Boston Public Health Commission issues 61 permits to sell e-cigarettes since March (including 28 in June) as increasingly more adult smokers demand far less hazardous alternatives. E-cigarette prohibitionists Matt Myers and D.J. Wilson falsely insinuate products are target marketed to youth. Rush is on for permits to sell e-cigarettes in Boston - Metro - The Boston Globe


Looks like the Boston Public Health Commission's attempts to prevent smokers from switching to e-cigarettes isn't going as planned.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for tobacco-Free Kids, a Washington, D.C., advocacy organization, is skeptical that e-cigarettes hold benefits.

“If these products are truly aimed at middle-aged adults to give them an alternative to smoking tobacco, the ads would look very different,” he said.

So would many of the products, said D.J. Wilson, tobacco control director at the Massachusetts Municipal Association.

“When you look at this,” said Wilson, referring to a strawberry-flavored, red-and-black tie-dyed e-cigarette with a red filter, “it would be hard to imagine an adult smoker who is weaning himself off tobacco would go for this.”

Its amazing what e-cigarette prohibitionists continue to say about the products.

Please note that DJ Wilson is the person who (as an employee of the MA Municipal Association) has been urging local boards of health throughout MA to enact unwarranted regulations to ban the sale and use of e-cigarettes.

 

[AgentAnia]

I say good on whoever's shoving those permits through the system!

“If these products are truly aimed at middle-aged adults to give them an alternative to smoking tobacco, the ads would look very different,” he said.

It would be interesting to know what he thinks an ad "aimed at middle-aged adults" should look like...!

“When you look at this,” said Wilson, referring to a strawberry-flavored, red-and-black tie-dyed e-cigarette with a red filter, “it would be hard to imagine an adult smoker who is weaning himself off tobacco would go for this.”

D.J. "Buzzkill" Wilson got no imagination at all, period... [typed with one more-than-middle-aged hand while holding my pina-colada-flavored, rainbow-wrapped e-cigarette in the other]

 

[2coils]

“This reminds me of a messy divorce,” Healy said. “Often people drag the kids in to win the argument.” Truth be told!!