CASAA Position Statement on Electronic Cigarettes

[Vocalek]

I have published the CASAA position statement on Newsvine.

Newsvine - CASAA Position Statement on Electronic Cigarettes

Would you please click the green Vote button above the title. There is a tool bar at the bottom of the screen that lets you Share the article to your Facebook page or Twitter. You can also email the article (actually, it emails a link to the article.)

EDIT: Found out that you do need to register in order to have a working "Vote" button. I plan on writing more articles for publication on this site and also "seeding" CASAA articles from other places. So it would be worth while to go though the free registration process.

The Votes and the Sharing helps to get the word out to your friends and family who, hopefully, will pass it on.

If you need a printed copy of the document to mail or take with you as part of your campaign efforts, you can access a nicely formatted PDF version on the CASAA web site: http://www.casaa.org/files/CASAA Position Statement.pdf

 

[aldreis]

Would you please click the green Vote button above the title.

Duly voted. Nice work, thank you.

 

[StormFinch]

Voted for, Tweeted, Facebooked and submitted to Digg. Thank you VocalEK and CASAA.

 

[Vicks Vap-oh-Yeah]

I couldn't get the vote feature to work...but I posted it on my FB page.

 

[StormFinch]

I think you have to make an account to vote. At least, that's the only way I could get it to. It's not a very involved process though and only takes a minute.

 

[Vocalek]

Cool! We have gotten a comment in opposition, which gives us a chance to debate the issues. Janetda has parried quite nicely, and I added my $2 worth. Let's clobber them with the facts, presented politely.

 

[D103]

I really LIKE this Position Statement!! I posted a comment in reply to "whatanoddguy" and did my best to "be convincing but civil." We'll see what happens.

 

[nojoyet]

There is also a "Like" button which when clicked upon first showed my real name and then an error message which stated "Casaanewsvine.com-casaa position statement...could not be reached.

That it showed my real name has me a little concerned. Any thoughts?

 

[trailblazer6]

I for one do not believe our government will let the electrictronic cigarette or any other effective reduced harm alternative to smoking be permitted in our society because they are affective. I believe our government want us to die. Needs us to die after we have reached our peek earning potential so they can keep there fat heads in the public troth that has been feeding them for so long.

 

[ezmoose]

Voted up and commented on.

 

[Vocalek]

Loved Cathy Bixler's comment. Gee, I do all those things, too. I vape, drive a car, and ride as a passenger on my husband's motorcycle. Living on the edge, and life is good.

 

[Vocalek]

There is also a "Like" button which when clicked upon first showed my real name and then an error message which stated "Casaanewsvine.com-casaa position statement...could not be reached.

That it showed my real name has me a little concerned. Any thoughts?

No idea. I don't see a Like button on Newsvine. I often use the "Like" button on Facebook, though.

Can you access the article now?

 

[nojoyet]

Yes thanks, accessed, renamed, registered, commented and voted.

The "like" button appears below the paragraph after your links and just above "Related articles from...". It's associated with Facebook perhaps as there is a small facebook symbol to the right.

 

[Vocalek]

Yes thanks, accessed, renamed, registered, commented and voted.

The "like" button appears below the paragraph after your links and just above "Related articles from...". It's associated with Facebook perhaps as there is a small facebook symbol to the right.

Oh, OK. I didn't notice that before. It does look just like the Facebook icon.

If it's tied to your Facebook account, that would explain why you saw your real name flash when you clicked it.

 

[rtbob]

Bump it up!

 

[kristin]

I voted and commented. I feel a bit sorry for that one poster, but his arguments just don't hold water.

whatanoddguy said: I'm just unconvinced that they are safer than other choices for nicotine and have heard advertisers making misleading claims that they are healthier. If they want to be medical devices, then they need to present evidence of their effectiveness to the FDA. If they wan't to be one tobacco product among many, great, but don't suggest that your product is healthier than cigarettes.
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How can you not agree that the absence of thousands of toxic chemicals and over 50 carcinogens isn't safer?

Where is the proof that low-fat products are any healthier than fatty products? Did they do clinical tests for 10 years? NO. They just used simple logic that if you remove the "bad" things from something, then it's less harmful and therefore, healthier.

Propylene glycol is put in antifreeze to make it less toxic to animals and children if accidentally swallowed. The regular, toxic ingredients in antifreeze are ethylene or diethylene glycol. Propylene glycol can still be an "irritant" to some sensitive people, but those people wouldn't be smoking in the first place, as they'd also be highly sensitive to the chemicals in tobacco smoke.

Where are the 10 years of testing to "prove" that using propylene glycol in antifreeze is safer? There isn't any, because simple logic follows that using a GRAS ingredient (Generally Regarded As Safe) instead of a toxic ingredient makes a product safer.

Science has already published the studies that smoking is deadly because of the SMOKE and the ingredients in the SMOKE.

Ecigarettes have no smoke.

What they do have is propylene glycol (approved by the EPA and FDA for human use for injection, inhaling and eating), nicotine (approved for use in NRTs and tobacco, also found in vegetables like eggplants and tomatoes), glycerine (approved by FDA for human consumption) and food flavoring (approved by the FDA for consumption.)

ALL of these products have been tested and used for years by humans.

Not to mention we are over halfway through your "10 years of testing" requirement on actual consumers and there have been no reports of serious injury or illness attributed to ecig use. SIX YEARS and not ONE report.

Can the FDA-approved Chantix say that? The FDA is not the end-all-be-all on making sure consumers are safe. Especially when they get funding from Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and tobacco tax revenues. There is a HUGE conflict of interest when being objective about ecigs.

There is not ONE ingredient in ecigs that has been found anywhere near toxic levels in several tests and carcinogens are found at levels so low, they are comparable to the same levels as those found in FDA-approved gums and patches. (This is all on those links given previously.)

Now take tobacco cigarettes. Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanides, ammonia, tar, arsenic, methyl sulfide, particulates. NONE of these toxins have been found in ecigs, even when the FDA itself tested them.

Just by virtue of the absence of just ONE of those toxic ingredients makes ecigs less toxic, less hazardous and therefore, SAFER.

To insist that a product that has been tested and shown not to contain any toxic chemicals nor dangerous levels of carcinogens and has been used by consumers for 6 years without ill-effect is not at least less hazardous (ie. safer) than a product containing thousands of toxins with deadly levels of carcinogens that has probably killed thousands just this month is completely illogical and very irresponsible.

What you are basically doing is telling smokers they may as well keep smoking because, despite all of the evidence to the contrary, for some mysterious reason, all of the GRAS ingredients in ecigs may somehow be just as bad as all of the toxic ingredients in tobacco smoke.

It defies all logic and reason.

 

[DC2]

I see we have our big bats going to work in the comments section.
And a somewhat worthy adversary as well.

Nice work everyone!!

 

[Vocalek]

My thanks to all who have voted and for the comments you left.

 

[bassnut]

I posted a comment. Does that mean I voted too?
I'm a little confused....

 

[Vocalek]

No, there is a green Vote button made available to those who register on the site. Registration is free and I can tell you from experience that they don't Spam you. I plan on publishing more articles on this site, so I'd appreciate it if more folks sign up and vote for the articles. There is a feature called "Top of the Newsvine" that gives stories with a lot of votes possible exposure to media outlets.