Chicago Tribune opposing articles 01-15-14

[Lisa66]

It's crunch time in Chicago. These two articles appear side by side today:


Edit: See articles below

 

[ruet]

Both pieces require a paid subscription to view.

 

[Lisa66]

Both pieces require a paid subscription to view.

Oops - let me try again.

 

[Lisa66]

Sorry - I do have a subscription and some articles are only subscription. The following are screen shots.

Here's the first one:

E-cig debate going off the rails

 

[03FXDWG]

Typed while you were posting it. No subscription--no read.

 

[Lisa66]

The second one:

The smoke behind e-cigarettes

 

[Sundodger]

This needs a lot of fixing for sure, here I'll help:

Stanton A. Glantz is a failed professor of mechanical engineering, so he hitched his wagon to a golden goose with the University of California at San Francisco and the American Legacy Foundation's distinguished professor of tobacco control, to assure his bank account continues to support his lifestyle, by making sure the cash cow known as "tobacco control" continues.

 

[house mouse]

"In practical terms, this means that for every person that e-cigarettes helped to quit smoking, there is at least one person whom e-cigarettes kept from quitting."

Isn't that a 50% success rate with e-cigs, Stanton? As opposed to a 5% success rate with pharmaceutical NRTs?

 

[sebt]

Lisa66, um, I don't know how to say this. I want to thank you for posting this information so that I didn't have to find a way through a paywall..... but....... it's........... GLANTZ!

I can't select the text to quote and attempt to even start analysing Stan-the-Gland's beyond-Euclidean contortions of logic and causality.

I'm assuming that some automatic script in the forum software kicked in to surround his utterances with a kind of protective anti-CTRL+C cordon - for the protection of readers' sanity.

Reading it just once was bad enough: it was as if my brain was being twisted, pummelled and wrenched into the shape of a novelty donkey by a psychopathic children's-party balloon-artist, with all the screeching noises this involves. Thank God we can't actually repeat his words in our replies! I suppose I could scroll up and actually read it again, but I just can't bring myself to. It's the verbal equivalent of Goatse. (If you don't get that last reference, don't Google it. Seriously, don't).

I wish I could have a pane of bullet-proof glass slide up in front of my monitor when this kind of thing crops up. It's a nice monitor, cost a bit of money, and never did me any harm, so I don't really want to punch a hole in it.

 

[DrMA]

This needs a lot of fixing for sure, here I'll help:

Stanton A. Glantz is a failed professor of mechanical engineering, so he hitched his wagon to a golden goose with the University of California at San Francisco and the American Legacy Foundation's distinguished professor of tobacco control, to assure his bank account continues to support his lifestyle, by making sure the cash cow known as "tobacco control" continues.

We should totally add this to the Wikipedia page on Stan-the-Gland.

 

[DC2]

When I see anything written by Stanton Glantz, I don't read it, because I really can't take it anymore.

 

[Lisa66]

sebt, DrMA and DC2: Yup, agreed.....thought it was amusing they were placed side by side.

You should have seen the live clips on the news featuring the ANTZ. It was maddening.