This is my rebuttal , which I'm sending tomorrow after I read it again. Maybe we should bombard them with honesty because they certainly lack it.
Consumer Reports;
Re: November Issue
Your blurb "Worst new threat to kids" is just another attempt to portray smokers and now non-smoking Vapers as slightly better than child abusers. Where are your facts and figures? Where are your graphs showing the top 10 poisonings of children compared to e-juice? Medicine? Antifreeze? Fruity Tylenol syrup? How many children each year are double dosed with Tylenol due being given it with a cold medicine? It's near impossible to find a cold medicine without it.
Skyrocketing? Sure if you believe that 10 out of 1000 is greater than 1 in 10. You avoid using true numbers and their relevance to the increase in PV (electronic cig) usage.
CNN states that there has not been any known deaths so far from Personal Vaporizers (e-cigarettes). All the American suppliers of e-liquid that I've dealt with use child proof caps on the liquid. This was not a government regulation. This came from within the Vaping community, as did ingredients and warnings on the labels.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin as of 4/9/2014 states that the top 5 poisonings for children age 5-10 are pesticides, personal care products, cleaning solutions, medications, and ethanol from mouthwash.
If a child dies from one of those poisonous household products, or alcohol poisoning, they blame the parent. If a parent leaves a bottle of e-liquid with the cap off and their child is poisoned by it, is it the Nicotine or the Parent that is to blame?
Consumer Reports, you boast about telling the truth to consumers backed by facts and numbers. That is an UNtruth AND I CAN PROVE IT. You are twisting what little information you have to create a public that hates something they know very little about, and is helping thousands of smokers quit! What happened to your Unbiased Education of the Public?
Why did you never even mention the US Food and Drug Administration taken to court in 2010-11 over their illegal seizure of PV (e-cig) parts?-- Which They Lost! Or their untruths announced to the public about E-liquid having antifreeze in it ? How about the fact that the FDA makes 36 billion dollars or more a year from people who smoke cigarettes. Who wants to lose that? Not to mention that child proof caps protect children, but nobody has ever insisted on putting childproof caps on cigarettes to protect those age 14-18. And alcoholic liquor has no child proof cap as well.
