Dont believe the Hype-E Cigarettes wont ruin society, they changed my life-The Guardian

[Orb Skewer]

Some of you may recognise this fella

Don't believe the hype: e-cigarettes won't ruin society, they changed my life | Nick Green | Comment is free | theguardian.com

 

[AgentAnia]

Damn, Orb, you're one step ahead of me all the way today!

The comments are good reading as well...

 

[Orb Skewer]

Damn, Orb, you're one step ahead of me all the way today!

The comments are good reading as well...

Ok, Ania, I'll let you trump me with the 'Transcript of Viscount Ridley debate in the House of Lords'

That one counts as a 'tensie'

 

[AgentAnia]

Ok, Ania, I'll let you trump me with the 'Transcript of Viscount Ridley debate in the House of Lords'

That one counts as a 'tensie'

Would have done, but reading Viscount Ridley put me to sleep and I never did finish the transcript....

ETA: Have just located and read the Viscount. I retract my statement above and proffer apologies to Ridley for implying he is boring. Am going to post in EU legislation if you haven't beat me to it...

 

[Orb Skewer]

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[Anjaffm]

Wonderful article! Great find!

And wonderful comments!
... a few silly antis.. blathering the usual nonsense.. and a lot of great comments by great, reasonable people

 

[2coils]

Kudos to Grimm for getting this piece out there!! Very nice indeed!

 

[blondeambition3]

I've TWEETED this, FB'd this and emailed it to everyone I believe will or will not give a hoot.

Wow! Totally awed and blown away.

I've always loved GrimmGreen..... this is just another AWESOME reason WHY!!!!!

 

[sebt]

Awesome piece! Kudos to the author. I've been having fun in the comments (under my CiF moniker toadalone). What's very encouraging is how much support the article is getting in the comments. There are a few polite sceptics wondering about whether e-cigs are certainly 100% safe; then a very few uninformed people making rude remarks - but the vast majority of comments are pro e-cigs. It's almost as heartening as seeing rubbish articles (like the recent Mail one) torn apart in the comments.

 

[Uma]

:thumbup: to GrimmGreen!! WTG Nick!!

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

sebt, I am so stealing this from your comment over there, we need a web site for this institute.

But didn't you know, a recent study by the prestigious IOIJMIU* concluded that passenger alarm and distress at someone possibly smoking a cigarette near them could cause 100,000 deaths a year?
[*Institute Of I Just Made This Up]

 

[AgentAnia]

sebt, I am so stealing this from your comment over there, we need a web site for this institute.

I'm with you, NoA. Sebt, you now have an entry in AgentAnia's vaping Dictionary:

IOIJMIU: The prestigious "Institute of I Just Made This Up" (A term coined by ECF member sebt, commenting in a newspaper article. "But didn't you know, a recent study by the prestigious IOIJMIU* concluded that passenger alarm and distress at someone possibly smoking a cigarette near them could cause 100,000 deaths a year? [*Institute Of I Just Made This Up] (See also "University of Thin Air.")

University of Thin Air: (coined by Brad, ecigadvanced blogger) The institute of not-so-high learning where the pseudo-scientific arm of ANTZ prohibitionists originate their "facts" and "figures" to prove that anything related to tobacco, nicotine, and smoking is evilevilevil.

 

[Spazmelda]

Awesome piece! Kudos to the author. I've been having fun in the comments (under my CiF moniker toadalone). What's very encouraging is how much support the article is getting in the comments. There are a few polite sceptics wondering about whether e-cigs are certainly 100% safe; then a very few uninformed people making rude remarks - but the vast majority of comments are pro e-cigs. It's almost as heartening as seeing rubbish articles (like the recent Mail one) torn apart in the comments.

Your comments were awesome, as was the article. I also really enjoyed the commenter who had the Charles Darwin avatar. I can't remember what name he was going by.

 

[sebt]

Glad you liked the Institute of I Just Made It Up I mispelled the acronym, though. It should be IOIJMIU. Not IOIJMTU, that's the entirely separate Institute of I Just Made THIS Up. It's so hard to keep your "facts" straight when you're just making them up. How do the ANTZ manage it?

 

[Spazmelda]

I think I've seen a lot of articles from the IOIJMIU in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.

 

[AgentAnia]

Glad you liked the Institute of I Just Made It Up I mispelled the acronym, though. It should be IOIJMIU. Not IOIJMTU, that's the entirely separate Institute of I Just Made THIS Up. It's so hard to keep your "facts" straight when you're just making them up. How do the ANTZ manage it?

Dictionary has been corrected, additional entry added w/ clarification, w/ thanks from the editor...