Don't oppose e-cigarettes because they're safer

[BuGlen]

Another common sense article, by Windsor Mann:
Don't oppose e-cigarettes because they're safer | Pacific Daily News | guampdn.com

The first paragraph really sets the tone for the whole article:

As someone who hates smoking and loves children, even children who smoke, I was delighted to learn the other day that more and more kids smoke electronic cigarettes.

According to data furnished this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of 10 high school students used e-cigarettes last year, twice the number from 2011. CDC Director Tom Frieden said these teenagers might develop "a lifelong addiction to nicotine and conventional cigarettes."


Yes, and they might also develop an addiction to Caesar salads and Golden Girls reruns. Who knows?

Yes, I do love it when someone does sarcasm so well!

 

[longbraids]

Kudos to a voice of reason. As a mother of three, two grown adults, one teen, I can say with certainty kids will experiment with and try many things,(I did) in a ideal world we would have nothing to harm any of us but that isn't what we have is it?

 

[DrMA]

Nice find, Bu. unfortunately, articles like this are the exception rather than the norm.

 

[BuGlen]

Nice find, Bu. unfortunately, articles like this are the exception rather than the norm.

That is just too true. It's unfortunate that these don't get the rewrite distribution that the "doom" articles get, but that is what our media has become.

 

[Petrodus]

A spokesperson for the Food and Drug Administration, which wants to regulate e-cigarettes,
said, "We don't want the public to perceive them as a safer alternative to cigarettes"
A puzzling statement considering that is precisely what they are.

 

[Petrodus]

A spokesperson for the Food and Drug Administration, which wants to regulate e-cigarettes,
said, "We don't want the public to perceive them as a safer alternative to cigarettes"
A puzzling statement considering that is precisely what they are.

SCREAMS ... The FDA is opposed to tobacco Harm Reduction
and is an open door to the FDA's position on ecigs ...
more like an open garage door !!

 

[drichardson]

It's a wonderful article, a shame that their aren't any comments. I don't use facebook, so I can't add my own. A few positive and informative comments from the members here would do just as much good as well-written critical comments on negative articles.

 

[Petrodus]

It's a wonderful article, a shame that their aren't any comments. I don't use facebook, so I can't add my own. A few positive and informative comments from the members here would do just as much good as well-written critical comments on negative articles.

There's a comment now !! ...
3 guesses from who and the first 2 don't count

 

[Petrodus]

OK ... for those who don't know who the "Mystery member" is who posted a comment.
Here's a hint.
You will find him somewhere North of Atlanta.