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Sorry to interrupt the digging, but I would just like to mention here since I've seen you post this elsewhere as well, that, as I understand it, ECA members are not paid staff - they volunteer their time (over and above the jobs that they are paid to do professionally)I hear ya. Just a little frustrated is all. As I've said somewhere in a previous post, "I do the job I get paid to do professionally and effectively. I expect others to do the same."
I'm very surprised by the number of people who are sticking up for this silent voice who is requesting funding and is supposed to be helping us.Sorry to interrupt the digging, but I would just like to mention here since I've seen you post this elsewhere as well, that, as I understand it, ECA members are not paid staff - they volunteer their time (over and above the jobs that they are paid to do professionally)
I'm very surprised by the number of people who are sticking up for this silent voice who is requesting funding and is supposed to be helping us.
I'm very surprised you continue to waste time on something so pointless.
I'm surprised you continue to waste time replying to a post that you deem to be pointless and a waste of time.
just be happy we got this thing over 600![]()
I have no intention of wading through all these posts, but can tell you from personal experience that e-smoking could not have a better friend than Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. I first began reading her many years ago, when I was health editor at a major newspaper. Always, she was on-target, the voice of reason is a world of faddish crap and "alternative" junk stuff.
She is respected. Believe that. Siegel, regrettably, is an outlier, not liked by pro or anti forces. His blog posts are shouting to an empty canyon. He makes sense to us .. but no one else cares. On the other hand, Whelan's piece in the Washington Times reaches the only people who count (and we are not among them). They are regulators and legislators. If she can influence even a few with her wise words, then this will be a major step for e-smoking.
The proper course is as she said: Set out a timeline for regulatory steps to be completed (one week to eliminate all health and/or cessation claims; one month to submit certified tests for all liquids and carts; one year to complete a trial of short-term effects on former cigarette smokers; and leave them on the market while the timeline markers are being met by major sellers).
Bless you, Elizabeth Whelan. You are as rightously reasonable as you always have been, and thank you for taking up our cause.
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Can you expand a little on what this means. e.g. Might the NY Daily News do a followup piece?