e-cig on WMBD---Not bad

[jj2]

Just got through watching it. Here's the link.

Full story available Monday after 10:30

Will E-Cigarettes Play in Peoria? - CentralIllinoisProud.com

Edit: Just to let you know, they did a pretty good job.

 

[CES]

bumping- they did a nice job, AND the research.

 

[Skyler]

Seemed more positive than negative for a change.

 

[Locutus666]

It just shows how mis-informed the American Cancer Society is and their negative spin on polypropylene glycol. Sure, it's found in anti-freeze, but it's also found in a lot of products in your food pantry. Take a look at the ingredients of your food flavorings, like Adams and McCormick.

 

[Vocalek]

The ACS rep complains that there isn't research to determine the health effects. I have a suggestion: The ACS has research money -- lots of it. Why aren't they stepping up and volunteering to find out whether this product can reduce health risks, instead of complaining about lack of research?

I thought it telling that she commented that "they are trying to create smoking as a social norm." Like all good lies, there is a smidgen of truth in this. E-cigarettes would not "create" the norm. tobacco cigarettes created the norm. ACS and their accomplices have been working hard to turn smokers into pariahs. Now that vapers don't contribute to air pollution, it's possible that the prejudice that ACS has succeeded in creating against smokers will fade away as smokers become vapers who don't harm bystanders and the environment. Uh-oh. Their authority is being challenged. Control freaks don't like that.

 

[cliff5550]

Nice catch jj2. Totally missed that local coverage.

 

[ckc]

Thats really a good report,they certainly did their Homework!

Would it be so bad if vaping became the norm as opposed to 'smoking' i think the ACS spokesperson there got her words a tad wrong

 

[Kimmy]

Very good! Wish more news stations were like this...telling both sides of the story so viewers can form an opinion for themselves

 

[Kurt]

Nice story! But now its PG that is the concern? Since when did that change in rhetoric occur? Have they changed the scripts to remove the former DEG comments? The trace carcinogens? How about the candy flavors hooking kids?

I think the winds are blowing in a different direction now. I see this as pretty positive. You can be sure that the ACS pod had to stick to a script, as well as look fresh and pretty doing so, and what she said holds zero water, given the hospital use of PG vapor for antibacterial treatment. And fog machines. And foods. And...

Another strange thing is that PG is not at all cancer-causing. So why would that be the only issue Miss ACS has? There was virtually no mention of the FDA's talking points. This station's story was very much off-script. Watch for the FDA and other anti groups to insist on a rebuttal story...they don't like it when stories leave out their sound-bites.

Something is going on here, and I am leaning towards it being, at least on the surface, good.

 

[jiff]

I'm a little surprised someone from the FDA wasn't on hand to talk... Unless they didn't want them to talk?

Could be a good thing...

 

[harmony gardens]

Very good! Wish more news stations were like this...telling both sides of the story so viewers can form an opinion for themselves

Yes, it's good to see both sides of an issue, but it still bugs me that one side is true, and the other side is a clever manipulation of facts.

 

[JustJulie]

Great coverage. I loved the written blurb next to the video box: "Representatives from the American Cancer Society say they're just as dangerous as the real deal."

What these "charities" are doing is positively shameful. Either they're woefully and negligently uninformed or they're deliberately distorting the truth. Frankly, I'm not sure what's worse.

 

[Posidon]

The ACS rep complains that there isn't research to determine the health effects. I have a suggestion: The ACS has research money -- lots of it. Why aren't they stepping up and volunteering to find out whether this product can reduce health risks, instead of complaining about lack of research?

This is one of the greatest ideas I have heard.

 

[rolygate]

PG is used as the med carrier in asthma inhalers and is approved by the FDA for that purpose.

PG is used as the med carrier for injectable medicines and is approved by the FDA for that purpose.

PG is used as the mist generator in entertainment venue fog machines and is approved by the FDA for that purpose.

PG is approved by the FDA for human consumption by inhalation, injection, and ingestion, and is used in thousands of medicinal and food applications.

It is one of the most thoroughly tested and researched materials in existence approved by the FDA for human consumption. It can, of course, be used in any application such as paint, antifreeze, engine lube or any other toxic material, just as alcohol might be, as obviously this would not require FDA approval for human consumption.