So good I'm saving it out as a reference. A few nitpicks - one on just PR value - "the Free Markets. Real Solutions" subtitle is going to put off anyone Left of say, Ronald Reagan - which would include the Bush Family, all but about 6 of the Senate Republicans and more than half in the House and all Democrats.
And again, some writers like to be 'reasonable' so they stick in something like this:
"Harm reduction is not harm elimination. All nicotine-delivery products present a risk of potential illness greater than would be considered acceptable in other consumer products."
... which is simply a false statement. There are many consumer products that 'present a risk of potential illness greater' than ecigarettes. How about alcohol, certain foods, some (not all) 'new age remedies'?
I liked this part:
Non-attractiveness to teens and non-smoking adults:
..."Experience to date, however, has shown that while many non-smoking teens may experiment with e-cigarettes, very few continue their use and that it is extremely rare for a previously non-smoking teen to transition from e-cigarettes to tobacco cigarettes." (with 6 study references!)
"Two recently published studies conducted by public health non-profits one in the United States and the other in the United Kingdom show that teens are very aware of e-cigarettes, but researchers were unable to find even a single non-smoking teen who had taken them up. One study published online in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health and co-authored by Dr. Jonathan Winickoff, chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium, was able to find only six nonsmokers who had ever used e-cigarettes in a national survey of 3,240 adults, including 1,802 non-smokers."
And:
"For decades, tobacco-control advocates have considered the terms smoking and tobacco use (and I'd add 'nicotine') as if they were synonymous. Their stated goal has been a tobacco-free society, even though almost all the deaths and almost all the addiction has been from a single tobacco product cigarettes."
and...
"Flavored e-cigarettes: Nicotine has an extremely harsh taste and, unless sweetened or flavored in a smokeless tobacco
product or e-cigarette, it would be unpalatable to almost all potential users. Flavors, and the ability to change flavors at
will, are important to adult users of e-cigarettes. 116 Even the over-the-counter pharmaceutical nicotine products available
on drugstore, discount store and supermarket shelves come in a variety of fruit and candy flavors. The flavoring
of these FDA-approved pharmaceuticals is a concern never raised by those who oppose flavored e-cigarettes."
Actually ....for upholding the individual rights of those individuals who compose the false concept of 'society'.
