e cigs included in smoking ban.

[Gyrospinup]

Last Tuesday, April 5th, Springfield, Mo. narrowly passed a city smoking ban which included E Cigarettes. Why do they include e cigarettes in these no smoking bans? I havent smoked tobacco since Jan. 23rd thanks to e cigs and also quit chewing tobacco on the same day. I voted against the ban so I did my part but it still passed. I voted no mainly because it is a law that takes away freedom. The American Cancer Society and the Heart Association were the main funders of the group that had the ban put on the ballot. They also provided large billboards. Sad to see that donations to these organizations are being used to aid in communism instead of disease research.

 

[yvilla]

Gyrospinup, I replied to your identical post in the other thread. However, I'm going to copy that reply here, as it's too important to leave unremarked upon.

Gyrospinup, you've totally got the wrong culprit! Donations to these groups are not being used to aid "communism".

They are being used to aid, protect, and enhance the profits of the pharmaceutical industry! Check out the huge - and I mean in the millions - amounts given to these groups by big pharm to do its lobbying for it. And to push its nicotine replacement drug products at every possible opportunity. And, specifically, to propose and push for legislation and local ordinances all around the country to ban both the sale and public use of e-cigs, which are a direct and hugely growing competitor to its products.

There are numerous posts here, and articles and blogs all over the web, where you can see the facts and figures behind this truth!