Come on people, let's flood their inboxes and let them know what we think of their dictatorial e-cig ban! Even if you don't live in Seattle! Let them know the whole country is watching.
Here are their individual email addresses (all I could find, anyway):
julia.patterson@kingcounty.gov; kathy.lambert@kingcounty.gov; joe.mcdermott@kingcounty.gov; nick.licata@seattle.gov; sally.clark@seattle.gov; richard.conlin@seattle.gov; maria.wood@kingcounty.gov
In addition, you can use the “Contact us” form at this link:
http://info.kingcounty.gov/about/contact/default.aspx
Read the BoH's explanation of their decision here:
https://www.kingcounty.gov/council/news/2010/December/JP_Ecig.aspx
Here's my email:
On the King County Board of Health website, Board of Health Chair Julia Patterson is quoted as saying “E-cigarettes are used as a means to encourage people, especially our youth, to begin smoking." I would like to know what evidence the Board has to back up this claim. Please explain to me why the electronic cigarette industry would market a product designed to get people off of that product, and onto another industry's product. If the Board has evidence that the electronic cigarette industry was designed to self-destruct, and is merely a plot by the tobacco industry to hook children on cigarettes, I believe the residents of King County deserve to know this evidence. If, on the other hand, the King County Board of Health can simply make up whatever "facts" it wants in order to justify its dictatorial overreach of power, I believe the residents of King County deserve to know that, as well. It is interesting that Ms. Patterson's very next statement was “Their (e-cigs') safety and long-term health impacts are untested and unknown." It would seem that, within the space of two sentences, she has gone from a careless disseminator of wild, unsubstantiated claims, to an ardent advocate of the strictest scientific method. The citizens of King County are not fooled by this transparent ploy. We deserve better from our officials. Again I ask, what actual evidence do you have to back up the claims made by Ms. Patterson on your website? If you have no such evidence, what right do you have to pass laws based on conjecture and fabrication on your side, while demanding the strictest scientific evidence on the other?
Come on, let's see yours!
Here are their individual email addresses (all I could find, anyway):
julia.patterson@kingcounty.gov; kathy.lambert@kingcounty.gov; joe.mcdermott@kingcounty.gov; nick.licata@seattle.gov; sally.clark@seattle.gov; richard.conlin@seattle.gov; maria.wood@kingcounty.gov
In addition, you can use the “Contact us” form at this link:
http://info.kingcounty.gov/about/contact/default.aspx
Read the BoH's explanation of their decision here:
https://www.kingcounty.gov/council/news/2010/December/JP_Ecig.aspx
Here's my email:
On the King County Board of Health website, Board of Health Chair Julia Patterson is quoted as saying “E-cigarettes are used as a means to encourage people, especially our youth, to begin smoking." I would like to know what evidence the Board has to back up this claim. Please explain to me why the electronic cigarette industry would market a product designed to get people off of that product, and onto another industry's product. If the Board has evidence that the electronic cigarette industry was designed to self-destruct, and is merely a plot by the tobacco industry to hook children on cigarettes, I believe the residents of King County deserve to know this evidence. If, on the other hand, the King County Board of Health can simply make up whatever "facts" it wants in order to justify its dictatorial overreach of power, I believe the residents of King County deserve to know that, as well. It is interesting that Ms. Patterson's very next statement was “Their (e-cigs') safety and long-term health impacts are untested and unknown." It would seem that, within the space of two sentences, she has gone from a careless disseminator of wild, unsubstantiated claims, to an ardent advocate of the strictest scientific method. The citizens of King County are not fooled by this transparent ploy. We deserve better from our officials. Again I ask, what actual evidence do you have to back up the claims made by Ms. Patterson on your website? If you have no such evidence, what right do you have to pass laws based on conjecture and fabrication on your side, while demanding the strictest scientific evidence on the other?
Come on, let's see yours!
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