EVENT ALERT - Court Hearing on E-Cigarettes [8/17] // Ruling Could Determine Fate of Controversial Nicotine Product

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Sun Vaporer

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k thx do we have anyone helping us fight against all this nonsence


Debbie--I thought the ECA (Electronic Cigarette Association) was going to at least file a brief---but I do not see any activity out of them except for some PR releases. We need some help where it counts and I am surprised they took a pass here.

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My dad wanted to post a video, unfortunately he can't reply for 3 more days. He told me to tell you to do a Google video search on "Professor John F. Banzhaf III".

He has not been a very happy camper reading the news lately. Even the dog won't go near him.

Thanks Pat. I just found out that I'm now out of the brig. Thanks for helping me, and we WILL be having that discussion about my hat later. :evil:

I dare not post this video, however, it is my full wrath. Almost had a stroke making it. 8-o

YouTube - A call and open video for PROFESSOR JOHN F. BANZHAF III from ASH to dig his head out of his ...

Just be forwarned, I am back with a vengence. Not with anyone here, but with dumbasses like this "Professor".

Viewer discretion strongly adviced. Do NOT start video if you are not prepared. Thanks.
 
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Words are very powerful things. It is amazing how fast they spread and how much they form public opinion.

It might seem like a very small thing, but it seems to me that A.S.H. has crossed a line and become a hate group. From "promoting the rights of non smokers" which is where they started, they have clearly moved to simply hating smokers. Smokers are people.

People who have been marginalized, barred from some jobs, places of entertainment and even barred from renting houses. In fact to the very best of my knowledge they are the only group of people who CAN be banned from renting a house on the basis of a belief or personal habit. The rights of non smokers have not been met in the way that the rights of any other group has been met, rather their rights have been met by removing the rights of another group entirely. Would women have been given the right to vote if it meant that men could not? Yet the rights of non smokers have been advanced to such an insane degree that smokers have been marginalized, criminalized, and had their rights ridiculously curtailed. It has not stopped with non smokers having rights, it has progressed to smokers having none..and all of this because of fear mongering over second hand smoke... a claim that has been yelled from the rooftops but never actually proven. But the yelling has been enough for the vast majority of people, even smokers, to believe it is true.

Words are powerful

The most recent proof of ASH's status as a simple hate group is that they now have come out against something because it "looks like" smoking. I think this has been glossed over, but if truth be told, I believe its their main horror.

It LOOKS like smoking!

We really need to take a close look at any organization that can spew so much vitriol because something "looks like" something else.

Given that ASH now clearly has become a group that disseminates hatred and prejudice against a group of PEOPLE it might be surprising how the simple act of calling them a hate group..often and everywhere, can go "viral" and tilt public opinion...just a little, possibly just enough.

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Words are very powerful things. It is amazing how fast they spread and how much they form public opinion.

It might seem like a very small thing, but it seems to me that A.S.H. has crossed a line and become a hate group. From "promoting the rights of non smokers" which is where they started, they have clearly moved to simply hating smokers. Smokers are people.

ASH is exactly like PETA, a radical group. Only their tactics are different.

And they not only are "promoting the rights of non smokers", but deconstructing the rights of smokers and demonizing the typical smoker as a child abuser.

Can't get any more radical than that.

And I hope that Professor Adolf is watching my video.
 

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:evil: @ ashholes. Tired of being told what I can and cannot do with my own self. Tired of the anti-smoking-nazis, do-gooders, better-than-the-common-people pieces of trash out there. They have every right to say what they want to say, but they have no right to interfere with my own way of life. When push comes to shove, we should not stand by and let them continue to grow in power. My own 2 billion trillion cents.
 
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I'm mad as hell too!
Yep, mad... as... hell! I wasnt politically active at all, hate politics actually, but the last year or 2 is changing all that. Next year im sure as spit going to register and vote, Im going to excercize that right like theres no tomorrow. Im defidently not the only one who feels this way, so there is hope hopefully :)
 

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Yep, mad... as... hell! I wasnt politically active at all, hate politics actually, but the last year or 2 is changing all that. Next year im sure as spit going to register and vote, Im going to excercize that right like theres no tomorrow. Im defidently not the only one who feels this way, so there is hope hopefully :)


Good luck with that I've been registered and voting since I was 18, there are no real choices.
 

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Words are powerful

The most recent proof of ASH's status as a simple hate group is that they now have come out against something because it "looks like" smoking. I think this has been glossed over, but if truth be told, I believe its their main horror.

It LOOKS like smoking!

We really need to take a close look at any organization that can spew so much vitriol because something "looks like" something else.

Given that ASH now clearly has become a group that disseminates hatred and prejudice against a group of PEOPLE it might be surprising how the simple act of calling them a hate group..often and everywhere, can go "viral" and tilt public opinion...just a little, possibly just enough.

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GREAT idea!!!
 

let_there_be_vaping

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One of the reasons for my videos. They're starting to slowly go viral slowly. Hopefully eventually I'll be like that dude that smashes cheap Chinese made products with a baseball bat while he vents on how ****ty the USA is becoming. He's got quite a following.

LOL, yeah... I can see that.

Didn't that guy get an invite to the White House by the pres? Don't know if he went or not though.
 

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I just read all 5 pages of this thred and i have to say if i was still smoking i would have had at least 3 analogs by the end. and one now as i was typing. this has gotin to the point of insanity. i could fill a hole page with quotes on what i agree on but if your reading this you already know them.

as smokers we took the loss of our liberties in stride because the media made us out to be villians. we cant let that happen again. all we are doing is finding a way to better ourselves; and protect the ones around us. we have solved the smoking and second hand smoke problem. that leaves the anti smokers with nothing to yell from there apple boxes. some people feel the need to control others and we have removed there ammo.

how can saving your own life and protecting the ones arround you be wrong.
keep fighting and God Bless Ammerica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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I did a little reading on this ASH, and its appears ASH is a force to be reckoned with. It Board and Sponsor Members include, Legislators, Judges, and Doctors as shown here:

John Banzhaf is also a Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School where he is widely known for his public-interest activities relating to environmental protection, auto safety, sex discrimination, governmental corruption and many other problems. In addition to his legal expertise, he brings to ASH his background as a scientist and research engineer with a degree from M.I.T., two U.S. patents and several published technical papers.

Ash's Board of Trustees includes many people of great skill and determination who have demonstrated their concern about smoking, and their support for activities to reduce it.

These include Dr. Alfred Munzer of the Washington Adventist Hospital, and former President of the American Lung Association; Dr. Chuck Crawford, President of Kimball Physics; Mr. Martin Adam Jacobs of the New York Mercantile Exchange; and Mrs. Ethel R. Wells of Dynamic Strategy Research Foundation.


ASH's Board of Sponsors includes Hon. Anthony C. Beilenson, Former U.S. Congressman, CA; Mr. William E. Bloomfield, Pres., Web Service Co. Inc.; Hon. Joseph A. Califano Jr., Pres., Nationall Center on Addiction, and former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, MD, MPH, Founder, Aerobics Fitness Center.; Rev. A.R. Taylor Denues, PhD, Founder CANCIRCO; Rev. Robert J. Drinan, S.J., Georgetown University Law Center; Dr. Frederick H. Epstein, Inst. Social & Preventative Med.; Dr. Emmanuel Farber, University of Toronto; Dr. Donald T. Frederickson, NYU Medical School; Robert A. Griese, Dolphin Productions; Paul P. Kaiser, Chairman, Tasty Baking Co., Emeritus; Prince Joli Q. Kansil, Xanadu Leisure, LTD; Charles W. Lantz, Pres., Citizens National Bank; Dr. Louis Lasagna, Tufts University., School of Medicine; Robert Levy, The Washington Post; Robert Ludwig, Pres., Non-Smokers' Association; Madeline Manning Mims, Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist; Charles Matthau, Hollywood Director; Dr. Joseph L. Melnick, Baylor College of Medicine; Hon. Howard Metzenbaum, Former U.S. Senator; Ms. Diane Disney Miller, Philanthropist; Miss Bess Myerson, Consumer Advocate; Margaret A. New, PhD., Fund Raising Consultant; Howard R. Sacks, Esq., Prof. of Law, University of Connecticut; Lyndon Sanders, Classic Motor Inn; Dr. Mona M. Shangold, Amer. Col. Sports Med.; Dr. William A. Shurcliff, Physicist; Dr. Dunbar W. Smith, Loma Linda University.; Dr. Katherine R. Sturgis, Med. College of Pennsylvania, Emeritus; Dr. Louis Sullivan, Morehouse School of Medicine; Dr. Robert Switzer, Dunn Loring, VA; Miss Abigail Van Buren, Syndicated Columnist; Austin G. Van Hove, Ther-N-Bak Travel; Mr. Dennis Weaver; Film and Television Personality; Mr. Roger Williams, Pianist and Television Artist; Alfreda Winnings, Fund-Raising Executive; and many others.

Sure looks like a money maker and has considerable weight.

For those that have not done so----their websight and direct attacks on the e-cig along with their plight to stop Paypal is worth a look

See Introduction to Action on Smoking and Health, ASH


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Other than sensationalism, the claim that e cigs could be used to deliver ...... is a crock. A water glass is a drug delivery device for ....... Those glass tubes with a rose that they sell at gas stations are used as crack pipes. ...... is marketed to children via those endless commercials on prime time tv. If a company is selling ...... illegally, arrest them for drug trafficking. ASH is desperate. E cigs present threats to them on many grounds. The first is financial since ASH relies upon smokers for funding of their very non-profit organization. Without smokers, there is no need for ASH, and ASH is very wealthy indeed. Then, back to "the children" again. Are those the same children who can go into the gas station and buy Nicorette gum in fruity flavors, teeth whitening varieties, cinnamon, etc. WITHOUT age restriction? Recall the recent case in the UK where ASH passed out Nicorette gum to middle schoolers and a 14 year old nearly died of overdose. ASH cannot stand e cigs for financial reasons and then simply because the e cig looks like smoking. Somewhere, somehow there is justice for ASH and all the ruin they have brought to society, to private business, to families, and now to e cigs. Every fascist one day pays the price. It cannot come soon enough for ASH.

I am by no means defending ASH (I can't stand those idiots!) I believe it was the school handing out the gum to students. At least that is what it says in this article:
Boy nearly dies after eating 45 sticks of nicotine gum | The Sun |News

Aiden was given the gum by a friend who had been caught smoking at Menzies High School Science College in West Bromwich, West Mids.
Workers from Sandwell Council's Drug Education, Counselling and Confidential Advice (DECCA) had been into school that morning and given out hundreds of boxes of the gum to pupils who smoke.
Aiden was rushed to Sandwell General Hospital with stomach pains after he collapsed in the playground at lunchtime.
 

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Sun thank you for the research and explanation of who ASH is. The more information you give, the more depressed I get. This just is not sounding good.


Sharon--it is very depressing. We are dealing with very powerful, well organized, and established entities. It really goes to show you how uneven the deck is stacked againt the e-cig even if testing shows it to be reasonable safe.

Logic and reason go out the window when a product does not square with the agenda of these "entities".


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Hey Big Jim, Banzhaf is an attorney...in my opinion he gives attorneys a bad name!

PROFESSOR JOHN F. BANZHAF III
Professor of Public Interest Law and Executive Director
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH),
America's First Antismoking Organization
2013 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA
(202) 659-4310 // (703) 527-8418
Introduction to Action on Smoking and Health, ASH //

Here is his personal url filled with prideful statements of his escapades WITH a link to his email:

Prof. John F. Banzhaf III of George Washington University Law School and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

...if one can't stomach his site the email is: contact@banzhaf.net

Have fun!;)
 
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