Fight for Your Right to #Vape - Daily Action Plan for Friday, 10.17.14

[noevilstar]

Fight for Your Right to #vape - Daily Action Plan for Friday, 10.17.14
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Some of you may remember the twitter lashing we gave the City of #Chicago back in January over their indoor use ban. Now, our efforts have been immortalized in the annals of politically motivated “science”.
You can read all about it here: JMIR-Tweeting for and Against Public Health Policy: Response to the Chicago Department of Public Health's Electronic Cigarette Twitter Campaign | Harris | Journal of Medical Internet Research .


Without getting into too much detail, it’s important to point out that the authors of this study have grossly misrepresented the definition of “astroturfing” by warping it to include citizen lobbying. Yes, there are vaping advocates here that have joined twitter for the sole purpose of participating in the daily action plan. That’s fine, and frankly the internet doesn’t really need anymore pictures of brunch or more opinions about what so-and-so was wearing at that awards show. If one of these tweets happens to land you a conversation with a policy maker (in any medium) then it’s a success.
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But seriously folks,


#Philadelphia Councilmember Blondell Reynolds Brown has introduced a bill that would levy insane #taxes on #vapor products sold within the city limits. It would appear that the only creative solution she has found to deal with the city’s budget woes is to inflict harm on vapers and future ex-smokers.
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#CASAA Call to Action: New York City is Considering Banning the Sale of Flavored E-Cigarettes and e-liquids
CASAA: Call to Action: New York City is Considering Banning the Sale of Flavored E-Cigarettes and E-Liquids
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Thank You!

 

[mechanus]

Tweeted. Any excuse to raise taxes, no?

 

[Ken_A]

also tweeted
it may just be that these guys are trying to ride on the nanny-bandwagon so they can take more freedoms away until we have none.
I would love to think it's just an excuse to tax us more, but I've been getting negative vibes on the issue since I became aware of it.

 

[Robino1]

~Accomplished~

 

[Ken_A]

Reminder: you can tweet all weekend if you missed on Friday....

 

[Ryedan]

Twittered, wayyyyy late, but done nonetheless, LOL.

I never heard astroturfing used this way before. Learned something new