FoxNews.com article: Now The FDA Is Trying to Kill Smokers
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Well, at least from my personal perspective, that's the frank and honest truth right there in a nutshell.
Yes, it's an excellent article....and pretty much the same argument that Canadians have with Health Canada.
My daughter is working out something between her and her friends for YouTube addressing this, which was inspired by something read here and addressed to the FDA and other of the alphabet groups as a 'children of vapers' sort of deal with their first theme being "Why do you want to kill my mom?" I don't think they'll get to working on it seriously until after exams, but I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it. These high-school aged kids have more sense and are more interested in getting the facts than our politicians....which, I have to say, gives me some hope for the future. They certainly have more sense than most of the antz give them credit for, that's for sure.
Nice to see MSM starting to bring their own brand of pressure to this battle. Excellent!!
Weirdly, it seems like it's the right that's most in favor of E-cigarettes, while a greater percentage of liberals seem to be against it. And I say this as a liberal. As much as it galls me to say it, this seems to be one area that falls in line with FauxNews' right-leaning proclivities.
It's probably Rush Limbaugh's fault.
Jesus Christ.... I'd never though i'd say this about Fox News but bravo on this one, they actually did some real research on this one, and like minefield, i'm a liberal that usually hates Fox News...
Ecigs could kill big tobacco. Big tobacco + Federal government= BIG TAXES. Ecigs - taxes= Ecigs are bad for you. Occupy that. This is why you never see a full cigarette ban in the U.S.
you beat me to it! Big tobacco has their tendrils in everything and they use them to attack anything that may threaten their profits.....Similar situation with Big Alcohol and the legalization of the green stuff IMO.
Actually it makes perfect sense that this was seen on Fox.
Now it would have really been surprising if it had been on MSNBC
Liberal/Progressive = Bigger Government, More Regulations
Conservative = Smaller Government, More Self-Reliance
Libertarian = Even Smaller Government, Few Laws, Self-Reliance
Stossel is a Libertarian
Now it would have really been surprising if it had been on MSNBC
Liberal/Progressive = Bigger Government, More Regulations
Conservative = Smaller Government, More Self-Reliance
Libertarian = Even Smaller Government, Few Laws, Self-Reliance
Stossel is a Libertarian
Big Pharmaceutical companies + smoking related illnesses = BILLIONS of dollars in profit annually....!!!! Big tobacco is only part of the problem!!! If 50% of smokers didn't get cancer (just one of the illnesses that generates mass quantities of profit), some huge pharmaceutical companies would have to do some downsizing....
The thing to realize these days is they all just pick and choose from the AP Wire anyway.
Some journalists even post multiple versions of the same story (slant one right/slant one left) in hopes it'll get picked up and run. The 'issue' is usually buried 57 links into the story. The front page is all about Dems, Reps, and some stinking OPINION POLL.
Faux Talk, Fluffington Host...pick your poison. I really miss the old Kipling style of journalism. I miss having political stories that start out telling you the name and number of a resolution/bill/law so you can dig in and see what is REALLY going on and communicate with the 'proper office' to influence a lobby.
Both 'sides' usually ignore the actual issue and give you 50 paragraphs about their 'own polls' and plaster 'names, labels, and faces' all over everything. I really could care less if it's 'liberal/conservative/etc.'. We all know it's gonna have to be compromised to pass anyway...so why not focus on the issues, and what needs to happen to make things WORK?
Some journalists even post multiple versions of the same story (slant one right/slant one left) in hopes it'll get picked up and run. The 'issue' is usually buried 57 links into the story. The front page is all about Dems, Reps, and some stinking OPINION POLL.
Faux Talk, Fluffington Host...pick your poison. I really miss the old Kipling style of journalism. I miss having political stories that start out telling you the name and number of a resolution/bill/law so you can dig in and see what is REALLY going on and communicate with the 'proper office' to influence a lobby.
Both 'sides' usually ignore the actual issue and give you 50 paragraphs about their 'own polls' and plaster 'names, labels, and faces' all over everything. I really could care less if it's 'liberal/conservative/etc.'. We all know it's gonna have to be compromised to pass anyway...so why not focus on the issues, and what needs to happen to make things WORK?
I try like the blazes to avoid discussing politics anymore. But I dont think I'll get pounced on for saying this. There has been another force in politics for some time that folks are only recently beginning to catch on to. And that force is media. It has grown to the point where it can no longer control itself and is visibly coming apart at the seams. In an effort to distract from that implosion, media simply dials up the hyperbole and turns people against each other in the hopes that no-one will notice the mad dog behind the curtain pulling all the strings. Media is what is decaying and dying, not the west nor western civilization. Take away all the talking heads and TV cameras and folks would probably do much better. We would actually start talking to each other about any differences of opinion we might have, rather than listening to some bought and paid for loudmouth spout of about this enemy or that, all to sell more junk to one side or the other. Ack. I hate even thinking about this stuff.
Beware of anything you do not witness with your own eyes and ears.
Beware of anything you do not witness with your own eyes and ears.
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