From CNN.com Today/Eissenberg study with feedback

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Whitbit

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I did sign up. I did confirm that I signed up. I am logged in (my screen name is displayed at the top.) But I still cannot comment. Can you do so? How long ago did you sign up? Maybe they have turned off commenting because they got too many from us?

hmmm, I signed up about an hour ago.. and I can still reply and comment. Did you activate it from your email?
 

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Clear cookies and cashe, try a differnt browser like IE. Pray. 100% UE
 
I watched as the feds came into Austin and closed down the gun show that had been going on for years. This country is different than the one we knew 20 years ago the government really doesnt need alot of proof just a few lies they can throw around and they can do what they want. They created the whole H1N1 scare then when people didnt take the antivirus due to mercury they tried to get people to believe that it was good for kids. They just keep it up. I cant remember for sure what leader said it but I believe it was "It is easier to make the masses believe a huge lie than a small one". I might be wrong but I think it was Hitler.
 

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While CNN should have done more thorough research and as a result provided a more balanced story, the blame shouldn't really be focused on them. They are just reporting on the preliminary results of a very flawed study, and the results of the FDA's limited, biased, and therefore also flawed tests.

The study tested people who have never used ecigs, gave them substandard hardware in an unknown state of readiness, and measured their nicotine levels after 10 puffs of 16mg. Everybody here knows there's a learning curve to using an ecig. We all know that there is crappy hardware out there. We all know that even with good hardware, you need to have it setup correctly (proper wicking material well-filled with liquid in good contact with the bridge). With all those variables, and with test subjects who are probably there just to get paid and can't wait to get out of there so they can just light up their cigarettes, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?!? You have to WANT to quit smoking and have to WANT to try ecigs while putting forth the effort to give them a real shot at working for you. Without any of those things, the results aren't surprising at all.

P.S. I would just love to see some video of the test subjects attempts at vaping. Also, would love to inspect the hardware that they were given. With those two things, I'll bet it wouldn't be surprising at all that they didn't get any nicotine. Maybe the study should have hired some vaping consultants to source the hardware and set it up to be functional - that is, if they actually wanted honest and realistic results...
 
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I am not sure if you have been keeping up with the news but some of the latest bills that have been put up are if you are heard saying anything bad about the government you can been put in jail for up to 10 years. So now we will have no free speech this is to protect us from the terrorist i guess.


what??? why dont we all just commit mass suicide then, or move to africa? rofl
 
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