Has the pedulum swung in our direction?

[the_vape_nerd]

I can't help but notice that lately I'm seeing more and more articles that are somewhat positive or at least neutral in the reporting on vaping. If you compare it to six months ago, it is sort of refreshing to see that the first line in mainstream news isn't that ecigs contain "toxins used in antifreeze" anymore.

Now obviously this is going to be a long fight and there is still much to do, but I've seen articles that both Canada and the EU are rethinking their positions on this. And in the U.S., we have new B&Ms opening all over and at least they are approaching us for our side of the argument. Even the FDA has postponed what they thought they were going to be able to get away with.

It also seems to me that many of the fights we've had on the local and state level have gone in our favor though there are a few exceptions.

Many thanks to the CASAA people, ECF. that Boston doctor..and all the common ecfers. We seem to be gaining traction.

Anyone agree?

Anyone disagree?

 

[llamainmypocket]

Yeah. Well, they tried and proved that they don't even have the most basic understanding of logic. All the criticism was based upon arguments originally designed for cigarettes such as the, "you don't know what's in those things" argument. Or the, "they haven't been proven to not be unsafe". Or the subjective premise such as "we are concerned that people may think these are safer than cigarettes. I think they just realized that they are ......ed and just shut up.

In the meantime, big pharma and big tobacco realized that e cigarettes aren't going anywhere so they may as well engage in "pac-man" defense, according to BloombergTv that is when you gobble up what you fear may kill you. There no telling how much negative publicity came from big business and now that they have skin in the game they may be pumping positive studies and stories.