Highly influential (and positive) article in Rolling Stone

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KrausAldo

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exploding devices, highly toxic, full of chemicals, diacetyl, formaldehyde, causing cancer, bronchiolitis obliterans, appealing to teens & kids, worse than tobacco, what else big tobacco companies will come up with next?
People are u still alive?! Am I talking with real persons or you all are ghosts?! :D
By the way how long do you vape?
 

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It's safely within the Official Narrative because he parrots that Big Lie that "480,000 Americans die from smoking each year." There will be no real progress until that Big Lie is confronted head-on, and the corrupted mess they've made of science is exposed and cleaned up.
 

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Oh snap!

I had no idea you even HAD a sense of humor Kent.
But that a top notch zinger right there!
:D

Kent is a good guy. We sometimes disagree politically, but I respect his opinions. We may argue about what should be done about things, but quite frequently we agree on what the problems are
 

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My opinion (that I hope is wrong)
This great article will will never be seen other than in RS or E-cig forums. My reason for saying this is... Have you ever watched the TV news? The dominant advertiser is Drug Commercials. Why would BP put up with Real News about a product that threatens their 'Territory'. Add to that our BG Controlled Media touting their latest PC agenda.
I hope I'm wrong but the RS article won't make a ripple, much less a splash.
 

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My opinion (that I hope is wrong)
This great article will will never be seen other than in RS or E-cig forums. My reason for saying this is... Have you ever watched the TV news? The dominant advertiser is Drug Commercials. Why would BP put up with Real News about a product that threatens their 'Territory'. Add to that our BG Controlled Media touting their latest PC agenda.
I hope I'm wrong but the RS article won't make a ripple, much less a splash.
I don't disagree with anything you just said, other than...

I do hope it makes some kind of splash in the right places.
And the right places these days seems to be the entertainment industry.

Lots of them smoke.
Lots of them are outspoken.
Lots of them have money to make a difference.

And, sadly, lots of people listen to them for some reason I will never understand.

I hope they get on board...
I'm looking at you Katherine Heigl and Leonardo DiCaprio.
 

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I really hope you are right and the 'Entertainment Tonight' crowd dive in. But without something in it for them I would question, Why.
I tend to agree, but still hope otherwise.

Their "handlers" probably tell them to stay quiet on this issue.
Wouldn't want to be seen as killing the childrens.

But some of them might go against the grain if they believe vaping saved their lives.
One can always hope.

EDIT: Duncan Hunter for President!!
EDIT: GOP lawmaker: E-cigs could 'very well save my life'
 

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I hear DiCaprio is requesting that Steve Harvey host the Oscars :laugh:

hehe saw this today:


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I believe the controling influence on the ecig issue are the excise taxes that fund public heatlh, education, local governments, etc. Those are the people whining the loudest. The article doesn't consider the corrupting influence of all that moey. Perhaps that can happen in a future article depending on what the regulatory restrictions turn out to be.
 
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I believe the controling influence on the ecig issue are the excise taxes that fund public heatlh, education, local governments, etc. Those are the people whining the loudest. The article doesn't consider the corrupting influence of all that moey. Perhaps that can happen in a future article depending on what the regulatory restrictions turn out to be.
It's a stealing from Peter to pay Paul situation.
We see money filter through insurance companies & government agencies to fight the negative effects of smoking, & these shadow profits corrupt the very institutions that are supposed to curb to greed of big pharmaceutical & big tobacco.

It's kind of like if everybody agreed with the NRA, the NRA would be out of business. They must keep the fight alive to prosper.
 
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It's kind of like if everybody agreed with the NRA, the NRA would be out of business. They must keep the fight alive to prosper.

There's this thing called 'eternal vigilance' that will never put them out of business. The Constitution was pretty much intact for 130 years before it began to be torn apart, and 160 years before it was put in the shredder.
 
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