I'm asking for your help! Newspaper wants my reaction to FDA release.

[MaxxVapor]

The Birmingham News, the largest newspaper in the state of Alabama wants my reaction to the FDA release yesterday.

This paper is very influential considering the size of this state.

I need stuff that is short, concise and to the point. The hardest thing I will address is about the carcinogens.

Any help about what possible questions may be asked or should I just make a statement without getting into details and specifics.

I'm asking you guys to help me formulate an effective response.

Thanks in advance!

Maxx

 

[SantanzChild]

I think I would get intouch with some of the ECA guys. They should have some fact sheets or something to go along.

 

[MaxxVapor]

Great advice, I'm talking with them now. Thanks.

Maxx

 

[SantanzChild]

Let us know how it goes and where to find the article when its published.

 

[AGNES PEACOCK]

The Birmingham News, the largest newspaper in the state of Alabama wants my reaction to the FDA release yesterday.

This paper is very influential considering the size of this state.

I need stuff that is short, concise and to the point. The hardest thing I will address is about the carcinogens.

Any help about what possible questions may be asked or should I just make a statement without getting into details and specifics.

I'm asking you guys to help me formulate an effective response.

Thanks in advance!

Maxx

You don't say for sure, are they requesting an interview or a written statement. I don't know your personal style/ability/comfort of public speaking ability. Not knowing you personally, (and please don't take offense,) but it seems you are not up to date on all the facts of the new information and prepared with rebutal. Maybe just stick with a written statement with facts that are widely known here to be true. Then deferring to the ECA. Are you a member? I have not been keeping up with what they are doing, but I would assume they would be able to give you the best information and suggestions. Hopefully, someone higher up on the membership will quickly come along and give you advise.

 

[AGNES PEACOCK]

Good to hear you are already in contact with the ECA. And glad to see other's here with a quicker response suggesting the same.

 

[usamare]

Here's my knee-jerk response...Best to check with the ECA, but this sort of approach may be appropriate:

They aren't saying anything that we didn't already know.
E-cigarettes are an alternative to smoking, and are 100 times to 1000 times safer than smoking. The nicotine in them is extracted from tobacco, so there's zero surprise that some tobacco chemicals are present. It has been maintained all along that they are tobacco products.

Since the FDA didn't include the results or didn't fully test their control subject (nicontrol inhaler), they are apparently comparing the safety of the e-cigarette to the safety of pure clean air (prior to the industrial revolution).

We are all well aware that e-cigarettes are more dangerous than nothing. The argument has ALWAYS been that they are much safer than smoking tobacco cigarettes. Sadly, the FDA is not interested in terms like 'safer' 'much safer' 'over one hundred times safer'. The FDA is not interested in seeing the death-rate from smoking go from 475,000 to 4,750. Look at those numbers. With that level of safety, deaths from eating too many doughnuts would be more of a concern.

These people know full well that they are presenting e-cigarettes as being more dangerous than smoking tobacco cigarettes. In doing so they are helping to insure the deaths of 470,000 Americans each year. Their refusal to show the relative dangers to allow Americans to make well informed decisions is simply criminal.

 

[LaceyUnderall]

For anyone in need:

Please feel free to use Response To The FDA | Electronic Cigarette Association. This is the ECA's official position. You can use it in your blogs, your comments to the media, what have you.

If you could provide a link to the ECA where possible that would be awesome (and that allows any of your readers who might be in the media to contact Matt directly!)

 

[happily]

get specific info on how the carcinogens are related to other nrt's and cigarettes and find what other beneficial products the are in.

be specific

 

[yvilla]

Use Dr. Siegel's rebuttal too:

The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary: Tobacco-Specific Carcinogens Found in Nicotine Replacement Products; Will Anti-Smoking Groups Call for Removal of these Products from the Market?

 

[rustiangel]

Go here comment, plead our case

FDA Deems E-Cigs As Bad As The Real Thing

And here:

FDA Deems E-Cigs As Bad As The Real Thing - electronic cigarette - Gizmodo

 

[MaxxVapor]

I'm not sure if I need to mention individual names (you know who you are) here but I received some excellent information, was able to stay on topic and show our side thanks to the help of the ECA.

I have been on the fence about joining the ECA mainly because of our company being new but I wouldn't have been able to do as well without them. I'll definitely give it another look.

On a side note, the reporter said he was very intrigued and remarked that the story would be fair. The information we were able to share, thanks to the ECA should make for a compelling story if the article is fair.

I'll post a copy as soon as it runs. I'm sure it will be soon.

Thanks again ECA!

Maxx

 

[Vista Chris]

I'm not sure if I need to mention individual names (you know who you are) here but I received some excellent information, was able to stay on topic and show our side thanks to the help of the ECA.

I have been on the fence about joining the ECA mainly because of our company being new but I wouldn't have been able to do as well without them. I'll definitely give it another look.

On a side note, the reporter said he was very intrigued and remarked that the story would be fair. The information we were able to share, thanks to the ECA should make for a compelling story if the article is fair.

I'll post a copy as soon as it runs. I'm sure it will be soon.

Thanks again ECA!

Maxx

Great job Maxx

We have set up a dedicated section at our blog for this specific info, anything you have I can add would be much appreciated. We've had alot of members contribute already.

Been going round the clock gathering info.

It's here: FDA claims vs. the Truth

Thanks!

 

[Thulium]

Well, I don't know about you, but MY reaction to the FDA release is unmitigated anger. I'm absolutely incredulous that the FDA would have the audacity to release this report that actually shows that e-cigarettes are less dangerous than most FDA approved Nicotine Replacement Therapies and fabricate the finding that they are "as dangerous as cigarettes".

Please excuse my emotionality, but this is outrageous. The FDA basically found that e-juice is slightly more toxic than water. (The LD50 of water is 90ml/kg, while diethylene glycol's LD50 is 12g/kg) The FDA is referring to vaporizing devices as a "drug" and utilizing obvious scare tactics and exaggeration by comparing diethylene glycol (that is already limited by the FDA to less than .2%) to the ethylene glycol in antifreeze. There is no acknowledgement in the report that the amounts of each of these chemicals is so low that its barely even detectable, much less the fact that e-cigs use very small amounts of e-juice in the first place and the FDA mentions nothing about the disinfectant properties of Propylene Glycol.

 

[malyden]

you may want to get ahold of Spikey here's the link to her post here on an editorial she's writing http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/campaigning/28246-facts-regarding-fda-press-release-7-22-repost-2.html#post440175

 

[Kate51]

Some Good points here>>
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...e-brian-williams-nbc-news-fda.html#post438260

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...e-brian-williams-nbc-news-fda.html#post438260

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...e-brian-williams-nbc-news-fda.html#post438260