Mainstream Media having impact on general public opinion on E-cigs (My personal study)

[Petrodus]

I'm not at all surprised by your little survey. There has been a large amount to bad information put out by people we are supposed to be able to trust.

The same thing has been happening with smokeless tobacco for decades. I wonder how many e-cig users think smokeless tobacco is just as risky as cigarettes. I would guess a whole lot of new people coming into vaping are greatly misinformed, and likely a lot of experienced users. Just repeat the same lie over and over and it is excepted as the truth.

Standard Operating Procedure for our elected officials.
In most cases it's very effective.

 

[Anjaffm]

Woohoo, AgentAnia, I love it! and
And yes, they are busily destroying any credibility that they may have once had

 

[DrMA]

....
nicotine gum is great, shes quit 5 times with it, nicotine gum works! I politely answer,"Oh well with vaping I've only quit ONCE, guess its not as good as the gum." ....

That is hilarious . Here's what I'd say to that:

E-cigs have helped more smokers quit than FDA tobacco regulations and FDA approved drugs ALL combined.

 

[Anjaffm]

Quote Originally Posted by Bill Godshall
E-cigs have helped more smokers quit than FDA tobacco regulations and FDA approved drugs ALL combined.

Including those - like me - who never had any intention of quitting smoking in the first place

 

[Petrodus]

Quote Originally Posted by Bill Godshall
E-cigs have helped more smokers quit than FDA tobacco regulations and FDA approved drugs ALL combined.

Convincing reason for why the FDA would find it very difficult
to justify coming down hard on the ecig industry.

I suggest the FDA wishes they never heard about e-cigarettes


By the way ...
"Mainstream media" is just a soft PC term for State Run Media

 

[jpargana]

(...)
The funniest reply I've ever heard was a woman telling me that nicotine gum is great, shes quit 5 times with it, nicotine gum works!
(...)

"... on the other hand, my diet does not work so well... I don't understand it; I'm always on diet... until the next meal, that is..."

 

[Uma]

I have a question. I probably have facts mixed up in my memory, so don't me k.
If it's true that the smokers have dwindled down to only 400,000, becoming a minority, and the tobacco companies only make a buck or two off each pack with the rest going to court ordered health orgs and taxes (10 bucks a pack in ny for instance), then how do they figure the tobacco industry to be raking in the billions of dollars? Something just doesn't add up. Wouldn't they be an 800,000 per year industry?

 

[Anjaffm]

Uma, dear, I think the figure 400,000 is mentioned in connection with annual deaths associated with smoking tobacco.

 

[AgentAnia]

Uma, dear, I think the figure 400,000 is mentioned in connection with annual deaths associated with smoking tobacco.

Yes. I see it quoted variously as 400,000 and 440,000. The latest population figure I could find is 314 million, so if smokers = 19%, that comes out to 59,660,000 smokers. Of course, remember these are just statistics that someone came up with, but who knows if they're accurate?

 

[Uma]

ok, that makes more sense. Thanks for straightening out my fried memory.

Is this coincidence or what??! Read Dr. Ross's article just posted here at ECF. http://acsh.org/2013/11/e-cigarettes-gateway-nowhere-slope-slippery/