Folks, I am at a loss for words. My segment has banned vaporizers (even nicotine free units) from being used everywhere cigarettes are currently prohibited.I am a commercial sailor, I live 8 months out of the year on a ship. These ships have designated smoking areas. I have been going back and forth with the company for three days now trying to get them to rethink their position, but have so far been unsuccessful.
The gentleman who wrote the policy read one story on the WHO website and decided with the stroke of a pen and the tap of a keyboard to make my life difficult.He doesn't seem to get that using a vapor pen is not the same as using a cigarette... I can't take one break once an hour to suck down a cancer stick. I use my device 1-2 puffs every 10 minutes. He doesn't understand that the nicotine uptake is completely different with these devices.With my first email to him, I at least got him to concede to separate assigned areas for the few of us who are vapers, so we don't have to deal with the second hand smoke. But I've been trying to poke holes in his logic in each subsequent email, but his cognitive dissonance is very strong.
The policy as written states "Smoking means use of smoke or vapor producing nicotine delivery products.".. I then asked him what would be the policy on devices that have no nicotine, as you can get nicotine free juice. He stated that they can still have trace chemicals that are unsafe, so they're the same. I pointed out that without nicotine, vapor devices are no more than food items using food ingredients, and that if he has an issue with those ingredients, they're going to have to seriously rethink what they feed us, because people are eating this stuff every day from the galley.
I have sent links to studies, tests, double blind peer reviewed experiments, but he obviously won't even bother to read them. I pointed out that the few Government tests that have produced the results he is so concerned about were conducted on pre-filled cartridges from China, which had only trace amounts of TSNA's (in the parts per billion range), and that it was pushed by big tobacco because they're losing their profits as vapers leave their customer base. I mentioned that US made juice, especially from a AEMSA certified merchant, is much safer than the overseas cartridges that have been tested by the FDA. I gave him several PDF's of recent studies and tests, including one recent peer-reviewed study by BMC that showed there is no 2nd hand effects with vaporizers.
I am at a loss at where to go next. The corporate wide policy does not have anything about vaporizers on the books, but somehow this individual thought it was necessary to go "above and beyond" to because of a few things he read.
Any advice is appreciated, talking points and such (although I feel as I've already covered most of it).I am not going to mention my company's name, but it is the USA.
The gentleman who wrote the policy read one story on the WHO website and decided with the stroke of a pen and the tap of a keyboard to make my life difficult.He doesn't seem to get that using a vapor pen is not the same as using a cigarette... I can't take one break once an hour to suck down a cancer stick. I use my device 1-2 puffs every 10 minutes. He doesn't understand that the nicotine uptake is completely different with these devices.With my first email to him, I at least got him to concede to separate assigned areas for the few of us who are vapers, so we don't have to deal with the second hand smoke. But I've been trying to poke holes in his logic in each subsequent email, but his cognitive dissonance is very strong.
The policy as written states "Smoking means use of smoke or vapor producing nicotine delivery products.".. I then asked him what would be the policy on devices that have no nicotine, as you can get nicotine free juice. He stated that they can still have trace chemicals that are unsafe, so they're the same. I pointed out that without nicotine, vapor devices are no more than food items using food ingredients, and that if he has an issue with those ingredients, they're going to have to seriously rethink what they feed us, because people are eating this stuff every day from the galley.
I have sent links to studies, tests, double blind peer reviewed experiments, but he obviously won't even bother to read them. I pointed out that the few Government tests that have produced the results he is so concerned about were conducted on pre-filled cartridges from China, which had only trace amounts of TSNA's (in the parts per billion range), and that it was pushed by big tobacco because they're losing their profits as vapers leave their customer base. I mentioned that US made juice, especially from a AEMSA certified merchant, is much safer than the overseas cartridges that have been tested by the FDA. I gave him several PDF's of recent studies and tests, including one recent peer-reviewed study by BMC that showed there is no 2nd hand effects with vaporizers.
I am at a loss at where to go next. The corporate wide policy does not have anything about vaporizers on the books, but somehow this individual thought it was necessary to go "above and beyond" to because of a few things he read.
Any advice is appreciated, talking points and such (although I feel as I've already covered most of it).I am not going to mention my company's name, but it is the USA.
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