Dear Mr. Salmon,
I want to lend my support to the efforts to promote the safe manufacturing and responsible marketing of electronic cigarettes. I was a smoker for 30 years, since the age of 15, and I NEVER thought I could quit. I truly thought it was impossible and that I was going to give my life to cigarettes.
I got to the point where every single day, every single cigarette, was preying on my mind with thoughts of the healthier and longer life I could live if I could quit smoking. I finally went to my doctor and was given a prescription for Chantix. I was able to quit in spite of the side effects but my feelings were that I was going to be fighting this addiction for the rest of my life, whether I smoked or not, and the high failure rate of quitting was looming over me. When I discovered electronic cigarettes they were the answer to my prayers. I now had an alternative to going back to smoking. I am still smoke-free after 2 months and I am very confident that I will never smoke tobacco again.
My mother died of lung cancer and I took care of her through the end with the help of Hospice. My heart breaks that e-cigarettes were not an option for her and it should be a national source of shame that our government is willing to deny millions of people a healthier option to tobacco for reasons that have little basis in fact and that are highly suspect.
Some people seem to always need a cause, some way to impose their ideas on others, some way to feel their superiority over the masses of ignorant people that need decisions made for them. I am on the side of personal choice. Smokers know that tobacco is unhealthy and have let themselves be pounded into the ground and virtually outlawed as people because how can they defend their choice when they KNOW it is harmful to themselves? Electronic cigarettes are a choice that we can get behind and defend and we desperately need a voice that can be heard and, more importantly, listened to.
Thank you,
(I will be drafting this letter to my California government and others too)
I want to lend my support to the efforts to promote the safe manufacturing and responsible marketing of electronic cigarettes. I was a smoker for 30 years, since the age of 15, and I NEVER thought I could quit. I truly thought it was impossible and that I was going to give my life to cigarettes.
I got to the point where every single day, every single cigarette, was preying on my mind with thoughts of the healthier and longer life I could live if I could quit smoking. I finally went to my doctor and was given a prescription for Chantix. I was able to quit in spite of the side effects but my feelings were that I was going to be fighting this addiction for the rest of my life, whether I smoked or not, and the high failure rate of quitting was looming over me. When I discovered electronic cigarettes they were the answer to my prayers. I now had an alternative to going back to smoking. I am still smoke-free after 2 months and I am very confident that I will never smoke tobacco again.
My mother died of lung cancer and I took care of her through the end with the help of Hospice. My heart breaks that e-cigarettes were not an option for her and it should be a national source of shame that our government is willing to deny millions of people a healthier option to tobacco for reasons that have little basis in fact and that are highly suspect.
Some people seem to always need a cause, some way to impose their ideas on others, some way to feel their superiority over the masses of ignorant people that need decisions made for them. I am on the side of personal choice. Smokers know that tobacco is unhealthy and have let themselves be pounded into the ground and virtually outlawed as people because how can they defend their choice when they KNOW it is harmful to themselves? Electronic cigarettes are a choice that we can get behind and defend and we desperately need a voice that can be heard and, more importantly, listened to.
Thank you,
(I will be drafting this letter to my California government and others too)
