I'm watching the local news waiting for the weather, and what do I see? A report that the California Department of Public Health said e cigarettes pose a public health threat to (OMG the children) with no rebuttal or other opinion shown. I got riled. So I fired off a letter to the Department, KESQ the local TV station, as well as Gov Jerry Brown and my state assemblyman and state senator.
This is my very first post at ECF. I'm not even sure how this works. But I've had so much help here from you guys with my vaping "hobby" which I absolutely love. I just wanted to say THANKS. I use the Istick, MVP, Spinners, Vivi Nova Mini tanks, and Kanger T2s. I started with Vuse, then Halo G6, then Halo Triton, then went to 510/ego threaded for the freedom. Anyway, here's my letter:
Dear KESQ,
I found your report on the California Department of Public Health's declaration that e cigarettes are a public health threat to be very one sided and not objective, in that the report did not include any spokesman to give any different perspective on vaping. Here is a copy of the letter I wrote to the Department and cc'd to the governor and my representatives in the state legislature.
1/28/2015
TO: California Department of Public Health
RE: E Cigarette Declaration of Threat
To Whom it May Concern,
I am writing in response to your declaration that e cigarettes are a health threat. This does not line up with the National Institutes of Healths survey of studies of e cigarettes that I read. I am not opposed to some reasonable regulation of e cigarettes and liquids. I am opposed to the spread of misinformation.
I have been an inveterate smoker of tobacco cigarettes for 42 years. I began vaping and within a month I lost all interest in smoking. I stopped smoking by accident.
It is true that e cigarettes are not risk free, just hugely less risky than smoking, and studies of nicotine alone have shown the drug to be relatively benign although addictive (thus nicotine replacement therapy is considered very low risk).
If you excessively restrict my access to e cigarettes, I may have to return to smoking tobacco cigarettes.
I am asking you to moderate your departments excessively negative, one-sided, uneducated, and alarmist position on the subject, as e cigarettes are providing a positive health benefit to a large group of former smokers.
Sincerely,
Christopher Marshall
This is my very first post at ECF. I'm not even sure how this works. But I've had so much help here from you guys with my vaping "hobby" which I absolutely love. I just wanted to say THANKS. I use the Istick, MVP, Spinners, Vivi Nova Mini tanks, and Kanger T2s. I started with Vuse, then Halo G6, then Halo Triton, then went to 510/ego threaded for the freedom. Anyway, here's my letter:
Dear KESQ,
I found your report on the California Department of Public Health's declaration that e cigarettes are a public health threat to be very one sided and not objective, in that the report did not include any spokesman to give any different perspective on vaping. Here is a copy of the letter I wrote to the Department and cc'd to the governor and my representatives in the state legislature.
1/28/2015
TO: California Department of Public Health
RE: E Cigarette Declaration of Threat
To Whom it May Concern,
I am writing in response to your declaration that e cigarettes are a health threat. This does not line up with the National Institutes of Healths survey of studies of e cigarettes that I read. I am not opposed to some reasonable regulation of e cigarettes and liquids. I am opposed to the spread of misinformation.
I have been an inveterate smoker of tobacco cigarettes for 42 years. I began vaping and within a month I lost all interest in smoking. I stopped smoking by accident.
It is true that e cigarettes are not risk free, just hugely less risky than smoking, and studies of nicotine alone have shown the drug to be relatively benign although addictive (thus nicotine replacement therapy is considered very low risk).
If you excessively restrict my access to e cigarettes, I may have to return to smoking tobacco cigarettes.
I am asking you to moderate your departments excessively negative, one-sided, uneducated, and alarmist position on the subject, as e cigarettes are providing a positive health benefit to a large group of former smokers.
Sincerely,
Christopher Marshall
