In the mail today is a nice large envelope from the CDC with "CDC Health Issues 2014 Survey" plastered across the front. So I log onto the site and it says "Evaluation of the National tobacco Prevention and Control Public Education Screening Questionnaire." Hmm... this could be interesting. Asks a bunch of demographic questions then asks if anyone currently smokes. Nope. End of questions. Perhaps I should have lied?
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I meant I should have lied and said "yes, I still smoke" just to see the rest of the questions. I'm seriously curious to know if there are any e-cig related questions. No do-overs on this, tho.
Can you please scan and upload what you received? Also - do you have any idea why you might have been selected?
I don't wish to be intrusive, but my own sense is that the CDC has an agenda. It might be helpful if more information was available regarding this survey. TIA
I don't wish to be intrusive, but my own sense is that the CDC has an agenda. It might be helpful if more information was available regarding this survey. TIA
Can you please scan and upload what you received? Also - do you have any idea why you might have been selected?
I don't wish to be intrusive, but my own sense is that the CDC has an agenda. It might be helpful if more information was available regarding this survey. TIA
I'm unable to scan it. It's a generic 2-page form letter that was addressed to "To the Household at:" followed by my address. Page 1 says "CDC is creating a special new survey about certain heath issues." and gives the information on how to log in to see "if someone in your household is eligible for the survey." Guess not, since I got the boot after answering that no one here is still smoking. Funny how the words "special" and "certain" jumped out at me.
Page 2 is a general FAQ - who's sponsoring the survey, selection process (selected at random through a scientific process designed to accurately reflect the national population), etc.
Not intrusive at all. I have the same sense about the agenda, which is why I posted in the first place. I'd bet good money (and I don't gamble) that the research will somehow "prove" ecigs don't help smokers quit. Except that they are excluding ex smokers and are not asking "how DID you quit?"
You heard it here first.
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(So) Jersey Girl, I'm interested in knowing if the letter gave you an alternative to logging into their website. Did they offer you an 800# to call?
(Reason I ask is I live in a community where many of my neighbors do not have access to the internet.)
(I do hope they'll send me a letter. If so, I will immediate go find and smoke a cigarette so I can, with honesty, see what's in the survey!!
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(Reason I ask is I live in a community where many of my neighbors do not have access to the internet.)
(I do hope they'll send me a letter. If so, I will immediate go find and smoke a cigarette so I can, with honesty, see what's in the survey!!
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And by smoking, she means taking a drag, nearly dying on the terrible taste and immediately put it out. But it still counts lol
But according to the ANTZ you are still smoking, therefore it isn't lying to take their survey.
Aha, but that would be accepting their lie, that vaping is smoking.But according to the ANTZ you are still smoking, therefore it isn't lying to take their survey.
Right off the bat, the survey sounds bogus.By asking if you're a smoker straight up, you're eliminating anyone that was a smoker and quit, by any method. The best information they could get on e cigs, if indeed it enters the discussion, would be dual users or people that tried them and went back to smoking. It will be interesting to see the results of their "study".
If it has any information or statistics on e cigs, they should have started by asking if you smoked sometime, say, in the last 8 years. Now you've basically captured anyone who used e cigs. Now you can start getting a picture, with the right questions, of how successful smoking cessation is using e cigs.
The other thing I find interesting is the fact that they asked specifically about smoking, not tobacco use or for that matter tobacco or e cig use. As much as they use smoking and tobacco as interchangeable when they're spewing their propaganda, they were very specific about smoking and dropping you when you said you didn't smoke, even though the title of the study is, " Evaluation of the National Tobacco Prevention and Control Public Education Screening Questionnaire."
If it has any information or statistics on e cigs, they should have started by asking if you smoked sometime, say, in the last 8 years. Now you've basically captured anyone who used e cigs. Now you can start getting a picture, with the right questions, of how successful smoking cessation is using e cigs.
The other thing I find interesting is the fact that they asked specifically about smoking, not tobacco use or for that matter tobacco or e cig use. As much as they use smoking and tobacco as interchangeable when they're spewing their propaganda, they were very specific about smoking and dropping you when you said you didn't smoke, even though the title of the study is, " Evaluation of the National Tobacco Prevention and Control Public Education Screening Questionnaire."
I googled the title and found this link: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...xn-ThcdLnSu69YsurUsZubA&bvm=bv.67720277,d.cWc
You should get a window asking if you want to open a docx file titled "Attachment C-1 Screening Questionnaire 2-6-14 (Final) from www.reginfo.gov" which sounds like what you started to fill out, (So) Jersey Girl.
You should get a window asking if you want to open a docx file titled "Attachment C-1 Screening Questionnaire 2-6-14 (Final) from www.reginfo.gov" which sounds like what you started to fill out, (So) Jersey Girl.
AA- No 800 # listed. It says to go to friend or relative, an office, or the library if you don't have a computer or Internet access. And yes, that is the survey. I basically got booted after answering the question if anyone in the household still smokes and I said no. And I missed out on getting $20.00, which I guess was the prize for being selected. I never win anything, hence the reason I don't gamble.
Jim - it's legitimate. One of the questions asks if you smoked more than 100 in your lifetime. (Heck, I smoked more than that every week for almost 40 years.) I just don't know what they're looking into. As I said above, I'm seriously curious to find out if there's anything ecig related, given the CDC's history of manipulating data. I got the feeling when I read the part about the "special survey" and "certain" health issues that there's a hidden agenda. I wonder why that is? I guess we'll have to wait til the results are published to know for sure.
Jim - it's legitimate. One of the questions asks if you smoked more than 100 in your lifetime. (Heck, I smoked more than that every week for almost 40 years.) I just don't know what they're looking into. As I said above, I'm seriously curious to find out if there's anything ecig related, given the CDC's history of manipulating data. I got the feeling when I read the part about the "special survey" and "certain" health issues that there's a hidden agenda. I wonder why that is? I guess we'll have to wait til the results are published to know for sure.
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From near the end, sounds like they are trying to find out how many are seeing advertisements on mass media.
Could be the ANTZ ads and/or how e-cigarette ads are affecting people.
Could be the ANTZ ads and/or how e-cigarette ads are affecting people.
So they asked if you were an ever smoker (one that smoked more than 99 cigarettes in their lifetime). Check. They asked if you were a current smoker and you said no. Check Then you get excluded you. You'd think they'd want when and how you quit information if they wanted to get a picture of today's reality. My guess, they couldn't care less.
LOL... Oh man... I can see it now:
"100% of all eCig users who responded to our survey were dual users."
"100% of all eCig users who responded to our survey were dual users."
I think what their looking for is a profile of current smokers, age, ethnicity and socio-economic bracket.
I don't think this is about ecigs, though I suspect they will spin it somehow. It seems to be a simple profiling exercise.
I would love to see the rest of the questionnaire and judge if their just looking at why education as a measure has stalled at around 20% or if their looking at what might work on the 20% who ignore the information and smoke anyway.
Oh and yes I'm guessing, who knows what their really doing, could be useless buzzy work tbh.
I don't think this is about ecigs, though I suspect they will spin it somehow. It seems to be a simple profiling exercise.
I would love to see the rest of the questionnaire and judge if their just looking at why education as a measure has stalled at around 20% or if their looking at what might work on the 20% who ignore the information and smoke anyway.
Oh and yes I'm guessing, who knows what their really doing, could be useless buzzy work tbh.
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Exactly right.
They are very good at doing this.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/media-general-news/563140-cdc-tv-ad-2-500-dirty-trick.html
I suggest that people who received the survey write to CDC (like some of us did in response to that ad). I even got a response from them. Tell your story and send them a bunch of links to real studies.
You mean like the survey that proves ecigs don't help smokers quit because seeing blu commercials made smokers want to smoke?From near the end, sounds like they are trying to find out how many are seeing advertisements on mass media.
Could be the ANTZ ads and/or how e-cigarette ads are affecting people.
You'd think, wouldn't ya?
My gut feeling is that there will be some information ecig-related and it won't be pretty. Remember, you heard it here first.
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