New E-Cig Online Survey - PSU - Dec 20, 2012

[Shreck]

Taken. Hopefully this will help the community as we need more awareness instead of the closed minded people of this world.

 

[Gho_sam]

Done hopefully this helps to bring the community up

 

[Tyy1]

Were is this link I would like to take it. If you can send/post a link pppppplllleeeaaassseee

 

[skinkx]

Done! I agree with the others on the odd questions but I hope that this will help researchers and our cause.

 

[skinkx]

Were is this link I would like to take it. If you can send/post a link pppppplllleeeaaassseee

try here

https://redcap.ctsi.psu.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=v94cbA

 

[Killowatt]

Done, hope this helps get the correct info out to the antis.

 

[wingnut7785]

Survey has been completed..I hope it helps. Thank you.. William

 

[Big Screen D]

Survey taken.

 

[Boxer757]

Done and done

 

[nutnut]

Survey done!

 

[VClouds]

Add me to the list of Done.

Couldn't help but add quite a few comments on vague questions and a lot of suggestions at the end of areas not covered that should have been.

 

[DumbMunky]

Finished the survey, and I hope it helps keep them available on the market.

 

[Alexander Mundy]

Took the time to take the survey

 

[devauto]

It took a few minutes, but it's done now ...

 

[Cha0s13]

Just finished taking it.

 

[neofelis]

I just took this, I told them it was important to do further research into these "Steeeped tobacco" products.

I've been using El-Toro for about 1 week now. After vaping it for 10 minutes I could tell it contained Alkaloids and I feel further research is needed into these products.. A part of me is thinking they should be the first thing banned.

 

[bentpushrod]

Took the survey!

 

[mrpony]

The survey seems to be predicated to using an ecig in certain perimeters. Many of the questions didnt fit with the way I use mine,like the 15 puffs/10 minutes one.......I don't do either.i take a couple pulls and put it down.not like a cigarette,where you light it,smoke the whole thing and go on about your day.

 

[balwin]

I also found it interesting they were so concerned with if I purchased them from a convenience store, and did I want them to be the same size and appearance as a traditional cigarette... Perhaps someone is fishing to see what they can do to sell more of their overly expensive tobacco company e-cigs. Maybe I am a conspiracy nut but just saying a bunch of those questions sounded like a tobacco company was wanting answers...

 

[rolygate]

Well, any questions in these kinds of surveys could be used for commercial purposes. The whole thing has commercial value. However we are OK with people like Foulds and Etter using the material for any purpose they like, including commercial purposes, as they have done enough for us. There are many people in tobacco control who have morphed into anti-nicotine and anti-harm reduction activists; the researchers we allow to operate on ECF help us with providing a science base to fight the antis. Indeed Prof Etter, whose work we often support here, is doing a great deal to help us fight the pharmaceutical industry (typified by the W.H.O., the World pHarmaceutical Organisation) in the EU regulatory battle currently. This would be professional suicide for many in the field, and standing up to the industry that essentially controls research funding and many academic institutions takes far more courage than people appreciate. The community owes people with genuine courage, like these researchers, a significant debt of thanks. Some senior figures have had their careers within academia ended by standing up to pharma.

Regarding the mini ecig purchase choice, it is a subject of fascination to all who look at these issues: why people buy something that doesn't work very well; then, how they come to a decision to either upgrade or return to smoking. A vaper's journey, if you like. Why buy something that works about 25% as well as modern hardware; why/how they upgrade; why some fail and revert to smoking. In 30 year's time you'll find academic posts established with titles like Professor of Ecigarette Motivational Decisions, or the Endowed Chair of Electronic Cigarette Psychology, or something That'll be when the ecig business is so big, it outweighs big tobacco and competes with big pharma. Oh for a time machine...