I agree, nice job, too bad you didn't have a lot more support.
Hopefully next time you won't be the lone voice crying out in the wilderness.
New proposal for Indianapolis smoking ban includes e-cigs (possible January 9th vote!)
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Hopefully next time you won't be the lone voice crying out in the wilderness.
I'd suggest copying the mayor, Gregory A. Ballard, on any correspondence. I've been doing this every time I contact a municipality. It can't hurt. He has a form-
Contact Us
You can copy and paste your email to the council persons into the form to submit.
We really need Indy people stepping to the plate here.
Contact Us
You can copy and paste your email to the council persons into the form to submit.
We really need Indy people stepping to the plate here.
Thanks. Here is the letter I sent to everyone. Much has been copied from a letter Kristin wrote. Thanks Kristin!
Dear Indianapolis City Council Members:
I am writing you to ask that you revise Prop 18 to not include electronic cigarettes (personal vaporizers) in the ban, since electronic cigarettes do not emit smoke, they pose none of the health risks imposed by secondhand smoke.
Several organizations that oppose any usage of tobacco or nicotine have attempted to ban the use of e-cigarettes in other cities & states by inaccurately claiming that using an e-cigarette is "smoking" and inaccurately claiming that the water vapor mist emitted by e-cigarettes is smoke.
I am 42 years old and had been a pack-a-day smoker for over 26 years. I have tried many times to quit, both cold turkey and using pharmaceutical nicotine cessation products. I've quit for months at a time, but I always started smoking again.
In November 2010, I purchased an electronic cigarette. (Even though I was not highly motivated to quit smoking.) I have now been smoke-free for over 14 months! I found immediately that I no longer wanted to smoke traditional cigarettes and quitting traditional cigarettes was extremely easy and painless. I have converted over a dozen smokers to e-cigarettes, and all breathe better, no longer have "smoker's cough" and feel overall improved health and stamina.
E-cigarettes are easily distinguishable from traditional cigarettes, as many models do not look like traditional cigarettes. My device is silver & looks like a flashlight. There is no smoke, no ash, no embers, no offensive odor, no side stream smoke from the tip and no butts. I once tried a traditional cigarette after using the e-cigarette for a few months and it tasted especially foul - something that didn't happen when quitting with traditional methods. I cannot imagine ever enjoying the taste of smoking again as long as I have my e-cigarette. I truly believe these devices are the miracle smokers and non-smokers alike have been hoping for and millions of lives will be saved as smokers switch to this reduced harm alternative. I believe so strongly in them that it has made me an activist for the first time in my 42 years.
There is ample scientific evidence and scientific opinion, as well as the testimony of hundreds of thousands of real-world users, to support electronic cigarettes as reasonably safe and effective; and there has been no evidence showing e-cigarettes pose a public health risk for users, bystanders or youth.
Feel free to contact me for any questions you may have.
Thank you.
Dear Indianapolis City Council Members:
I am writing you to ask that you revise Prop 18 to not include electronic cigarettes (personal vaporizers) in the ban, since electronic cigarettes do not emit smoke, they pose none of the health risks imposed by secondhand smoke.
Several organizations that oppose any usage of tobacco or nicotine have attempted to ban the use of e-cigarettes in other cities & states by inaccurately claiming that using an e-cigarette is "smoking" and inaccurately claiming that the water vapor mist emitted by e-cigarettes is smoke.
I am 42 years old and had been a pack-a-day smoker for over 26 years. I have tried many times to quit, both cold turkey and using pharmaceutical nicotine cessation products. I've quit for months at a time, but I always started smoking again.
In November 2010, I purchased an electronic cigarette. (Even though I was not highly motivated to quit smoking.) I have now been smoke-free for over 14 months! I found immediately that I no longer wanted to smoke traditional cigarettes and quitting traditional cigarettes was extremely easy and painless. I have converted over a dozen smokers to e-cigarettes, and all breathe better, no longer have "smoker's cough" and feel overall improved health and stamina.
E-cigarettes are easily distinguishable from traditional cigarettes, as many models do not look like traditional cigarettes. My device is silver & looks like a flashlight. There is no smoke, no ash, no embers, no offensive odor, no side stream smoke from the tip and no butts. I once tried a traditional cigarette after using the e-cigarette for a few months and it tasted especially foul - something that didn't happen when quitting with traditional methods. I cannot imagine ever enjoying the taste of smoking again as long as I have my e-cigarette. I truly believe these devices are the miracle smokers and non-smokers alike have been hoping for and millions of lives will be saved as smokers switch to this reduced harm alternative. I believe so strongly in them that it has made me an activist for the first time in my 42 years.
There is ample scientific evidence and scientific opinion, as well as the testimony of hundreds of thousands of real-world users, to support electronic cigarettes as reasonably safe and effective; and there has been no evidence showing e-cigarettes pose a public health risk for users, bystanders or youth.
Feel free to contact me for any questions you may have.
Thank you.
And she did.
I talked to her for over 3 hours.
She was very interested in getting it right.
The "vap" instead of "vape" is kinda funny though...
The "vap" instead of "vape" is kinda funny though...
I know. I kept seeing "vamp" (...and liked it
).Thanks for all you've done, Almighty!!!
Well it appears that tonight is the night! The council plans to vote on this and Councilwoman Mansfield expects to get an unamended version through. Mayor Ballard has said he will veto without Councilman Vaughn's amendment which removes e-cigs from the mix as well as letting private clubs do as they see fit. Keeping my fingers crossed. I sent email messgaes to all of the members plus Mayor Ballard and Mr. Vaughn got back to me the same night. He said he was actively working on this amendment and also understood our position. Going to be an interesting few days. Brew
http://www.indystar.com/article/20120130/LOCAL18/201300319/Indy-Mayor-Greg-Ballard-threatens-veto-smoking-ban-set-council-vote-tonight?odyssey=obinsite
http://www.indystar.com/article/20120130/LOCAL18/201300319/Indy-Mayor-Greg-Ballard-threatens-veto-smoking-ban-set-council-vote-tonight?odyssey=obinsite
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I sent the following letter to council members, and urge others to do so ASAP (as they may vote this evening).
You can also send one at Contact Us
From: Bill Godshall
To: Leroy Robinson ; Pamela Hickman ; Zach Adamson ; Benjamin Hunter ; Jeff Miller ; John Barth ; Aaron Freeman ; Jack Sandlin ; Jeff Cardwell ; Jason Holliday ; Frank Mascari ; Vernon Brown ; Mary Moriarty Adams ; Brian Mahern ; Vop Osili ; Marilyn Pfisterer ; Mike McQuillen ; Steve Talley ; William Oliver ; Joseph Simpson ; Monroe Gray ; Janice McHenry ; Virginia Cain ; Christine Scales ; Angela Mansfield ; Jose Evans ; Ryan Vaughn ; Maggie Lewis
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 5:44 PM
Subject: Eliminate e-cigarettes from proposed smoking ban, then enact the ordinance
Indianapolis Marion County Council Members,
Please remove electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) from the proposed smokefree workplace ordinance since e-cigarettes emit NO smoke and pose no harm to nonusers, and because more than a million smokers have quit smoking and/or significantly reduced cigarette consumption by switching to these far less hazardous smokefree alternatives.
Since the proposed smokefree ordinance would ban smoking in just several hundred workplaces (primarily bars) in Marion County (that currently allow smoking), but would ban e-cigarette use in hundreds of thousands of workplaces, the proposed ordinance could do more harm than good for public health unless e-cigarette use is removed from the definition of "smoking".
Besides, it is insincere to falsely define "smoking" as including the use of smokefree e-cigarettes, but that's what the proposed ordinance does.
As one who has campaigned to ban smoking in workplaces for the past 25 years, I've also been urging smokers to switch to e-cigarettes and/or other smokefree tobacco/nicotine products since they are far less hazardous than cigarettes and because they pose no health risks to nonusers (unlike cigarettes). Although some anti tobacco extremists want to ban the use of all tobacco/nicotine products, that is an entirely different matter than banning indoor smoking.
In 2006, I coauthored a comprehensive scientific report "Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers" at HRJ | Full text | Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers and in 2007 the Royal College of Physicians
issued a similar report "Harm reduction in nicotine addiction; Helping people who can't quit" at
http://www.tobaccoprogram.org/pdf/4fc74817-64c5-4105-951e-38239b09c5db.pdf. Epidemiology studies have consistently found that cigarette smoking poses 100 times greater morbidity and mortality risks than use of smokeless tobacco products in the US and Sweden, and the available evidence indicates that all noncombustible tobacco/nicotine products (including e-cigarettes, nicotine gums, lozenges, patches) are also about 99% less hazardous alternatives to cigarettes.
Smokers who switch to smokefree tobacco/nicotine products reduce their health risks nearly as much as smokers who quit all tobacco/nicotine usage, and several million smokers in the US have already switched to smokeless tobacco products, e-cigarettes and/or NRT products.
More than one million smokers in the US have quit smoking or sharply reduced their cigarette consumption by switching to or substituting smokefree e-cigarettes. To date, there is no evidence that e-cigarette usage has harmed anyone, which is logical since the products emit a tiny amount of vaporized nicotine (similar to nicotine inhalers that are marketed as smoking cessation aids) and water vapor. All of the dozen plus laboratory tests conducted on e-cigarettes found that e-cigarettes emit no hazardous levels of any constitutents, and that levels of nitrosamines in e-cigarettes are nearly identical (i.e. very little if any) to those in nicotine gums and patches.
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/RuyanCartridgeReport30-Oct-08.pdf
http://www.starscientific.com/404/stepanov tsna in.pdf
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/DublinEcigBenchtopHandout.pdf
http://www.casaa.org/files/Study_TSNAs_in_NJOY_Vapor.pdf
Lab Reports / E Liquid Facts / Totally Wicked
http://cdn.johnsoncreeksmokejuice.com/downloads/JCE_GCMS_Report.pdf
http://www.libertystix.com/LibertyStixLabAnalysis072309.pdf
http://truthaboutecigs.com/science/8.pdf
http://www.casaa.org/files/Exponent Response-to-the-FDA-Summary.pdf
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf
Taylor & Francis Online :: ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE CARTRIDGES, REFILL SOLUTIONS, AND SMOKE FOR NICOTINE AND NICOTINE RELATED IMPURITIES - Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies - Volume 34, Issue 14
A Literature Review for Glycerol and Glycols for Entertainment Services & Technology Association also found no health risks to humans http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/working_groups/FS/docs/HSE.pdf, while new pharmacology, pharmacokinetic and toxicology studies at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X11002095 found that laboratory animals were not harmed by very high levels of propylene glycol aerosol.
E-cigarettes also have been found to contain/emit similar or lower levels of nicotine than nicotine gums and lozenges
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/2010 Bullen ECig.pdf and http://www.casaa.org/files/Virgiania Commonwealth University Study.pdf. This indicates that e-cigarettes emit enough to satisfy the cravings of smokers, but may not emit enough nicotine to addict nonsmokers. There is no evidence that any youth or non-tobacco users have become addicted to e-cigarettes.
Many published surveys have confirmed that e-cigarettes satisfy the cravings of smokers, help many smokers quit and/or sharply reduce cigarette consumption, and provide perceived health benefits to users who switched from cigarettes.
Sign In
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-10-231.pdf
THR2010. (tobaccoharmreduction.org) (see chapter 9)
http://ectoh.org/documents/3B.5 Ett...ation satisfaction and perceived efficacy.pdf
http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/AMEPRE/AMEPRE3013.pdf
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs): views of af... [Int J Clin Pract. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
Electronic Cigarettes
A Japanese study similarly found e-cigarettes to be effective for decreasing cigarette consumption SEIKATSUEISEI : Vol. 55 (2011) , No. 1 p.59-64, while a recent case study found e-cigarettes effective for smoking cessation among depressed patients Paper: Smoking Cessation with E-Cigarettes in Smokers with a Documented History of Depression and Recurring Relapses.
A recent e-cigarette clinical trial on smokers at CASAA.org found that 22.5% of participants remained smokefree after 24 weeks and another 32.5% of participants reduced daily cigarette consumption by 50%, including 12.5% who reduced daily cigarette consumption by 80%.
Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler has also acknowledged the benefits of smokeless tobacco, dissolvables and e-cigarettes as less hazardous alternatives for cigarette smokers at http://www.westport-news.com/busine...-Commissioner-talks-about-tobacco-1735433.php by stating "there's no doubt that in terms of risk of death there are some advantages to that substitution."
Other public health organizations that have extensively studied e-cigarettes have also endorsed their use by smokers, including The American Association of Public Health Physicians Regulations.gov and the American Council on Science and Health NEJM editorial: e-cigarette users should resume smoking for their own good > Facts & Fears > ACSH.
In sharp contrast to indoor smokefree policies/laws (which are largely self enforced because of broad public support), please note that it is also impossible to enforce an e-cigarette usage ban (since the products can be used discreetly without anyone else knowing). By simply waiting two seconds before exhaling, no visible vapor is exhaled by e-cigarette users, and as such, nobody will know that anyone is even using an e-cigarette. Enacting unwarranted and unenforceable regulations also would reduce the public credibility of the Indianopolis Marion County Council.
Once again, please remove the use of e-cigarettes from the proposed ordinance's definition of "smoking", and then enact the smokefree ordinance.
Sincerely,
William T. Godshall, MPH
Executive Director
Smokefree Pennsylvania
1926 Monongahela Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15218
412-351-5880
smokefree@compuserve.com
You can also send one at Contact Us
From: Bill Godshall
To: Leroy Robinson ; Pamela Hickman ; Zach Adamson ; Benjamin Hunter ; Jeff Miller ; John Barth ; Aaron Freeman ; Jack Sandlin ; Jeff Cardwell ; Jason Holliday ; Frank Mascari ; Vernon Brown ; Mary Moriarty Adams ; Brian Mahern ; Vop Osili ; Marilyn Pfisterer ; Mike McQuillen ; Steve Talley ; William Oliver ; Joseph Simpson ; Monroe Gray ; Janice McHenry ; Virginia Cain ; Christine Scales ; Angela Mansfield ; Jose Evans ; Ryan Vaughn ; Maggie Lewis
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 5:44 PM
Subject: Eliminate e-cigarettes from proposed smoking ban, then enact the ordinance
Indianapolis Marion County Council Members,
Please remove electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) from the proposed smokefree workplace ordinance since e-cigarettes emit NO smoke and pose no harm to nonusers, and because more than a million smokers have quit smoking and/or significantly reduced cigarette consumption by switching to these far less hazardous smokefree alternatives.
Since the proposed smokefree ordinance would ban smoking in just several hundred workplaces (primarily bars) in Marion County (that currently allow smoking), but would ban e-cigarette use in hundreds of thousands of workplaces, the proposed ordinance could do more harm than good for public health unless e-cigarette use is removed from the definition of "smoking".
Besides, it is insincere to falsely define "smoking" as including the use of smokefree e-cigarettes, but that's what the proposed ordinance does.
As one who has campaigned to ban smoking in workplaces for the past 25 years, I've also been urging smokers to switch to e-cigarettes and/or other smokefree tobacco/nicotine products since they are far less hazardous than cigarettes and because they pose no health risks to nonusers (unlike cigarettes). Although some anti tobacco extremists want to ban the use of all tobacco/nicotine products, that is an entirely different matter than banning indoor smoking.
In 2006, I coauthored a comprehensive scientific report "Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers" at HRJ | Full text | Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers and in 2007 the Royal College of Physicians
issued a similar report "Harm reduction in nicotine addiction; Helping people who can't quit" at
http://www.tobaccoprogram.org/pdf/4fc74817-64c5-4105-951e-38239b09c5db.pdf. Epidemiology studies have consistently found that cigarette smoking poses 100 times greater morbidity and mortality risks than use of smokeless tobacco products in the US and Sweden, and the available evidence indicates that all noncombustible tobacco/nicotine products (including e-cigarettes, nicotine gums, lozenges, patches) are also about 99% less hazardous alternatives to cigarettes.
Smokers who switch to smokefree tobacco/nicotine products reduce their health risks nearly as much as smokers who quit all tobacco/nicotine usage, and several million smokers in the US have already switched to smokeless tobacco products, e-cigarettes and/or NRT products.
More than one million smokers in the US have quit smoking or sharply reduced their cigarette consumption by switching to or substituting smokefree e-cigarettes. To date, there is no evidence that e-cigarette usage has harmed anyone, which is logical since the products emit a tiny amount of vaporized nicotine (similar to nicotine inhalers that are marketed as smoking cessation aids) and water vapor. All of the dozen plus laboratory tests conducted on e-cigarettes found that e-cigarettes emit no hazardous levels of any constitutents, and that levels of nitrosamines in e-cigarettes are nearly identical (i.e. very little if any) to those in nicotine gums and patches.
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/RuyanCartridgeReport30-Oct-08.pdf
http://www.starscientific.com/404/stepanov tsna in.pdf
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/DublinEcigBenchtopHandout.pdf
http://www.casaa.org/files/Study_TSNAs_in_NJOY_Vapor.pdf
Lab Reports / E Liquid Facts / Totally Wicked
http://cdn.johnsoncreeksmokejuice.com/downloads/JCE_GCMS_Report.pdf
http://www.libertystix.com/LibertyStixLabAnalysis072309.pdf
http://truthaboutecigs.com/science/8.pdf
http://www.casaa.org/files/Exponent Response-to-the-FDA-Summary.pdf
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf
Taylor & Francis Online :: ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE CARTRIDGES, REFILL SOLUTIONS, AND SMOKE FOR NICOTINE AND NICOTINE RELATED IMPURITIES - Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies - Volume 34, Issue 14
A Literature Review for Glycerol and Glycols for Entertainment Services & Technology Association also found no health risks to humans http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/working_groups/FS/docs/HSE.pdf, while new pharmacology, pharmacokinetic and toxicology studies at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X11002095 found that laboratory animals were not harmed by very high levels of propylene glycol aerosol.
E-cigarettes also have been found to contain/emit similar or lower levels of nicotine than nicotine gums and lozenges
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/2010 Bullen ECig.pdf and http://www.casaa.org/files/Virgiania Commonwealth University Study.pdf. This indicates that e-cigarettes emit enough to satisfy the cravings of smokers, but may not emit enough nicotine to addict nonsmokers. There is no evidence that any youth or non-tobacco users have become addicted to e-cigarettes.
Many published surveys have confirmed that e-cigarettes satisfy the cravings of smokers, help many smokers quit and/or sharply reduce cigarette consumption, and provide perceived health benefits to users who switched from cigarettes.
Sign In
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-10-231.pdf
THR2010. (tobaccoharmreduction.org) (see chapter 9)
http://ectoh.org/documents/3B.5 Ett...ation satisfaction and perceived efficacy.pdf
http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/AMEPRE/AMEPRE3013.pdf
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs): views of af... [Int J Clin Pract. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
Electronic Cigarettes
A Japanese study similarly found e-cigarettes to be effective for decreasing cigarette consumption SEIKATSUEISEI : Vol. 55 (2011) , No. 1 p.59-64, while a recent case study found e-cigarettes effective for smoking cessation among depressed patients Paper: Smoking Cessation with E-Cigarettes in Smokers with a Documented History of Depression and Recurring Relapses.
A recent e-cigarette clinical trial on smokers at CASAA.org found that 22.5% of participants remained smokefree after 24 weeks and another 32.5% of participants reduced daily cigarette consumption by 50%, including 12.5% who reduced daily cigarette consumption by 80%.
Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler has also acknowledged the benefits of smokeless tobacco, dissolvables and e-cigarettes as less hazardous alternatives for cigarette smokers at http://www.westport-news.com/busine...-Commissioner-talks-about-tobacco-1735433.php by stating "there's no doubt that in terms of risk of death there are some advantages to that substitution."
Other public health organizations that have extensively studied e-cigarettes have also endorsed their use by smokers, including The American Association of Public Health Physicians Regulations.gov and the American Council on Science and Health NEJM editorial: e-cigarette users should resume smoking for their own good > Facts & Fears > ACSH.
In sharp contrast to indoor smokefree policies/laws (which are largely self enforced because of broad public support), please note that it is also impossible to enforce an e-cigarette usage ban (since the products can be used discreetly without anyone else knowing). By simply waiting two seconds before exhaling, no visible vapor is exhaled by e-cigarette users, and as such, nobody will know that anyone is even using an e-cigarette. Enacting unwarranted and unenforceable regulations also would reduce the public credibility of the Indianopolis Marion County Council.
Once again, please remove the use of e-cigarettes from the proposed ordinance's definition of "smoking", and then enact the smokefree ordinance.
Sincerely,
William T. Godshall, MPH
Executive Director
Smokefree Pennsylvania
1926 Monongahela Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15218
412-351-5880
smokefree@compuserve.com
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For those who want to send a quick e-mail to Indy council members, here are the e-mail addresses of the council members.
If you haven't done so yet, please contact them now.
Comma separated email list:
zach.adamson@indy.gov, jbarth53@hotmail.com, pahickman@gmail.com, leroy.robinson@indy.gov, info@evansforindy.com, angelamansfield@aol.com, vaughnforcouncil@gmail.com, cscales_2000@yahoo.com, CainforCouncil@aol.com, jfmchenry@iquest.net, maggie.lewis@indy.gov, monroe.gray@indy.gov, joseph.simpson@indy.gov, william.oliver@indy.gov, talleyjs@aol.com, mike@mikemcquillen.com, cpfist1061@aol.com, voposili@gmail.com, brian@mahern.net, mmadams@iquest.net, VABrown2022@yahoo.com, jeff030167@indy.rr.com, frank.mascari@indy.gov, bdhunter@sbcglobal.net, jasonholliday131@aol.com, jcardwell@cardwellhomecenter.com, jack.sandlin@att.net, aaronfreemanlaw@gmail.com
Semi-colon separated email list:
zach.adamson@indy.gov; jbarth53@hotmail.com; pahickman@gmail.com; leroy.robinson@indy.gov; info@evansforindy.com; angelamansfield@aol.com; vaughnforcouncil@gmail.com; cscales_2000@yahoo.com; CainforCouncil@aol.com; jfmchenry@iquest.net; maggie.lewis@indy.gov; monroe.gray@indy.gov; joseph.simpson@indy.gov; william.oliver@indy.gov; talleyjs@aol.com; mike@mikemcquillen.com; cpfist1061@aol.com; voposili@gmail.com; brian@mahern.net; mmadams@iquest.net; VABrown2022@yahoo.com; jeff030167@indy.rr.com; frank.mascari@indy.gov; bdhunter@sbcglobal.net; jasonholliday131@aol.com; jcardwell@cardwellhomecenter.com; jack.sandlin@att.net; aaronfreemanlaw@gmail.com
If you haven't done so yet, please contact them now.
Comma separated email list:
zach.adamson@indy.gov, jbarth53@hotmail.com, pahickman@gmail.com, leroy.robinson@indy.gov, info@evansforindy.com, angelamansfield@aol.com, vaughnforcouncil@gmail.com, cscales_2000@yahoo.com, CainforCouncil@aol.com, jfmchenry@iquest.net, maggie.lewis@indy.gov, monroe.gray@indy.gov, joseph.simpson@indy.gov, william.oliver@indy.gov, talleyjs@aol.com, mike@mikemcquillen.com, cpfist1061@aol.com, voposili@gmail.com, brian@mahern.net, mmadams@iquest.net, VABrown2022@yahoo.com, jeff030167@indy.rr.com, frank.mascari@indy.gov, bdhunter@sbcglobal.net, jasonholliday131@aol.com, jcardwell@cardwellhomecenter.com, jack.sandlin@att.net, aaronfreemanlaw@gmail.com
Semi-colon separated email list:
zach.adamson@indy.gov; jbarth53@hotmail.com; pahickman@gmail.com; leroy.robinson@indy.gov; info@evansforindy.com; angelamansfield@aol.com; vaughnforcouncil@gmail.com; cscales_2000@yahoo.com; CainforCouncil@aol.com; jfmchenry@iquest.net; maggie.lewis@indy.gov; monroe.gray@indy.gov; joseph.simpson@indy.gov; william.oliver@indy.gov; talleyjs@aol.com; mike@mikemcquillen.com; cpfist1061@aol.com; voposili@gmail.com; brian@mahern.net; mmadams@iquest.net; VABrown2022@yahoo.com; jeff030167@indy.rr.com; frank.mascari@indy.gov; bdhunter@sbcglobal.net; jasonholliday131@aol.com; jcardwell@cardwellhomecenter.com; jack.sandlin@att.net; aaronfreemanlaw@gmail.com
Please post your support of the Veto on Prop 18 on Mayor Ballards Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MayorGregB...feed_comment_reply#!/MayorGregBallard?sk=wall
His Twitter name is: @mayorballard
His Twitter name is: @mayorballard
A decision is expected today!
Keep on posting on the Mayor's FB page!
Tweet like crazy!
Keep on posting on the Mayor's FB page!
Tweet like crazy!
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I sent the following letter on January 31st.
Dear Mayor Ballard:
Although I've campaigned to ban smoking in workplaces for the past 25 years, I urge you to veto the smoking ban approved by the city/county council because it unjustifiably and disingenuously bans the use of smokefree electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), which emit no smoke and have helped more than a million smokers quit smoking.
The ordinance could do more harm than good for public health unless e-cigarettes are removed because the ordinance bans smoking in several hundred workplaces (mostly bars/clubs) that still allow smoking, but bans e-cigarette use in hundreds of thousands of workplaces in Marion County.
Although e-cigarettes emit NO smoke, the council approved ordinance falsely and deceitfully defines "smoking" as including the use of e-cigarettes.
In 2006, I coauthored a comprehensive scientific report "Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers" at HRJ | Full text | Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers and in 2007 the Royal College of Physicians
issued a similar report "Harm reduction in nicotine addiction; Helping people who can't quit" at http://www.tobaccoprogram.org/pdf/4fc74817-64c5-4105-951e-38239b09c5db.pdf.
Epidemiology studies have consistently found that cigarette smoking poses 100 times greater morbidity and mortality risks than use of smokeless tobacco products in the US and Sweden, and the available evidence indicates that all noncombustible tobacco/nicotine products (including e-cigarettes, nicotine gums, lozenges, patches) are also about 99% less hazardous alternatives to cigarettes.
Smokers who switch to smokefree tobacco/nicotine products reduce their health risks nearly as much as smokers who quit all tobacco/nicotine usage, and several million smokers in the US have already switched to smokeless tobacco products, e-cigarettes and/or NRT products.
More than one million smokers in the US have quit smoking or sharply reduced their cigarette consumption by switching to or substituting smokefree e-cigarettes. To date, there is no evidence that e-cigarette usage has harmed anyone, which is logical since the products emit a tiny amount of vaporized nicotine (similar to nicotine inhalers that are marketed as smoking cessation aids) and water vapor. All of the dozen plus laboratory tests conducted on e-cigarettes found that e-cigarettes emit no hazardous levels of any constitutents, and that levels of nitrosamines in e-cigarettes are nearly identical (i.e. very little if any) to those in nicotine gums and patches.
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/RuyanCartridgeReport30-Oct-08.pdf
http://www.starscientific.com/404/stepanov tsna in.pdf
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/DublinEcigBenchtopHandout.pdf
http://www.casaa.org/files/Study_TSNAs_in_NJOY_Vapor.pdf
Lab Reports / E Liquid Facts / Totally Wicked
http://cdn.johnsoncreeksmokejuice.com/downloads/JCE_GCMS_Report.pdf
http://www.libertystix.com/LibertyStixLabAnalysis072309.pdf
http://truthaboutecigs.com/science/8.pdf
http://www.casaa.org/files/Exponent Response-to-the-FDA-Summary.pdf
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf
Taylor & Francis Online :: ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE CARTRIDGES, REFILL SOLUTIONS, AND SMOKE FOR NICOTINE AND NICOTINE RELATED IMPURITIES - Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies - Volume 34, Issue 14
A Literature Review for Glycerol and Glycols for Entertainment Services & Technology Association also found no health risks to humans http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/working_groups/FS/docs/HSE.pdf, while new pharmacology, pharmacokinetic and toxicology studies at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X11002095 found that laboratory animals were not harmed by very high levels of propylene glycol aerosol.
E-cigarettes also have been found to contain/emit similar or lower levels of nicotine than nicotine gums and lozenges
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/2010 Bullen ECig.pdf and http://www.casaa.org/files/Virgiania Commonwealth University Study.pdf. This indicates that e-cigarettes emit enough to satisfy the cravings of smokers, but may not emit enough nicotine to addict nonsmokers. There is no evidence that any youth or non-tobacco users have become addicted to e-cigarettes.
Many published surveys have confirmed that e-cigarettes satisfy the cravings of smokers, help many smokers quit and/or sharply reduce cigarette consumption, and provide perceived health benefits to users who switched from cigarettes.
http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/05/12/ntr.ntr088.full.pdf+html
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-10-231.pdf
THR2010. (tobaccoharmreduction.org) (see chapter 9)
http://ectoh.org/documents/3B.5 Ett...ation satisfaction and perceived efficacy.pdf
http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/AMEPRE/AMEPRE3013.pdf
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs): views of af... [Int J Clin Pract. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
Electronic Cigarettes
A recently published e-cigarette study at CASAA.org found that 22.5% of participating smokers remained smokefree after 24 weeks and another 32.5% of participants reduced daily cigarette consumption by 50%, including 12.5% who reduced daily cigarette consumption by 80%.
A Japanese study similarly found e-cigarettes to be effective for decreasing cigarette consumption
SEIKATSUEISEI : Vol. 55 (2011) , No. 1 p.59-64, while a recent case study found e-cigarettes effective for smoking cessation among depressed patients http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=6134&publishStatus=2.
Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler has also acknowledged the benefits of smokeless tobacco, dissolvables and e-cigarettes as less hazardous alternatives for cigarette smokers at http://www.westport-news.com/busine...-Commissioner-talks-about-tobacco-1735433.php by stating "there's no doubt that in terms of risk of death there are some advantages to that substitution."
Other public health organizations that have extensively studied e-cigarettes have also endorsed their use by smokers, including The American Association of Public Health Physicians Regulations.gov and the American Council on Science and Health NEJM editorial: e-cigarette users should resume smoking for their own good > Facts & Fears > ACSH.
In sharp contrast to indoor smokefree policies/laws (which are largely self enforced because of broad public support), please note that it is also impossible to enforce an e-cigarette usage ban (since the products can be used discreetly without anyone else knowing). By simply waiting two seconds before exhaling, no visible vapor is exhaled by e-cigarette users, and as such, nobody will know that anyone is even using an e-cigarette. Enacting unwarranted and unenforceable regulations also would reduce the public credibility of the Indianapolis Marion County Government.
Once again, please veto the council approved ordinance because it bans the use of e-cigarettes in hundreds of thousands of workplaces.
Sincerely,
William T. Godshall, MPH
Executive Director
Smokefree Pennsylvania
1926 Monongahela Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15218
412-351-5880
smokefree@compuserve.com
Dear Mayor Ballard:
Although I've campaigned to ban smoking in workplaces for the past 25 years, I urge you to veto the smoking ban approved by the city/county council because it unjustifiably and disingenuously bans the use of smokefree electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), which emit no smoke and have helped more than a million smokers quit smoking.
The ordinance could do more harm than good for public health unless e-cigarettes are removed because the ordinance bans smoking in several hundred workplaces (mostly bars/clubs) that still allow smoking, but bans e-cigarette use in hundreds of thousands of workplaces in Marion County.
Although e-cigarettes emit NO smoke, the council approved ordinance falsely and deceitfully defines "smoking" as including the use of e-cigarettes.
In 2006, I coauthored a comprehensive scientific report "Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers" at HRJ | Full text | Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers and in 2007 the Royal College of Physicians
issued a similar report "Harm reduction in nicotine addiction; Helping people who can't quit" at http://www.tobaccoprogram.org/pdf/4fc74817-64c5-4105-951e-38239b09c5db.pdf.
Epidemiology studies have consistently found that cigarette smoking poses 100 times greater morbidity and mortality risks than use of smokeless tobacco products in the US and Sweden, and the available evidence indicates that all noncombustible tobacco/nicotine products (including e-cigarettes, nicotine gums, lozenges, patches) are also about 99% less hazardous alternatives to cigarettes.
Smokers who switch to smokefree tobacco/nicotine products reduce their health risks nearly as much as smokers who quit all tobacco/nicotine usage, and several million smokers in the US have already switched to smokeless tobacco products, e-cigarettes and/or NRT products.
More than one million smokers in the US have quit smoking or sharply reduced their cigarette consumption by switching to or substituting smokefree e-cigarettes. To date, there is no evidence that e-cigarette usage has harmed anyone, which is logical since the products emit a tiny amount of vaporized nicotine (similar to nicotine inhalers that are marketed as smoking cessation aids) and water vapor. All of the dozen plus laboratory tests conducted on e-cigarettes found that e-cigarettes emit no hazardous levels of any constitutents, and that levels of nitrosamines in e-cigarettes are nearly identical (i.e. very little if any) to those in nicotine gums and patches.
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/RuyanCartridgeReport30-Oct-08.pdf
http://www.starscientific.com/404/stepanov tsna in.pdf
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/DublinEcigBenchtopHandout.pdf
http://www.casaa.org/files/Study_TSNAs_in_NJOY_Vapor.pdf
Lab Reports / E Liquid Facts / Totally Wicked
http://cdn.johnsoncreeksmokejuice.com/downloads/JCE_GCMS_Report.pdf
http://www.libertystix.com/LibertyStixLabAnalysis072309.pdf
http://truthaboutecigs.com/science/8.pdf
http://www.casaa.org/files/Exponent Response-to-the-FDA-Summary.pdf
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf
Taylor & Francis Online :: ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE CARTRIDGES, REFILL SOLUTIONS, AND SMOKE FOR NICOTINE AND NICOTINE RELATED IMPURITIES - Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies - Volume 34, Issue 14
A Literature Review for Glycerol and Glycols for Entertainment Services & Technology Association also found no health risks to humans http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/working_groups/FS/docs/HSE.pdf, while new pharmacology, pharmacokinetic and toxicology studies at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X11002095 found that laboratory animals were not harmed by very high levels of propylene glycol aerosol.
E-cigarettes also have been found to contain/emit similar or lower levels of nicotine than nicotine gums and lozenges
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/2010 Bullen ECig.pdf and http://www.casaa.org/files/Virgiania Commonwealth University Study.pdf. This indicates that e-cigarettes emit enough to satisfy the cravings of smokers, but may not emit enough nicotine to addict nonsmokers. There is no evidence that any youth or non-tobacco users have become addicted to e-cigarettes.
Many published surveys have confirmed that e-cigarettes satisfy the cravings of smokers, help many smokers quit and/or sharply reduce cigarette consumption, and provide perceived health benefits to users who switched from cigarettes.
http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/05/12/ntr.ntr088.full.pdf+html
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-10-231.pdf
THR2010. (tobaccoharmreduction.org) (see chapter 9)
http://ectoh.org/documents/3B.5 Ett...ation satisfaction and perceived efficacy.pdf
http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/AMEPRE/AMEPRE3013.pdf
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs): views of af... [Int J Clin Pract. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
Electronic Cigarettes
A recently published e-cigarette study at CASAA.org found that 22.5% of participating smokers remained smokefree after 24 weeks and another 32.5% of participants reduced daily cigarette consumption by 50%, including 12.5% who reduced daily cigarette consumption by 80%.
A Japanese study similarly found e-cigarettes to be effective for decreasing cigarette consumption
SEIKATSUEISEI : Vol. 55 (2011) , No. 1 p.59-64, while a recent case study found e-cigarettes effective for smoking cessation among depressed patients http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=6134&publishStatus=2.
Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler has also acknowledged the benefits of smokeless tobacco, dissolvables and e-cigarettes as less hazardous alternatives for cigarette smokers at http://www.westport-news.com/busine...-Commissioner-talks-about-tobacco-1735433.php by stating "there's no doubt that in terms of risk of death there are some advantages to that substitution."
Other public health organizations that have extensively studied e-cigarettes have also endorsed their use by smokers, including The American Association of Public Health Physicians Regulations.gov and the American Council on Science and Health NEJM editorial: e-cigarette users should resume smoking for their own good > Facts & Fears > ACSH.
In sharp contrast to indoor smokefree policies/laws (which are largely self enforced because of broad public support), please note that it is also impossible to enforce an e-cigarette usage ban (since the products can be used discreetly without anyone else knowing). By simply waiting two seconds before exhaling, no visible vapor is exhaled by e-cigarette users, and as such, nobody will know that anyone is even using an e-cigarette. Enacting unwarranted and unenforceable regulations also would reduce the public credibility of the Indianapolis Marion County Government.
Once again, please veto the council approved ordinance because it bans the use of e-cigarettes in hundreds of thousands of workplaces.
Sincerely,
William T. Godshall, MPH
Executive Director
Smokefree Pennsylvania
1926 Monongahela Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15218
412-351-5880
smokefree@compuserve.com
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Indy Star editorial on city/county and state smoking ban proposals fails to even mention e-cigarettes.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012202010309
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012202010309
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