Really positive article, National Review

[cdsaint66]

The Anti-E-Cigarette Conspiracy | National Review Online

I enjoyed this one. Favorite pull quote:

"A particularly galling irony is that almost all the pompous hype calling for ever-tighter restrictions and even outright bans emanates from the “liberal” Democratic camp, which has over the years been sympathetic to other forms of harm reduction, such as condoms for HIV positives and clean needles for addicts. But it’s “nicotine abstinence only” for smokers: Quit or die, they say."

 

[LoveVanilla]

Very good article. Thanks for sharing. Let's only hope such thoughtful and reasoned logic based on known facts can prevail. Unfortunately seems we're seeing an increasingly trend in public life where money rules and ideology trumps fact. Alias, our democracy. Let's hope we can reverse these trends before it ends badly.

 

[skoony]

thanks for the link.
mike

 

[Kent C]

I liked:

"The FDA’s partner in such malfeasance, the CDC, has stooped to manipulating youth tobacco-survey data to promote the anti-e-cig agenda, loudly alerting concerned parents that e-cig use among teens had doubled between 2011 and 2012. The head of the CDC, Tom Frieden, conveniently neglected to note that almost all the young people who had experimented with e-cigs were previously tobacco users. Even more revelatory, the official announcement lacked the key datum that during this ostensible epidemic of teen nicotine addiction, smoking rates among teens fell significantly, even more than they had fallen over the previous few years."

and....

".....a nearly hysterical response by the media to an outrageously deceptive “study” published last week by the formerly esteemed JAMA Pediatrics."

Junk science....

National Review and Reason magazine have chimed in on our side. Waiting for the New Republic, to do the same... waiting....

 

[DrMA]

Gill Ross is always so refreshing .

 

[Lucky1384]

Great article! I've always found such organisations classing vaping as tobacco use much like calling kids alcoholics who are addicted to wine because they love eating grapes!

 

[icebat]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[AgentAnia]

Ross's article doesn't tell *us* anything we didn't already know, but it's satisfying to see more and more of these eye-opening articles appear -- coming down hard on regulators, legislators, and zealots and pointing out how their zealotry is driving away supporters.

Thanks for posting, cdsaint66, and well done, Dr. Ross!

 

[Uma]

Great article! I've always found such organisations classing vaping as tobacco use much like calling kids alcoholics who are addicted to wine because they love eating grapes!

Grapes, the gateway to wino's. Love it!

Outstanding article, thanks for posting this!

 

[mostlyclassics]

Dr. Ross's article certainly has garnered a bunch of responses. As of early Thursday afternoon, there were 307 comments, about 90% favorable.