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Request - please review ITV show 7:30p 1/23/14 [cross post]

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Well... this is not a review, as I don`t feel qualified to do such, but more of an observation.

There were so many inaccuracies, descrepencies and ambiguous reports that it is hard to know where to start!

In the first five minutes of the program the makers tried to do a brief description of how an e-cig works, the description was good enough however the diagram showing the three working parts of a "look alike" model was backwards! naming the cart as the battery and visa versa!

There then followed a quick report by someone from the WHO who kept insisting we don`t know enough about the "Toxins" in an e-cig to tell what long term harm they can do? ( I was unaware of these mythical "Toxins" and know what goes into my DIY e-juice :)

Then something disturbing... a report about a person who`s death "could or could not" be attributed to smoking something like an e-cig.
This was quite vague in telling the viewer exactly what this person was smoking as he was prescribed it by his GP after being a heavy smoker for years.

The post mortem was an open verdict with "suspicions" leading to a rare pneumonia called Lipo- Pneumonia Lipid pneumonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia thats results from inhaling oil droplets and was common to workers in heavy industry.

Now... where this oil came from was never established accurately however there were lots or references to the oil in e-juice!
This is pure scaremongering I believe as it was never established if this person was actually vaping a generic e-cig or was in fact on a prescription nebuliser using a medical equivilant of e-juice!
The reporter never questioned this and it was just passed over leaving the viewer to assume it was a generic e-cig and common or garden e-juice!

The majority of the last 15mins of the program was aimed at the advertising of e-cigs, mainly the fact that the current advertising can be seen by under 18`s and the concern some Mother had that the 4 kids in the back of her car could hear an e-cig advert on the radio!!
(switch the bloody radio off then love and concentrate on your driving ;-) )
The reporter did have a pop at British American Tobacco when allowed into their facility about them being hypocritical and entering the e-cig market purely for profit (but we know that anyway don`t we :) )
A final piece about the up coming EU debate, the fact that we in the UK have another two years to implement any decission and some random doctor moaning that he wants tests and regulation immediately (wonder who you have shares with then? )

All in all....

A non-event full of ambiguous hearsay, urban myth and pure speculation ....... I`m off to have a vape :)
 

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Hi
this is what I have sent to the ITV complaint department.


What was that on ecigs all you did was go on about the advertising of e,cigs where was all the facts about why they can help smokers change to a safer alternative.
There has been smokers using ecigs for years, why did you get some more feed back from them and there GPs and family's.
There had been smoker using them for years.
You pick up on one so called health link with one case that is probably has no link to ecigs. Where was the fact that many more still smoking tobacco had died.
I have been using ecigs for the last six months and feel better for it that I have for the last few plus years.
I think you have made a program that has to of been one of the worst factual program I have seen in years.
I suggest you revisit this topic again and do more in-depth research of what is in the liquids and you will find that most of the ingredients can de found in foods or the drugs industry.
Also you should of made it clear that nicotine is its self is no more harmful that coffee is.
You o it to the public to get this subject right it could save lives and save on the NHS budget.
Please dive deeper into this subject and give a more balanced over view.


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Andy Taylor
 

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I was heavily disappointed by it. I was hoping for a balanced, well documented, documentary that really answered the questions so many of the public obviously have about E-Cigs.

It focused far too much on "we don't know if they are safe" - "not enough study" and "save the children".

Not being funny, but EVERY website I have visited in relation to purchasing E-Cig products have an over 18's only warning - yet this program repeatedly stated a child could purchase vaping gear.

It probably did more harm than good, and would leave the average, uneducated "on the wall" type with more questions than answers.

Very disappointed indeed.
 

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what a waste of a good opportunity to get people off the fags for good if the facts were stated correctly a lot of good could of been done with that 1 tv programme instead it has tarnished the world of vaping a lot of lives could have been saved if they had of researched it a bit better but at least we wont change our mind long live the vape :evil:
 

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I watched this and like a previous poster stated they could not even explain the diagram correctly...........that's where I was going wrong, I was putting liquid in the battery......so glad I watched this programme :vapor:

Yeah I did spot that too, and all credibility just seemed to vanish from there on in...
 
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