Rockdale Commissioners: Don't confuse us with facts; our minds are made up.

[Vocalek]

During citizens' comments at the end of the meeting, which followed commissioners' vote, Julie Anderson, a member of CASAA, The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association, said it doesn't make sense to include smokeless tobacco and smoke-free products in the ordinance. Electronic cigarettes have not been shown to be a danger as far as secondhand smoke, she said. Anderson said she smoked two packs a day for 35 years and, "If it weren't for these I'd still be smoking, so it's important to get people to quit, but taking away an alternative for them that's not harmful for bystanders is sometimes, I think, shortsighted."


Anderson and Barbara Malenfont drove all the way from Augusta to be at the meeting. Malenfont works at Victorious Vapors, an electronic cigarette and "vape" shop in Augusta. She said if not for electronic cigarettes she would not be alive today, as she was previously on oxygen "24/7." She said the bystander won't experience any more impact from an electronic than they would from inhaling the vapor from a pot of spaghetti cooking. The products used in electronic cigarettes are used in items like lip balm and at hospitals to freshen the air, she said.



Commissioners did not respond to the comments and did not alter the ordinance.

Rockdale Citizen | Tobacco ban in parks approved

 

[Petrodus]

Commissioners did not respond to the comments and did not alter the ordinance.

Many who wish to ban e-cigarettes do so NOT based on any harm
but based on their private agendas. The private agenda is often
they do not even want to see anything that would even remind them
of smoking (period).

When these IDIOTS are given proof e-smoking doesn't cause any harm ...
They won't even discuss the subject ... Because the ban on e-cigarettes
really has NOTHING to do with health concerns ... ONLY their childlike agendas.

This is the reason I wouldn't be a good candidate to speak at these meetings.
I would say ... "Were you born and Idiot or did you have to take classes"

 

[VapApe]

I believe its more childish than child like. Fingers in their ears eyes closed and going la la la la at the top of their voices.