Silliest article ever, maybe

[Shan123]

Khaleej Times Online - Hazardous e-cigarette Smoked out of Market

The excerpt that made my head explode:

[FONT="]Dr Al Maidoor said to date there is no study that could prove that the e-cigarette can be used as a therapy to [/FONT][FONT="]
[/FONT][FONT="]quit smoking.[/FONT][/I]
[I][FONT="]On the contrary, e-cigarette “will encourage smoking more and more,” especially among children, because “they can easily hide it as there is no fume and no smoke. [/FONT]
[FONT="]“Even if the father is sitting nearby, they can smoke and hide it in their pocket. It is very dangerous as it could encourage users to smoke more and more,” she emphasised.[/FONT][/I]
[I][FONT="]She also warned that “it will cause high addiction because there are no filters” and could also encourage “the habit of drug addiction.”[/FONT]

Sorry, just had to share. Google News isn't always your friend...

 

[opuscroakus]

[FONT="]“Even if the father is sitting nearby, they can smoke and hide it in their pocket."
[/FONT]
This is hilarious! Reminds me of "Monk" this week when he gave a visitor to his house a smoking bag.

 

[paulspikey]

I love MONK...hes freakin hilarious.

 

[Magestorm]

Isn't that the place where Garfield mails Nermal to? Ahbu Dabi?

Of couse they don't want people vaping there. Muslim country that espouses a hatred for the US but still listens to the US FDA? methinks they been smoking something more brain scrambling than tobacco there, friends.

 

[Psyko1]

Wow, she must be the same person who wrote ...... Madness. 1 toke will turn you into a drug crazed homicidal maniac! Some people are just plain brain dead.

 

[Shan123]

Wow, she must be the same person who wrote ...... Madness. 1 toke will turn you into a drug crazed homicidal maniac! Some people are just plain brain dead.

LOL. You MUST see Showtime's "...... Madness: The Movie Musical" if you have not already.

 

[BigJimW]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Display...gust/theuae_August322.xml&section=theuae&col=
[FONT="]Dr Al Maidoor said to date there is no study that could prove that the e-cigarette can be used as a therapy to [/FONT][FONT="]
[/FONT][FONT="]quit smoking.[/FONT][/I]
[I][FONT="]On the contrary, e-cigarette “will encourage smoking more and more,” especially among children, because “they can easily hide it as there is no fume and no smoke. [/FONT]
[FONT="]“Even if the father is sitting nearby, they can smoke and hide it in their pocket. It is very dangerous as it could encourage users to smoke more and more,” she emphasised.[/FONT][/I]
[I][FONT="]She also warned that “it will cause high addiction because there are no filters” and could also encourage “the habit of drug addiction.”[/FONT]

My brain hurt reading that. Thanks for the laugh.

 

[Computer Extreme]

I like that there is no way to rebuke anything there, no way to comment or otherwise expose their misconceptions.

 

[PlanetScribbles]

Remember that this is a country where one cannot hold one's spouse's hand in public. Nothing surprises me in SheikhMohammedLand. I would never go there anyway, as you can never be sure if you are breaking some asinine law that was passed in the previous 24hrs lol
A country based on absolute and total control by the state.

 

[BigJimW]

A country based on absolute and total control by the state.

Sounds like the United States to me. It's evolving to it.

 

[PlanetScribbles]

Sounds like the United States to me. It's evolving to it.

I was gonna say that, but I thought i'd let you have it

 

[Territoo]

Khaleej Times Online - Hazardous e-cigarette Smoked out of Market

The excerpt that made my head explode:

[FONT="]Dr Al Maidoor said to date there is no study that could prove that the e-cigarette can be used as a therapy to [/FONT][FONT="]
[/FONT][FONT="]quit smoking.[/FONT][/I]
[I][FONT="]On the contrary, e-cigarette “will encourage smoking more and more,” especially among children, because “they can easily hide it as there is no fume and no smoke. [/FONT]
[FONT="]“Even if the father is sitting nearby, they can smoke and hide it in their pocket. It is very dangerous as it could encourage users to smoke more and more,” she emphasised.[/FONT][/I]
[I][FONT="]She also warned that “it will cause high addiction because there are no filters” and could also encourage “the habit of drug addiction.”[/FONT]

Sorry, just had to share. Google News isn't always your friend...

How obvious it is that the writer of this piece of tripe doesn't know anything about the e-cigarette. She states that there's no proof that the e-cig will allow people to stop smoking then she adds her own unproven statement. The the e-cig will encourage more smoking. There's no study that supports or refutes either claim, but just look on this forum and you can find hundreds of anecdotal instances of smoking cessation. I haven't yet seen someone w/ a banner stating a negative number of analogs avoided.

The kid is going to hide the vapor from his father? Only if the father has joined the author in smoking some "funky weed".

vaping will cause hig addiction because there are no filters? What are the filters supposed to be filtering out? We do not think that there is any tar in the vapor to be filtered. Again few studies have been done to support this, but those small ones that are available (even the FDA's) did not report tar as a component of the vapor.

Sure, e-cigs "could" encourage the habit of drug addiction. Sorry too late for that, analogs already did it first. (Too bad there's not a barfing smiley. This would be a good place for it.)

 

[Territoo]

Remember that this is a country where one cannot hold one's spouse's hand in public.

Sounds like the United States to me. It's evolving to it.

Not that part. Holding hands w/ your spouse is tame compared to what you see on primetime TV.

 

[BardicDruid]

It's called Black Lotus, they use it in the mix for their hookah's. Tangled with it once in the middle east, we ain't got nothin' to compare. It took two days to return to normal, never went there again.

I can understand where she gets her facts from, been there once, ain't goin' back either.