I've never been one to trust anything the media says, but what I see about the ecigs makes my distrust that much worse. If they're willing to lie about something that is helping so many people, what else are they willing to lie about?
Exactly how I feel. Prior to eCigs, I thought media bias was pretty bad. After using eCigs and keeping up with politics / media about it, I think I have lost even more trust/faith in the system.
There's the malicious sort that have an angle/reason to lie, and as utterly horrible as that is, it was what I came up against often prior to eCigs. As an average citizen, you are either up to speed with that, or you aren't, and think all journalists are professionals who would never ever stretch the truth for some political / monetary gain.
Then there's the less malicious intent, but arguably far more dangerous practice of re-reporting and positioning news that is strictly sensational as you know it'll bring in readers, and boost your numbers. IMO, that's what this thread is getting across, and it is partially why I don't care to wait another 10 to 30 years for the long term science to come in and rescue vaping from the only outstanding issue we are, in reality, up against. If 10 years from now, the other side is able to manipulate the media to similar degree they are today, then it really (really really) wouldn't matter if eCigs actually cured cancer, AIDS and brought about world peace. You'd think it would. If you were in general discussion with someone, and eCigs did all these things, you'd like to believe that everyone you know would say, "well, duh, of course it is a positive thing." But all it would take is opposition resorting to typical deceptive tactics and suddenly all that is positive is thrown out because poisonings from eCigs doubled in the last week. Wouldn't matter to vast majority of average folks if that doubled number is about 100 times less than product they enjoy. All that would matter is latest headline that says, "it doubled!" Who cares if eCigs bring about world peace, cures cancer and AIDS? Have you heard they doubled in reported poison calls? Have you? That's a travesty! Ban em!!!
So, we're asked to wait another 10 to 30 years for science to come and rescue us? Science around today is clearly on side of eCigs and yet we are facing bans all over the place PRECISELY on the items that the science has already dealt with (i.e. secondhand vapor). Sorry, but I think the 10 to 30 year thing is a ruse and the kind that is not so much of the malicious intent, but the kind that does say to those of malicious intent, we just delivered you 10 years of open season for you to do your dirty work. Have at it.
Another thing, which is very likely deserving of its own thread, but as I'm not sure where to put it, I'll put it in this post, but deals with if they are lying about eCigs, then what else have they lied about? I'd say secondhand smoking. Which is the epitome of ALL eCig politics. I now have very serious doubts about most, but not all, secondhand smoke (so called) facts. And that only gets worse when I think about how much they are looking to drive home the lies about eCigs in an attempt to decimate the industry. The more they prattle on about eCig 'dangers' the less credibility there is around dangers of secondhand smoke. I'm fairly certain vast majority of vapers would disagree with my spin on this, much less all the non-vapers among us, but when you go and do some good old fashion scrutinizing of the secondhand smoke data, a lot of the same messed up research and reporting is found on that topic. People today are convinced that secondhand smoke kills, despite the idea that at one point it was literally everywhere. Either humanity received some huge and rather magnificent miracle to survive that era, or possibly, just maybe, the hype around secondhand smoke is grossly inflated.
In another thread I just visited, it is vapers who are to blame for indoor vaping bans. This coming from fellow vapers. Carrying that logic over to this tangential topic, then it will be argued that it is vapers who are to be blamed for bans on eLiquid.
Just think, the more we can put the blame on those we are outright attacking, the easier our work will be in the short and long term.
IMO, that is how our opposition rolls, and sadly the general public seems to care, not even a little bit, about such a tactic.
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