Excellent must-read for every vaper. Excerpts:
«Beginning in 2009, the crusade against this breakthrough technology electronic cigarettes and related reduced-harm vapor products, known as e-cigs has stealthily spread from coast to coast, under the malevolent guidance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).»
«Some of the entrenched antipathy towards e-cigs stems from the tobacco wars of the twentieth century, in which anything redolent of cigarettes or tobacco had to be opposed, period. For some, this sentiment was based on fundamentalism: smoking was sinful and allowing those trying to quit to use nicotine in any form was therefore verboten. However, much of the sensationalist fearmongering and outright deception with regard to e-cigs has to do with funding or corruption, in other words. Big Pharma notably Pfizer, GSK, Johnson and Johnson sell multi-millions worth of near-useless NRT products and drugs each year. Not coincidentally, these same companies subsidise the public-health nonprofits and academic centres very generously. Yet when these groups attack e-cigs and warn smokers to stick with the pharma products, they never disclose that funding. Similarly, the pervasive hyper-regulation of e-cigs at the state and local level has a lot to do with cigarette excise taxes propping up local budgets as of now, e-cigs are largely untaxed.»
The madness of the war on e-cigs | Health | Smoking | USA | spiked
«Beginning in 2009, the crusade against this breakthrough technology electronic cigarettes and related reduced-harm vapor products, known as e-cigs has stealthily spread from coast to coast, under the malevolent guidance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).»
«Some of the entrenched antipathy towards e-cigs stems from the tobacco wars of the twentieth century, in which anything redolent of cigarettes or tobacco had to be opposed, period. For some, this sentiment was based on fundamentalism: smoking was sinful and allowing those trying to quit to use nicotine in any form was therefore verboten. However, much of the sensationalist fearmongering and outright deception with regard to e-cigs has to do with funding or corruption, in other words. Big Pharma notably Pfizer, GSK, Johnson and Johnson sell multi-millions worth of near-useless NRT products and drugs each year. Not coincidentally, these same companies subsidise the public-health nonprofits and academic centres very generously. Yet when these groups attack e-cigs and warn smokers to stick with the pharma products, they never disclose that funding. Similarly, the pervasive hyper-regulation of e-cigs at the state and local level has a lot to do with cigarette excise taxes propping up local budgets as of now, e-cigs are largely untaxed.»
The madness of the war on e-cigs | Health | Smoking | USA | spiked
