Sweanor interviewed for 8 minutes on CBCNEWS criticizing Ontario's proposed e-cig flavoring ban and vaping ban

[Bill Godshall]

The Ontario government proposes to protect cigarette markets and Big tobacco profits by banning flavored e-cigs, and banning vaping (under the deceitful guise of protecting kids), public health activist Dave Sweanor interviewed by CBCNEWS for 8 minutes criticizing the proposal and promoting e-cigs.
The Exchange with Amanda Lang - The Exchange with Amanda Lang - CBC Player

 

[Dusty_D]

Excellent interview.. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Kent C]

The Ontario government proposes to protect cigarette markets and Big Tobacco profits by banning flavored e-cigs, and banning vaping (under the deceitful guise of protecting kids), public health activist Dave Sweanor interviewed by CBCNEWS for 8 minutes criticizing the proposal and promoting e-cigs.
The Exchange with Amanda Lang - The Exchange with Amanda Lang - CBC Player

Good piece - better than his summit presentation, imo. Surely he'll be criticized as advocating a 'wild west' scenario - perhaps not Texas specifically

 

[Rickb119]

Great interview. Any way to forward this to every member of congress?

 

[edyle]

While watching the interview, I kept hoping he'd avoid the 'e-cigarette' label and point out that it's really a micro-fogmachine.


I'm reminded of a thing I read about horses and cars; somewhere, in the early days cars, the car was classified as a 'carraige'; the carraiges at the time were pulled by horses, and there was a law that said you had to keep a shovel on your carraige so you could scoop up your horses droppings.
So it ended up that the cars in that town used to have a shovel because the automobile was being considered as a 'carraige'!!

Similar situation now: a fog machine is being used to perform an activity resembling cigarettes, so it is being treated as a type of cigarette, which ends up leading it into missapplying regulations intended for cigarettes.

 

[skoony]

thanks Bill,
i was really impressed how she asked the tuff questions without
all the knee jerk cliche's and,letting the doctor answer with out interrupting
screaming the children,what about the children.
regards
mike

 

[rico942]

I'm reminded of a thing I read about horses and cars; somewhere, in the early days cars, the car was classified as a 'carraige'; the carraiges at the time were pulled by horses, and there was a law that said you had to keep a shovel on your carraige so you could scoop up your horses droppings.
So it ended up that the cars in that town used to have a shovel because the automobile was being considered as a 'carraige'!!

My Dad was a Teamster for a time in the 1920s. He had an expression "carrying a shovel" that he used when someone mistakenly transferred a set of rules from one situation to another where those rules really didn't apply any longer ...

It was based on this practice. Some older Teamsters who had once driven horse-drawn carriages and then were switched to gasoline or diesel trucks would stubbornly continue to bring a shovel to work with them every day, even though their new vehicles did not make fertilizer deposits on the road ...

Apparently, ANTZ do this with smoking and vaping, they are still "carrying the shovel" ...

 

[DC2]

These are the kinds of interviews and commentary we never saw in large-scale publicly consumed media even a few years ago.
In that respect, I think gains are being made, although far too slowly.

But in America, we almost never to this day see things like this.
I'll leave it to the reader to try and understand why that is.

 

[kosst amojan]

I once had to work a few days with a backhoe digging a trench around a liquid natural gas plant because EPA regulations demand it around all petrochemical plants. Of course if LNG leaks it turns back into a gas...