The saddest thing is that the study's author, Gregory Connolly, a rabid prohibitionist concerning all things
tobacco, is laughing his head off right now. We can rant all we want here, but he delivered his message to America, loud and clear, on just about every news outlet. I can't tell you how many "friends" emailed me about my dangerous practice that is endangering America's children.
We have no voice as loud. We have no researcher who can command the type of attention this inaccurate and ill-reasoned message got.
Before this is over, these anti types will take down snus, dissolvables, and all electronic smoking products -- liquids and hardware. Then they will tax cigarettes, chew
tobacco, cigars and pipe
tobacco to a point that choices between food and mortgages and tobacco must be made.
Who gets hurt? Only the people. Only people like us, trying to do a better thing in the face of corporate greed, intellectual bankruptcy at instititutions of higher learning, and a government with its hands shoved ever deeper into our pockets and its eyes peering ever deeper into our private lives.