I know that this is a bit late but I get your frustration. I always believed that you can offer a credible opposing viewpoint by a calm rational presenting of the idea. You won't change everyone's mind but you can give them the points to ponder and a seed of an idea to water.
Vaping changed that for me. I don't understand how something I consider so life changing, extended my life and allowed me to feel so much healthier faces so much horror in eyes of the regulators and just the general population. I have vaped for four years and each year as vaping becomes a more serious quitting strategy and there are more people vaping you would think that the harm reduction message would get through. It does not and most of the time it's too hard to maintain the energy required to keep arguing and trying to justify something that seemed to make perfect sense to me. My vaping story should be a celebration. 50 a day smoker to overnight vaper. The lack of understanding of what that meant to me is mind blowing.
You see these anti vaping messages everywhere, countries are banning them or thinking of it and I just shake my head. You can see it here it's almost like vapers around the world are bowing to the inevitable and stockpiling in the face of prohibition. I trust that I am wrong but if the USA bans ecigs or regulates them to extinction, the the world will have an example to hold up.
In the dark ages, and to some extent even somewhat into the middle ages, each life had a "price" -- if you took someone's life, you had to pay their family, or if they had none, their king, a price for their life. And yeah, a noble or a churchman had a higher price than a peasant or villein -- women had the lowest price of all, and still lower than that was the price for taking a woman carnally against her will.
Time rolled on, and this idea became archaic, "barbaric," and even, so we told ourselves, extinct, because the human race fancied the idea that you can't put a price on ANY human life.
But now it seems we've come full circle, and even gone backwards, when OUR OWN GOVERNMENTS, the people we ELECTED TO SERVE US, now consider money, the billions and trillions of profit earned by corporations, to be of far more worth than even MILLIONS of human lives.
We're entered a whole new Dark Ages. Millions upon millions of VOTERS' LIVES are now worth less to THOSE THEY VOTED FOR, than the backroom bribes paid to them by those unholy corporations.
Andria
Now ECF is my "social group," and especially you guys, my fellow tootle peeps, because you don't think I'm weird to use an rda at 9w. 
Just Sayin' . . . 
