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The researchers said that more women, younger adults and people with less education use e-cigarettes.

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Really? I am so offended by this comment. Anyone else? I am female , not young and educated. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Read more: [/FONT]http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ecigarette-claims-20140324,0,5881106.story#ixzz2ysqcWLRa

You feel offended by "The researchers said"?
You mean they stated opinions and not a research result?
 

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This is pretty typical for the group that is typically against ecigs.
Inflate your follower's egos by claiming they're smart and those they are against are stupid. Of course they'll believe it because the opposite is generally the case.
I've lost count of the idiot friends on Facebook who post something claiming whatever group they're following means they're smart.
 

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The researchers said that more women, younger adults and people with less education use e-cigarettes.

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Really? I am so offended by this comment. Anyone else? I am female , not young and educated. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Read more: [/FONT]http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ecigarette-claims-20140324,0,5881106.story#ixzz2ysqcWLRa

Don't be offended. tobacco use has always correlated with lower education in the general population. The problem is that our would-be overlords in the tobacco control industry misinterpret that phenomenon as proof that smokers (in this case, vapers) are too stupid to understand how to live their own lives -- whereas in reality, lower education usually means lower income, and lower income generally means more stress and fewer pleasurable outlets for that stress.

Thus, smoking. In other words, we all enjoy tobacco use (or something approximating it) to some extent or other. Using tobacco isn't a disease or an unfortunate side effect of stupidity; it's recreation.

To me, the only thing that's remarkable about the conclusion in the above-linked piece is that women would adopt e-cigs in appreciably greater numbers than men -- and that's only remarkable (to the extent that anything in the LA Times can ever be described as remarkable) because I swear I just read a survey that concluded exactly the opposite. But meh, who really cares, ultimately? When I think of all the money that's been flushed down the proverbial toilet on useless crap like this, I can only shake my educated, middling-aged, male head and have a vape. ;)
 

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"e-cigarettes are “aggressively promoted as smoking cessation aids.”

Where does that happen. I haven't seen any marketing as a "quit smoking aid".

They are still quoting the SF study. Obviously Mary MacVean did not take the time to read that one page article. The qualifications for a journalist today are about the same as the qualifications of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Maybe someday there will be honest studies by an independent unbiased organization, however, when they prove what we already know don't look for them to be quoted.

As for the OP topic, I got over that when I found out from the media that smoking cigarettes made me a low life, uneducated, dumb, Southern hick.
 

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I just saw the movie "Joe" in which everyone was "low class" and smoked. They're just trying to depict ecig use the same way. Its just more of their demonizing/shaming propaganda. They actually believe that it was their shaming of smokers that made them quit smoking and are trying to use the same tactics with ecigs to stamp out vaping. Their elitist, authoritarian, egos are limitless.

Edit: I once thought a blingy ecig was out of the question in my usual jeans but am rethinking that. I saw one of the wealthy "Housewives" vaping one... think I'm gonna go for it.
 
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The researchers said that more women, younger adults and people with less education use e-cigarettes.

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Really? I am so offended by this comment. Anyone else? I am female , not young and educated. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Read more: [/FONT]http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ecigarette-claims-20140324,0,5881106.story#ixzz2ysqcWLRa

While even though their statistics may show this, and you can add 'low income' to that as well, then it also follows that their attacks on vapers are attacks on the poor, women, teens, and the unintelligent. How 'caring' they are....:facepalm:

Sherlock Holmes would have been offended too. :D
 

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The researchers said that more women, younger adults and people with less education use e-cigarettes.

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Really? I am so offended by this comment. Anyone else? I am female , not young and educated. [/FONT]

same here. Female, not young, and educated.
So obviously, they are trying to attach a stigma to e-cig users. .. Only un-educated rabble, stupid teenagers and those silly b ... uhm... females use that stuff, eh? - I am not amused. :mad:
 

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I'm offended by this photo they used:

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1.) Could they have picked a more anemic, "Honest! She's not a junky!", sales lady - bad lighting, creepy spindly hands and all that? Hey Rodney! Find me an anemic vampire - we need to fake up one of those e-cig photos again!"

2.) Nooo - that random vapor - sorta coming out of his nose but not really - couldn't have been photoshopped in. :rolleyes:

3.) Why does it look like dude in photo is sucking on a binky rather than... anything else. Really How much of that PV does he have stuffed down his throat already? It looks like an upside down carto tank or something. Wonder what he was really holding in that little pinchy grip before "that" was inserted.
 

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While even though their statistics may show this, and you can add 'low income' to that as well, then it also follows that their attacks on vapers are attacks on the poor, women, teens, and the unintelligent. How 'caring' they are....:facepalm:

Sherlock Holmes would have been offended too. :D

Right. The term is "low income" when they're using the plight of the poor as an excuse to shame anyone who's moderately well off. The term is "low education" when they're trying to justify taxing (or just annoying) the living snot out of the poor.

Life is good when you can have your cake, and eat it too, and then go all Marie Antoinette on everyone else.
 

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Right. The term is "low income" when they're using the plight of the poor as an excuse to shame anyone who's moderately well off. The term is "low education" when they're trying to justify taxing (or just annoying) the living snot out of the poor.

Life is good when you can have your cake, and eat it too, and then go all Marie Antoinette on everyone else.

But, but... they equate "low education" with "low income" too! Wait, I get it! If I'm "low education" then I wouldn't know that.


And sadly, they RELY on that. :facepalm:
 
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