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It's the same old story (in both senses of the word "story").
Another small local paper's reporter calls the "responsible" authorities at the American Lung Assn., the FDA, and the American Cancer Society. A quick trip to www . no-smoke . org and the editor is satisfied! ( no-smoke org/document.php?id=250 )
The legislation is all about "protecting the children" ... but all the potential is there for it to morph into a general bill that treats vaping in exactly the same way as tobacco burning.
(Remember what Vladimir Putin said about gay athletes at the Olympics: www. slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/01/17/putin_anti_gay_olympics_russian_president_tells_gays_to_leave_the_kids_alone.html. / Putin anti-gay Olympics: Russian president tells gays to leave the kids alone.)
When I was growing up, the goal was to protect children from Communism. Later on, it was gay schoolteachers. Then it was drugs. Now ... it's vaping!
As more and state legislatures come back into session (see above article for NM), these dominos are going to fall one after another. Any local reporter or anyone with a few letters after their name can go to the "appropriate authorities" and write a great anti-vaping hit job in just a few minutes. That means grant money, the respect of one's peers, or at least a day's work well done (depending on what one's job is).
If I didn't have a more important project to do right now, I could write a program that would automatically generate anti-vaping "hit job" articles. (Not that I would, but it really wouldn't be that hard to fully-automate the process, so these absurdities could be spewed out by the thousands. The hard work has already been done.)
The new meme is that vaping is allegedly more dangerous than smoking. (C.f. http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/12/anti-smoking-researchers-continue-to.html ).
Just wait until the politicians, cub reporters, and lazy or disingenous academics and physicians get hold of that one.
It's the same old story (in both senses of the word "story").
Another small local paper's reporter calls the "responsible" authorities at the American Lung Assn., the FDA, and the American Cancer Society. A quick trip to www . no-smoke . org and the editor is satisfied! ( no-smoke org/document.php?id=250 )
The legislation is all about "protecting the children" ... but all the potential is there for it to morph into a general bill that treats vaping in exactly the same way as tobacco burning.
(Remember what Vladimir Putin said about gay athletes at the Olympics: www. slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/01/17/putin_anti_gay_olympics_russian_president_tells_gays_to_leave_the_kids_alone.html. / Putin anti-gay Olympics: Russian president tells gays to leave the kids alone.)
When I was growing up, the goal was to protect children from Communism. Later on, it was gay schoolteachers. Then it was drugs. Now ... it's vaping!
As more and state legislatures come back into session (see above article for NM), these dominos are going to fall one after another. Any local reporter or anyone with a few letters after their name can go to the "appropriate authorities" and write a great anti-vaping hit job in just a few minutes. That means grant money, the respect of one's peers, or at least a day's work well done (depending on what one's job is).
If I didn't have a more important project to do right now, I could write a program that would automatically generate anti-vaping "hit job" articles. (Not that I would, but it really wouldn't be that hard to fully-automate the process, so these absurdities could be spewed out by the thousands. The hard work has already been done.)
The new meme is that vaping is allegedly more dangerous than smoking. (C.f. http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/12/anti-smoking-researchers-continue-to.html ).
Just wait until the politicians, cub reporters, and lazy or disingenous academics and physicians get hold of that one.
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