American Academy of Pediatrics, writes POTUS

[Roadhoguk]

Exactly! It's just a PITA.

Im a mother of teenagers and a toddler and even my boys are smart enough to rationalise "oh yeah the kids at school who use ecigs WERE ALL SMOKERS before"

So lets keep them smoking right? Because we cant let Big Tobacco NOT pay their huge tax bills at the end of the year. the gov NEEDS that money.

Fuckers shoulda thought better 10-20-30-40-50-60 years ago and invested OUR tax money into something more viable and profitable.


Truth is, theres no money in healthy people for either big P or the big G.

To coin an American phrase (in Movies at least).

WORD!

 

[KulrMeStoopid]

Adolf Hitler said it best when permeating the use of propaganda during his war.


As I have said before, it makes me sad that modern day governments and organisations deploy the exact same Nazi tactics to infect our brains with misinformation.

 

[Colonelboom]

I still say we need to get someone to ask a politician live on primetime wether they want to control ecigs because theyre losing tax... watch the oily barstewards squirm...

The problem is they already have an answer why they are not - regardless of how truthful it may be, they can find a way to justify any decision they want to.

 

[ScottChensoda]

http://action.lung.org/site/DocServer/need-fda-regulations-all-tobacco-09192013.pdf

This is a very dangerous letter for vapers from a well respected body in the US.

I am a strong Obama supported (so don't go bashing my Prez!) and feel that as a smoker who is trying to quit and HAS used Ecigs, he might not fall for this BS...but still...this is bad news.

Obama, without doubt the worst and most dangerous president ever.

 

[KulrMeStoopid]

Obama, without doubt the worst and most dangerous president ever.

You do know most of that is bullshit right. Head used his birth name his whole life.

I've also been a supporter of him long before he ran for presidency and while he was campaigning for Illinois. Most Americans never even heard of him until he ran for presidency

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[Fleabag]

The suggestion that the industry offers sweet flavours in order to attract children has to be the most blatant example of misinformation I think I've seen - it's appalling that a group of respected professionals are capable of such dirty tactics to influence the uninformed - it's also telling that they feel the need to resort to outright lies in an effort to win their argument.

I've also never heard of candy flavoured cigarettes (sounds quite disgusting, and I'm sure not nearly as tasty to a child as an actual "candy")

 

[KulrMeStoopid]

Camel cigs in the states did a run of like... Chocolate Mint and such... which is what prompted the ban on them

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The dark mint one was my fave. They were only around in limited editions and for no more than 6 months before they disappeared.

 

[anthonyb]

I've also never heard of candy flavoured cigarettes (sounds quite disgusting, and I'm sure not nearly as tasty to a child as an actual "candy")

I think the candy flavoured cigarettes they are using as a reference aren't actually cigarettes at all. The only candy cigs I can remember, where actually sweets.
Basicly sticks of white candy with a red end, sold in a box about the some size as 10 embassy.
They could be found on all the sweet counters, back in the day. And yes we did do play smoking with them. Before eating them.

 

[ZT]

You can still get the sweet cigarettes, they don't have the red end anymore an are sold as "candy sticks"

 

[Fleabag]

I think the candy flavoured cigarettes they are using as a reference aren't actually cigarettes at all. The only candy cigs I can remember, where actually sweets.
Basicly sticks of white candy with a red end, sold in a box about the some size as 10 embassy.
They could be found on all the sweet counters, back in the day. And yes we did do play smoking with them. Before eating them.

I remember them well, and the chocolate ones wrapped in paper - and the plastic toy cigarettes with talc that made a little cloud when you puffed on them