Few dare call it bribery: OK grants, e-cigs, and another brick in the wall

[KulrMeStoopid]

http://watchdog.org/119734/bribery-grants-e-cigs-brick-in-the-wall/

By Patrick B. McGuigan | Oklahoma Watchdog
OKLAHOMA CITY – Call me slow, but don’t call me dumb.
Call me patient, but don’t call me long-suffering.
Slow to burn? Yep. Clueless? Nope.
The Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) is cajoling and pressuring local communities into equating e-cigarettes and similar products — “personal vaporizers” as fans call them — with tobacco.

BUCKS AND BANS = BRIBERY? Oklahoma’s Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust is linking local healthy community grants to bans on non-tobacco electronic cigarettes.

Maybe I should have figured out what TSET was up to whenJonathan Small, policy vice president for the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, said TSET’s “recent actions demonizing and profiling e-cigarettes are yet more evidence of the need for strict oversight and a complete overhaul of TSET and its activities. TSET should be about real and lasting solutions for health care, not the selective discriminatory efforts of biased bureaucrats.”

 

[steffijade]

corruption in action. :/

 

[Ninjaassasin1983]

absolutely disgusting behaviour why can't big tobacco companies just sit back and say well we've had our day in the sun for 100 plus years now its time for the wave of the future nicotine products which are much safer it basically comes down to human greed