The Big Vape Survey 2015

[steffijade]

I first heard about this survey from ECITA which was enough to make me suspicious. When I discovered BAT are funding it, the alarm bells started ringing. However, after further looking into it and this blog by the folks at NNA:
Vaping surveys and the importance of science.. - New Nicotine Alliance UK

I believe it is something all vapers, experienced ones in particular should get involved in. If we don't, Regulators will use the answers from the cigalike users it seems to be aimed at, to help shape legislation. So, we can either bury our heads in the sand in the hope that it does not effect us, or we can have our say and help steer it in the right direction!

BAT will just take the data that supports their own agenda and conveniently misplace any data that doesn't.

It's called cherry picking and governments/corporations/organisations with vested interests have being doing it for years to manipulate results/figures and use them to sway arguments in future policy decisions.

The regulators couldn't give a flying feck what 'we' think.. we're just a problem issue to be dealt with.

Any data that comes to the table with the sticky fingerprints of Big Tobacco on it will very likely be viewed as shady by regulators and discounted anyway... and given the shabby track record of Big Tobacco and their obvious lack of morality/ethics, I wouldn't really blame regulators for dismissing it.

Still say don't touch the thing with a barge pole.

 

[chun]

Just completed the survey. There is a prize draw that you can enter as well at the end. Worth doing because you can give your feedback about vaping whether good or bad.

 

[flippin eck]

I've just completed this survey too, even having read the barge pole comments.

I felt it gave me every opportunity to say how glad I am to be vaping instead of smoking, and also the opportunity to give an intelligent rant about the TPD heading our way.

If they are going to "lose" my data, they'll have to lose every single bit of what I wrote