The British Medical Association and its attacks on e-cigarettes

[KulrMeStoopid]

http://www.clivebates.com/?p=1602


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The British Medical Association has written to a number of football clubs urging them to end sponsorship deals with e-cigarette companies and to ban the use of e-cigarettes at their football grounds. I think the lines taken by the BMA are scientifically illiterate and likely to cause harm by making it harder for people to quit smoking by switching to vaping. They stress minute obscure risks and ignore huge potential benefits and argue with an authority not backed by the quality of their science. So here is an anonymised example of the letters they have been sending, along with how I would reply if I was an organisation on the receiving end of this.

This is a must read and I encourage all of you to forward this onto your local clubs who are partnered with ecig companies!

 

[Mawsley]

Football clubs don't give a shit what the BMA say, they only care about the moneh.

 

[Chegs]

I object to the BMA scaremongering,but they can send that letter to any football club they chose & I won't give a pigs burp because I despise football even more than I despise politicians.

 

[Doofry]

I hope the clubs send a letter back in size 72 font saying FUKC OFF!!!

 

[kingvape]

i wonder if the bma who are so worried about football clubs "promoting healthiness" will be sending a second letter asking clubs to sell salad instead of pies and fruit juice instead of beer and coke?

 

[Doofry]

Fruit juice? FRUIT JUICE? cannot be selling that either or dentists will have hissy fits!
Fruit juice will attack the enamel on your teethypegs and rot them to stumps.
BUT... GOOD NEWS!
A LibDem MP is on the warpath about the government proposal to reduce the legal maximum amount of sugar in our jam.
She said that she is 'very worried that this might spell the end of the british breakfast'

So i am glad that she has her priorities right and the world will be a better place if jam stays as it is

 

[joebo]

Great measured response from Clive!

 

[MrPT]

the design and use of e-cigarettes closely mimics that of tobacco cigarettes

i just wish these dimwits would open their eyes a little and check out the real vaping industry and its uses.
Personally i know about 20 people now committed to full time vaping, yes its true every one of them started with an analogue to trial the feeling of vaping and the nicotine delivery. Now every one of them is either using an eGo or bigger mods such as the vamo.
I know of not 1 person using analogue style devices fulltime, the only people that use those terrible devices are the part timers that use them to circumvent the smoking ban, if they actually looked at the industry vaping does NOT mimic tobacco cigs in style at all.

We are concerned that their use may reinforce the physical pattern of cigarette smoking

Thats kind of the point, deals with the nicotine and habitual addictions.!! and have they not seen the nicorette inhaler, been on market for 10+ years that thing

there is a lack of...research(blah blah you read it) as a safe and effective NRT

Thats because its not invented, nor used as NRT, no-one as far as i am aware has ever marketed e-cigs as NRT.