Dr. Gottlieb’s First Remarks to FDA Staff ~ Save A Billion Lives ~ A Billion Lives ~ Bladder Cancer ~ Guidance From CASAA ~ Vaping and Confused ~ Tax on e-cigs should be zero ~ The Trump Administration ~ Corruption ~ Biochemically verified smoking cessation and vaping beliefs among vape store customers ~ Nicotine Enhances Bee’s Activity ~ Speaking of lowering nicotine ~ Titration Theories ~ RUBBISH ~ The TPD
Dr. Gottlieb’s First Remarks to FDA Staff
“We need to redouble efforts to help more smokers become tobacco-free. And, we need to have the science base to explore the potential to move current smokers – unable or unwilling to quit – to less harmful products, if they can’t quit altogether. At all times, we must protect kids from the dangers of tobacco use.”
The following Truth Initiative survey consisted of an online sample of 701 current smokers and 300 former smokers.
“Nearly all (95%) of these respondents think e-cigarettes are effective at helping smokers quit and 94% would recommend them for this purpose, suggesting that e-cigarettes are a satisfying quit product for those who have successfully used them for that purpose.”
“…health groups, including the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, and the American Cancer Society, are actively lobbying against e-cigarettes and misrepresenting the science about both the safety of e-cigarettes and how they can help cigarette smokers significantly reduce their risk.”
“We do not have sufficient data to determine what effects e-cigarettes have on public health at the population level. We also noted that some individuals report using e-cigarettes to successfully quit smoking….”
Paul has escaped from his hole, trying to make sense of the TPD.
From tomorrow, anyone who wants a TFV8, won’t be able to get one. Not legally at any rate. Here’s the thing about that, many of the small 2ml tanks just aren’t enjoyable to use. There are many of those small tanks that simply will not serve.
Included was a live-stream from the conference with Linda Bauld, Prof Peter Hajek, Prof John Britton, Clive Bates, Director Aaron Biebert and more.
In New Zealand
Do NOT dismiss the power of this film.
This film is already a history-making documentary.
In New Zealand earlier this year, the film helped CHANGE the DIRECTION on legislation of e-cigarettes with combined efforts from Dr. Marewa Glover and the team at Aotearoa Vape Community Advocacy (AVCA).
The Village of Hartland, Wisconsin is challenging the deeming rules set by the Food & Drug Administration for not coordinating with the Hartland government.
Both the film and Director Aaron Biebert’s testimony are on public record from the hearings and are headed to Washington.
Much More Than A Movement
This brand new consumer group formed on Facebook – has grown quickly to over 3,000 folks in under a week and show no signs of slowing down.
1-800-THR-VAPE ~ Study titled “Benzene formation in e-cigarettes” found that air has more benzene than e-cigs ~ Nicotine Is Not Addictive ~ Fierce debates dominate D.C.’s first E-Cigarette Summit ~ E-Cigarette Summit USA. Where was vape? ~ Next Steps After FDA Coordination Hearing On Deeming Regs ~ Vape Friendly FDA Commissioner Confirmed~ How FDA Commissioner Gottlieb Can Save E-Cigarettes and Lives ~ SURVEY~ Tolerance, Dependence, Addiction: What’s the Difference? ~ Mooch’s Blog ~
1-800-THR-VAPE
In the USA, organizations – government run/sponsored “quitlines” have long been a standard for smokers to call for “free” advice.
Imagine if there were questions about e-cigarettes that those other “quitlines” WON’T answer…
According to the FDA regulations, vape shops cannot relay “information” to customers.
What if there was an 800 number for consumers to get answers…
I’ll quote David Goerlitz:
“I strongly urge smokers who wish to cut down or quit Smoking when/if they are inclined, to educate themselves with facts that are readily available, science that has been scrutinized up one side and down the other, medical PROFESSIONALS that have verified that Vaping is 95% safer than smoking, and more importantly LISTEN and RESPECT the 9 MILLION former smokers who have successfully QUIT SMOKING”
Speaking of louder, the Hartland Coordination hearings held earlier this month are discussed with the Electronic Vaping Coalition of America (EVCA‘s) Linda Hansen and Fred Kelley Grant.
“More than a month after his confirmation hearing, Congress finally voted to confirm Trump’s nominee for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commission.”
*How electronic cigarettes have helped us as an alternative to using combustible tobacco products. This survey may take up to 20 minutes to complete. Please help us to help others. “Knowledge is Power. Sharing it empowers others.”
The world has been manipulated into believing that nicotine itself is addictive. It isn’t.
Decades of the assertion of nicotine addiction is wrong. Millions of smokers have been lied to. Millions have believed the addictive property in cigarettes is nicotine alone by default or design.
MILLIONS have tried to “quit or die” with “approved” methods.
The assertion of nicotine “addiction” by “public health” is profitable and absurd.
Where IS the PROOF?
Is there proof of the global claim of addiction to nicotine without tobacco?
I decided to challenge that.
Nicotine Addiction: An Open 30-Day Public Health Challenge.
No one was able to produce any overwhelming evidence of addiction to nicotine without tobacco or MAOI’s.
Hearing it for nearly three decades, the generation under 50 assumes this claim is true.
Because you’ve been led to believe force-fed information.
Propaganda.
“Tobacco and nicotine are addictive like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.”
Wikipedia has a link describing nicotine (in and with tobacco) as
“Nicotine is highly addictive.”
It also states “Nicotine constitutes approximately 0.6–3.0% of the dry weight of tobacco”
“This stimulant effect is a contributing factor to the addictive properties of tobacco smoking.”
Tobacco with all the other chemicals may be “addictive”, but nicotine itself is not.
Do you really believe “.06% up to 3%” is the addictive part with all the other chemicals?
This is a list of what the FDA determines to be the “other chemicals and additives” (or what they consider the “Established List”) in cigarettes.
One, with half a brain might think all those additives in tobacco could be the reason for “addiction”. Well – evidently not. It must be the nicotine.
A Nicotine Lie Is Born
In 1988, the Surgeon General released this report setting the phrase “nicotine addiction” into anti-smoking and eventually what has become “tobacco control” folklore.
By design, the anti-smoking establishment took a deep manipulative smoke-free breath in unison – and went, yeah, nicotine addiction. We can use that.
Contrived? Absolutely.
Created false nicotine theory
to manipulate smokers
into thinking they are addicted
The two other anti-tobacco experts, Neal Benowitz and Jack Henningfield were the jointly responsible scientific editors of the 639-page official Surgeon General’s Report: “Nicotine Addiction” in 1988.
According to the court documents the two experts both had solid economic cooperation on smoking cessation products with many pharmaceutical companies since the 1980s – Neal Benowitz as a professional consultant for several pharmaceutical companies that produce smoking cessation products, while Jack Henningfield earned most of his income from his own business companies which have had long-standing partnerships with Glaxo and Pfizer.
“Lying about “nicotine” addiction becomes addictive like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.”
They Couldn’t Wait To Help
Smoking bans, laws and (bookmark alert) —> anti-smoking groups went berzerk. Patches, gums, etc. were set and soon “in place” to “help” smokers.
Public health, anti-smoking groups now tobacco control “groups” have (used) gotten away with stating nicotine addiction for DECADES, never separating tobacco or all the additives in the manufacturing process (MAOI’s) with a simple proof by assertion, the whole world “believes” very quickly, that nicotine itself, is addictive. Government goes along for the ride.
Please, Keep Smoking
When you wanted to stop smoking, you had it set in your mind via the brainwashing you’ve had most or all your life. Patch. Gum. Approved methods. You take the word of experts who should know better, run to the local drug store or supermart and load up on essentially useless products.
The world of anti-tobacco, pharmaceuticals and government, by design deception, have manipulated public opinion.
Remember above?
“Tobacco and nicotine are addictive like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.”
Proof by assertion:
Proof by assertion, sometimes informally referred to as proof by repeated assertion, is an informal fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction. Sometimes, this may be repeated until challenges dry up, at which point it is asserted as fact due to its not being contradicted (argumentum ad nauseam).
There are stats to show how well poorly the patch and gum are helping folks stop smoking at a whopping 93% failure rate here.
Profits from nicotine replacement “therapies” are addictive like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.
An Addiction To Revenue
Nicotine gum was around in 1967, but commercially available in 1978.
Shortly thereafter, in 1994, the tobacco companies were put on the spot, in my opinion, to look like villains – to make the public record look as if they were lying, and make the pharmaceutical companies much more profitable.
Wouldn’t most or all of us, if “addicted” to nicotine alone, have
Smoked more and more cigarettes every day to increase our “nicotine” levels?
Continually use higher MG patches going up instead of “stepping down”?
Chewed copious amounts of nicotine gum until our cheeks exploded?
Become “junkies”, gone on crime sprees and lived on the streets?
Seen a huge worldwide black market for nicotine gum & patches?
Willful Manipulation And Deception
“Experts” willfully, with malice, have the answer – and give you what you’re supposedly addicted to, to help you become free from your addiction.
That, my friend, is business 101 charlatanism defined.
I’ll let you ponder that as I keep typing.
The phrase “nicotine addiction” became profitable by the 1990’s.
“Keeping people smoking by saying replacement “therapies” work is “as addictive as alcohol, cocaine, and heroin”.
An Addiction To Lying
ALWAYS referring to tobacco, never without. An alleged expert in her field.
Nicotine is one of the most addictive chemicals known to mankind #ECToH2017 It is just as addictive as cocaine and heroin, if not more so pic.twitter.com/y5kZaRw0WE
The more you fail at an addiction you don’t have, the more job security there will be.
If “Nicotine IS Addictive”
Here’s an example of an alleged “expert” using misdirection.
Then – there’s a contradiction. It either IS addictive or it is not.
There’s no “depends”. It makes “experts” look assertive, but uneducated.
To presume, assume, portray and assert the “fact” that nicotine itself is THE addictive ingredient in tobacco is unsubstantiated, contrived and incorrect.
I’ve asked for proof of addiction to nicotine without tobacco. Repeatedly. Replies were either completely ignored, or amusing to some extent.
Without proof that nicotine itself “IS” addictive, it’s not as easy an answer to – lie about.
I looked. Asked politely, and sometimes not so politely. Then I looked some more.
Facebook. Emails.
Becoming a pain in the ass, I’ve asked “important people”. I’ve asked wannabe’s with PhD’s, top experts on addiction.
“Tobacco control – experts – “, T.V. doctors, the Centers for Disease Control, The Food & Drug Administration, the Surgeon General and even asked Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson on Twitter. I wanted anyone to show proof that – without tobacco – nicotine “is” addictive.
I’ve asked the Lung, Heart, Cancer and other organizations like the American Medical Association. You name it, I’ve asked.
Not one could produce evidence to show addiction without using tobacco or MAOI’s.
They all say use those approved “cessation” methods.
Imagine my surprise.
Multi-Billion Dollar Lies
I asked Mr. Zercher of 22nd Century. According to his Twitter account, he is
“VP BD @_xxiicentury (cig w less nicotine than a tomato? yep), fmr head of #americanspiritcigarettes.”
He’s done research (funded by the FDA). Surely, with the progress and innovation of creating a cigarette with “less nicotine than a tomato”, he’s done some research. He of all people – he’s got answers.
See, he’s got a cigarette with less nicotine in it. That tells me he’s got evidence that nicotine is the addictive property in tobacco, not the tobacco.
I covered his portion of the multi-billion dollar, global industry (that I’m still waiting to prove me wrong) here:
I’m also still waiting for you to find it, Mr. Zercher.
Convincing smokers that nicotine is addictive is a multi-billion dollar global lie.
What I could find
Before the challenge was proposed publicly, I did some homework. Hell, I’ve been doing homework for 3+ years. To really scour the world for addiction to nicotine without tobacco was a task.
Once I published the challenge, I expected to be bombarded with studies, data, science and proof that nicotine, without tobacco – IS addictive. Instead, I was expectedly told to “change the criteria”. Huh.
Why? If it IS addictive – after all these years – where is the data?
With no real assistance or help from the “experts”, I found the following on my own:
This one, with my favorite word “can” and of 18 people, does not show addiction.
This cannot possibly apply to nicotine as a discrete substance even when delivered in a cigarette. The problem with a regular intake of nicotine in a cigarette is all the collateral damage caused by smoking.
Finally, ignored since 2011, Hanan Frenk and Reuven Dar submitted this to the Harm Reduction Journal:
We show that the nicotine addiction model presented in this chapter, which closely resembles its 22 years old predecessor, could only be sustained by systematically ignoring all contradictory evidence.
To question this topic has brought understandably varied levels of criticism among peers, and dismissal due to the assertion of addiction by some professionals without separating tobacco from the equation. I was asked repeatedly to change the criteria.
In giving advice on smoking cessation, the perception of being addicted to “nicotine” itself, then suggesting a “step-down method” with nicotine products is a questionable at best.
Blaming smokers for “not trying hard enough” and telling them it takes many tries is no longer acceptable.
If it were the nicotine itself, not the tobacco, chemicals and maoi’s introduced to enhance tobacco, there would be merit for these products for cessation.
“NRT” and cessation devices do not work. Public health and the manufacturers have known this all along and gone along with the illusion. Nicotine Replacement “therapies” are like any other homeopathic or snake oil remedy.
If you are an expert, please – feel free to comment on this blog and prove addiction to nicotine without tobacco.
“although any nicotine-containing product is potentially addictive, decades of research and use have shown that NRT products sold OTC do not appear to have significant potential for abuse or dependence.
“The research, published today (Tuesday 16 May) in the journal Scientific Reports, adds to the Chittka lab’s understanding of how bees – insects with a brain no bigger than a pinhead – can perform complex tasks.”
To reduce the risks of smoking, physicians need proper information to rely on and relay to their patients. E-cigarettes are another way to reduce or eliminate smoking.
The worldwide claim of professionals “not knowing” the risks of e-cigarettes has come to a close.
There’s no reason for physicians to dismiss e-cigarettes or less harm to patients.
Of 560 physicians surveyed, over 70% “indicated that e-cigs can help patients reduce or eliminate smoking” and “almost half believe they can reduce risk”:
Dr. Cranfield explains the health effects of users over three years.
Users showed a 96% reduction in adverse health problems by users of three or more years. Conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure and asthma improved by 61.8%
Conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure and asthma improved by 61.8% of those diagnosed with those health issues while they smoked.
Coordination with the FDA: Hartland, Wisconsin ~ Please Keep Smoking Award ~ Smoke Some More ~ Views & News On Cole Bishop ~ There’s A List ~ Coverup, Judicial Watch ~ Senator Johnson ~ Truth Initiative ~ Health aspects of e-cigarettes ~ Fergus Mason ~ Nicotine
Hartland, Wisconsin
Imagine for a moment that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has overstepped their authority in “deeming” anything to do with e-cigarettes.
State Rep. Mary Jo Daley, (D-PA) is the recipient of this week’s “Please Keep Smoking” award. Seems the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network likes to give out “awards” to keep people smoking.
The FDA likes smoking so much, they have an initiative to figure out how to keep people smoking under an “initiative” to pretend to get them to smoke “less”.
I thought the FDA’s purpose was to regulate, not initiate.
We regulate #tobacco products based on a public health standard intended to reduce the toll of tobacco use http://t.co/3WWaRmzmea
The FDA is batting 1,000 with non-answers – as if they were above the law.
With Former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg under R.I.C.O. charges, Senator Ron Johnson being ignored last year asking the FDA repeatedly to produce documentation, and Hartland asking questions above, Judicial Watch has asked, through the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) for – well – information.
People are usually interested in how long nicotine remains in the system because their employer wants to test for nicotine, either as a condition of employment, or more commonly to determine the cost of health insurance.
Imagine for a moment that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has oversteppedtheir authority in “deeming” anything to do with e-cigarettes.
Imagine there’s a little-known process used to challenge regulations imposed when the federal authority, by law, didnotcoordinate with state and local municipalities.
Now, imagine there’s a small town in the United States willing to take it upon themselves to challenge the authority having jurisdiction over these regulations.
Imagine.
The Village of Hartland, Wisconsin has done just that. They have hosted three days of public hearings and testimony of what is called “coordination” with Hearing Officer Fred Kelly Grant, Esq. at the helm.
The Electronic Vaping Coalition of America (EVCA) has explained what “coordination” is here.
Testimony in Hartland was presented by Cory Winston, Azim Chowdhury, Shaun Casey, Antonio Lauria, Lou Ritter, Jeff Stier, Aaron Biebert, Johnson Creek Vapor Company, Bill Godshall and more.
Thursday, April 27th, 2017
Friday, April 28th, 2017
Saturday, April 29th, 2017
MONDAY, May 1st, 2017:
The decision is in:
THIS is how you can fight.
Via EVCA, the funding to FIGHT the FDA with this board if it goes to court:
Vaping In The News – April 23rd – April 29th, 2017
Regulations ~ Small Town America ~ Bye-Bye Murthy ~ Tobacco Profits ~ Dr. Siegel ~ Federal Action Needed ~ Rethinking Nicotine ~ Think of the children™ ~ THE Fergus Mason ~ THRA Worldwide Survey ~ Nicotine Challenge
Regulations
Within the political ring, there are twodistinct and sadly needed actions in the United States right now to fight the regulations of e-cigarettes.
First, the ever-imperative Cole-Bishop bill, (H.R. 1136) explained via CASAA here
Meanwhile
Duncan Hunter (R,CA) has introduced one of his own, taking tobacco OUT of the description completely.
Speaking of legislation, Federal law requires “federal regulatory agencies must coordinate their policies, plans, actions, and regulations with local governments.”
That is found here from the Electronic Vaping Coalition of America (EVCA)
Vaping In The News – April 16th – April 22nd, 2017
Hunter Vaping Legislation Ready To Replace Deeming Regs ~ Worldwide Survey ~ A Billion Lives ~ Clive Bates ~ Discrimination ~ Regulations ~ Mayor of TobaccoVille ~ New Surgeon General ~ Battery Safety (NFPA) ~ 625 MILLION Dollars ~ Negative Effects ~ Less Harmful ~ No Proof of Nicotine Addiction
Via Brent Stafford & Regulator Watch
Brent Stafford and Regulator Watch have been pressing many issues in the e-cigarette world and keeping us informed.
Related:
The FDA Deeming Clarification Act of 2017 (HR 1136) was introduced on Thursday, February 16th. Republican Tom Cole of Oklahoma (4th district) and Democrat Sanford Bishop of Georgia (2nd district) have built on previous legislative attempts from 2015 and 2016. HR 1136 is an updated version of HR 2058 and the Cole/Bishop amendment.
Since e-cigarettes and nicotine were deemed a tobacco product on National Tobacco Day, you can be fired, or “not hired” due to tobacco use.
In some cases, adult tobacco users have even been fired from their jobs just because they use tobacco products during their free time, and that’s not right….
…in some workplaces, if you smoke or dip, you won’t get hired.
Nicotine addiction MUST to be at the top five lies in public health, tobacco control and is, in my consumer-driven view, the largest lie in smoking “cessation”.
I’ve tweeted and posted this challenge to facebook to many useful idiots. Many of you have shared it, and thank you. (I’m still on a mission.)
NOT one public health expert has proven addiction to nicotine in my challenge.
Originally set at 30 days, I have not let it expire. I think they need more time.
*Think of the implications of the claim, and the multi-million dollar industry who is unable to prove me wrong.
Dr. Farsalinos ~ Cole-Bishop, Dr. Cranfield ~ 60 Minutes Australia ~ Honesty ~ Imagine The Implications ~ Carl V Phillips ~ THE Fergus Mason ~ A Billion Lives ~ Willing To Compromise
Dr. Farsalinos
“WHO is making a big mistake,” says Farsalino, referring to the organization’s quit-or-die approach.
It’s a doctor’s duty to recommend the best ways to live a healthy lifestyle for his or her patients, but it is also our duty to recognize the realities of certain situations. In the case of patients who smoke, it’s important to note that vapor products can be a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes, as well as a tool for smokers to cut down their tobacco intake or even quit altogether.
I’m not used to seeing brutal honesty or integrity, so enjoy it.
“Every time the nanny-state intrudes into the middle of our families, then our individual liberty and personal responsibility is diminished.
The gradual accumulation of small, seemingly insignificant legislated tyrannies will destroy the very foundation upon which our free republic was built.”
“I got a few free nicotine patches. I was interested in seeing if I could feel the nicotine,’ he told Watchdog.org. “But the next morning in the shower, I felt something strange on my skin and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I forgot!’ It was imperceptible.”
So apparently there is a UK organization known as the Royal Society of Public Health which presumably had some importance back when the East India Company was not just a retail brand.
I’ll let THEFergus Mason speak for himself. For all of us. Something like that.
Just to set the record straight I thought I’d set out why the public health profession is so unpopular with vapers. Settle down in your comfiest chair; this could take a while.
I’m not sure why this took so long to surface from 2015, but the truth is finally spoken from a researcher about e-cigarettes in the video, and from Shannon.
This is where arrogance and the fiscal health – of taxing e-cigarettes – collide.
Dr. Gardiner wants to tax your ecigs to pay for his research.
