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“The largest threat to Public Health is an informed consumer.”
Can e-Cigarettes and Pharmaceutical Aids Increase Smoking Cessation? ~ Update on Deeming Rule Appeal ~ Vaping And Harm Reduction ~ ‘Real‐world’ compensatory behaviour ~ We’re not idiots ~ The Grey Miserable World of ‘Public Health’ ~ Plain Packaging & the TPD ~ Montana Proposal Punishes Lower Income Smokers ~ CASAA Tobacco 21 policy statement ~ Truth Initiative manipulates tobacco numbers ~ Are Vapes Tobacco Products? ~ How to lie, cheat, manipulate and mislead ~ Five Years ~
Can e-Cigarettes and Pharmaceutical Aids Increase Smoking Cessation and Reduce Cigarette Consumption?
Not if anyone in power and control has anything to say about it.
Update on Deeming Rule Appeal
1. The MRTP provision violates the First Amendment
2. Notably, they are not cigarettes, as they do not contain tobacco and there is no combustion or smoke.
Vaping And Harm Reduction: Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good
Because it is there.
Vaping And Harm Reduction: Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good
‘Real‐world’ compensatory behaviour
You can add this to your “we don’t know enough” files…
Alan Beard wrote about this – mentioning yours truly, and the brilliance of Norbert Zillitron, Bernd Mayer, Paul Barnes…
Before you read the titled section of ‘Real-world’, please see Alan’s blog first where VAPERS knew about it, and explained it. It took them a while to catch up… but they don’t or won’t listen to US.
From Alan Beard in 2015:
Evolving Nicotine Usage and Consequences
Now you can read their “catch-up”.
‘Real‐world’ compensatory behaviour
We are not idiots.
Erica is right.
And they go back to the gateway theory. If this were true, wouldn't they leave ecigs alone? If ecigs LEAD to smoking, then their income would not be at risk. If vapers turn into smokers then they would resort their products to quit smoking.
— Erika_Lynne (@Erika_Lynne_) July 3, 2018
How Vaping could disrupt Big Tobacco’s plans in Africa
Bloomberg predicts “by 2047 there will be more sales within vaping than the traditional tobacco.
MY opinion: Worldwide tobacco use would drop to -10% in less than 10 years without doing a thing if there were NO interference, regulation, restriction, tax and ban & they left consumers alone. Not just with e-cigarettes, but snus as well.
How Vaping could disrupt Big Tobacco’s plans in Africa
The Grey Miserable World of ‘Public Health’
Dick has a way with words… and I adore that.
“The hold that ‘public health’ has over politicians is astonishing, but then it’s because politicians are weak, cowardly, and ultimately incredibly stupid”
The Grey Miserable World of ‘Public Health’
Plain Packaging & the TPD
Speaking of adoration, Paul: Facts. Do. Matter.
Montana Proposal Punishes Lower Income Smokers
EACH time professional organizations (Yep, I’m talking to you) decide to *allow & *negotiate taxes/legislation instead of fighting them and without being clear on public record = #nicotine is not tobacco…
…without clear and extreme public objection, it (industry) is settling for years of the *definition of nicotine as tobacco being *taxed & *acceptable, and the shop owner and consumer will pay the price.
Here’s an excellent example of that from Lindsey Stroud of Heartland.org.
Montana Proposal Punishes Lower Income Smokers, Is A Disservice to Tobacco Harm Reduction
CASAA Tobacco 21 policy statement:
“Including low-risk alternatives in T21 laws is unwise, misleading”
Louder.
Outstanding.
Manipulation
On June 19th, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated adult smoking rates is 13.9% nationally.
On July 3rd, “Truth” Initiative put out a tweet claiming adult smoking is 17.1% nationally. I’m not sure how smoking rates went up 3.2% nationally in just two weeks but I asked my question anyway – which will certainly be ignored.
Selective sampling…
Business plan is:
Show lowering rates to increase “we’re doing our job” and winning. Give us more money.
Show – oops – an uptick in rates – “we need to do more”. Give us more money.
Think of the children™ is required for every press release.
Deny anything. Coordinate, manipulate – and fabricate…. everything.
Tax increases at any cost…..
WHY are you manipulating numbers @SGottliebFDA already explained?👇https://t.co/hdoMVwd7cA
Dr. Gottieb, WHY are these groups able to say what they like?
WHY are non-profit groups able to do this?
WHEN will you regulate THEM? 👇 https://t.co/K9z8NcHu4P— VapingIT, SPE, EEI (@Vapingit) July 6, 2018
Covered here: Truth Initiative manipulates tobacco numbers
Are Vapes Tobacco Products?
It’s still a thing.
Are Vapes Tobacco Products? The Confused Conversation About Categorization
How to Lie, Cheat, Manipulate and Mislead
Remember Stanton Glantz‘s famous words from 1992:
“and that’s the question that I have applied to my research relating to tobacco. If this comes out the way I think, will it make a difference? And if the answer is yes, then we do it, and if the answer is I don’t know then we don’t bother. Okay? And that’s the criteria.”
This link is – more for humor and posterity on my part, and may be self-explanatory on yours… or not… because they (surely there’s manipulation with any subject matter) get the numbers, data…they get the results, and outcomes they want. Then, they give it to the public just how they would like it to be interpreted.
That, my dear readers, is why they’re so angry about Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.
How to Lie, Cheat, Manipulate and Mislead using Statistics and Graphical Displays
Five years.
This could be any vape shop. I’ve had the privelege of meeting James Jarvis here in Ohio a couple times. James and his family are celebrating their monumental 5th year anniversary in a business in which government, pharma and political front groups are trying to destroy.
Employing – from my perspective – stellar people who are instrumental in the success and are recognized for their role as a team.
James, as I hope most shop owners are, is continuing with the necessity of taking on local, state and national issues with the consumer in each thought, step, testimony, letter, phone call, rally, billboard, political meeting, education, e-mail, podcast, and all the crazy “behind the scenes” things – – – no one ever really could imagine outside the mind of a shop owner (including me) is being done…to make the world a better place. 
More you may have missed:
#LOUDER:
Vapers: Tell the FDA You’re Not Merely An Anecdote!
From Alan Beard:
“Come on everyone else (any country from anywhere) consider signing NOW”
Act now to stop the EU vape tax
Battery safety with Reddit:
Reddit: You’re gonna blow yourself up
Have you met my OUR friends at vapers.org.uk?
You can find me joining David Goerlitz Saturday mornings on Vape Radio.
I proudly joined David on his latest podcast: David G Model Citizen.
You can find me here trying to be cordial on Facebook
You can find me here being a bit more evil on Twitter
You can also find me on LinkedIn
It’s FREE, have you joined CASAA? Have you added your testimony here?
Are you familiar with Tobacco Harm Reduction For Life
Medical, Research, Science Professionals:
Research:
Politics:
A Billion Lives
Your comments are NEVER filtered, always encouraged and welcome on this blog. There is definitely more to come.
Keep ON #Vaping On.
Kevin
