Anti-ecig Opponents Launch Petition to FDA

[StringDancer]

ASH (Action on Smoking & Health), a long-time anti-smoker organization, is turning up the heat to promote their anti-ecig agenda. Not known as the most tolerant of folks, nor so much concerned with the civil liberties of (say)... all Americans, ASH has launched a petition to the FDA calling for severe regulation of e-cigs.

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COMING SOON TO A NO-SMOKING SECTION WHERE YOU ARE SITTING:

A new device for addicted smokers who want to be able to get their nicotine fix by "smoking" in places where smoking is prohibited, and do so by exhaling a cloud of "smoke" made up of a chemical which is both toxic and addictive.

This new product, already being sold and used in many U.S. cities, is called an e-cigarette.

It doesn't burn tobacco, but it does allow smokers to inhale – and to exhale into the air around them – the addictive substance nicotine which constricts blood vessels, increases the heart rate, and produces other changes in a body (especially in people not accustomed to it).

Most astonishingly, the product is currently not subject to any regulation, so we have no way of knowing what other chemicals might also be given off when the user exhales into the air. FOR A COPY OF ASH' s LEGAL PETITION, SEE BELOW.

ASH TO THE RESCUE

To help protect nonsmokers, and also smokers who might use the product instead of quitting, ASH has filed a formal legal petition demanding that it be regulated by the FDA.

Want to Sit Next to This Guy?

If you don't want people sitting next to you – in a waiting room, restaurant, bar, or any other area where smoking is now prohibited – using one of these devices to get around smoking bans, and forcing you and your loved ones to inhale deadly nicotine – please help now!

SOURCE: http://ash.org/ecigpetition

[Christopher]

unbelievable. But those same people drive around a car all day spewing crap into the air. So full of s***

[StringDancer]

Exactly. What we're seeing here is intolerance taken to the molecular level. We, as vapers, cannot claim that what we exhale is "nothing but water vapor". Whatever nicotine our bodies do not absorb is most likely exhaled. Our significant others report back to us that there's a faint smell of wild cherries (or whatever) in the air. So there's some cycling of what we vape into the air around us. Most likely unconsumed PG or VG is exhaled as well.

So it's that microscopic inhaliatory content (I coined the term 'inhaliatory', BTW) being dispelled that's freaking out the anti-smoker crowd. It is quite apt, Chris, to mention pollution from the very cars the health-nazis drive relative to what they are likely to ever be exposed to from we lowly vapers. We're talking parts per billion compared to the voluminous output of any internal combustion engine. Gimme a break!

[woodensaint]

The world is full of jackasses and it seems that all of them are for prohibition of one thing or another.

[PoppaC]

unbelievable. But those same people drive around a car all day spewing crap into the air. So full of s***

Amen, Christopher! It takes everything I have to hold back listening to the BS. I have never seen such ignorance in my entire life. It is refreshing to see our 'intelligent', patriotic and truthful young folks like you and many on this forum voicing honest and good opinions. Please don't stop. Everyone seems to dictate to us to be tolerant to their intolerance. Hypocrites and Jackasses!