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In reply to the discussion: People who want to ban e-cigs are the useful idiots of Big Tobacco [View all]Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)49. I know more than a few adults who switched that prefer fruity/candy e-cigs to tobacco flavors.
This may be hard to understand, but as a former smoker, I can't stand the taste of regular cigarettes, but enjoyed vaping flavors like "French vanilla", "Caramel", and "Toffee".
If a person wants enjoys bubble gum flavor or cotton candy flavor, that is their choice.
Are you suggesting there should be some "head arbiter" to approve flavors to make sure that no young person would enjoy?
And, if so, better get started on the liquor and coffee industry first.
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People who want to ban e-cigs are the useful idiots of Big Tobacco [View all]
ButterflyBlood
Mar 2014
OP
There's always a certain type of people who yearn to be the hall monitors of life.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2014
#3
Your argument would apply to regular cigarettes, too. And you lost that long ago. n/t
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#205
maybe we don't want nicotine addicts spewing toxic vapors into our air supply. there is a better way
msongs
Mar 2014
#5
People who vape exclusively don't smoke cigarettes anymore. That's the very definition of
Demit
Mar 2014
#12
Oh, I know that. I just thought he/she/it should be provided with a helpful fact.
Demit
Mar 2014
#26
So not wanting to breathe in nicotine from someone else's mouth makes me a "crazy?"
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#174
Correctimundo. Also let's not forget, it's not the nicotine that killed so many smokers anyway.
Demit
Mar 2014
#184
I'm exposed to perfume, farts, urine, cleaning supply odors, scented candles, air fresheners....
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#189
"sitting in the park puffing an e-cig" If only it were just that. But it isn't and I think you
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#195
Let me get this straight - because the air is polluted we should deliberately pollute it more?
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#200
For the sake of argument, if it were proven that e-cigs produce less pollution than perfume en toto.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#202
According to a French environmental study, a two hour barbecue = 220,000 cigarettes...
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#252
Yeah well you brought up the strawman "puffing in the park." Way to shoot it down!
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#298
"I'll amend that to big fat ninny." Wow, aren't you the clever debater?NT
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#297
Sorry - I don't play Gish Gallop. You gave your citation and it turned out tainted.
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#197
Fine, but don't pretend you know the facts if you don't do your research.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#199
The study you cited was a selective review of the topic. A proper review cites all of the studies,
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#223
To those who see "big tobacco" hiding behind every twig and branch, I suppose so.
beevul
Mar 2014
#295
False Choice. Clean outside air and clean indoor air are not mutually exclusive.
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#308
I enjoy riding my motorcycle/bicycle without a helmet and driving my car without seatbelt
Bandit
Mar 2014
#15
We are talking about people engaging in reckless behavior, ie. putting poison in their body
Bandit
Mar 2014
#18
If you are going to legislate against reckless behavior that affects only that oerson then
Bandit
Mar 2014
#23
I know more than a few adults who switched that prefer fruity/candy e-cigs to tobacco flavors.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#49
Since you are an adult, you can choose between grass clippings, wood chips, and dirt flavors.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#45
I don't have to. I can go the local vape store and buy what flavors I want.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#72
So Big Tobacco which has 1% share of the e-cig market may or may not be targeting youth.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#235
Which is the exact thing which was said about the cigarette advertising decades ago.
Ms. Toad
Mar 2014
#244
I'm not concerned about the adults using it. I'm concerned about teens who haven't
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#74
It requires much more of an investment to start, that only "pays off" when you start
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#83
you need to have burning tobacco to have smoke right? Everyone knows that.... N/T
Tyhanna
Mar 2014
#150
You're being disingenuous here. I'm the 'advocate' who said "Stop calling it smoking,
Demit
Mar 2014
#238
You're also probably not gonna put that stuff in your (non) pipe and smoke it anyway n/t
Ms. Toad
Mar 2014
#306
I have in my hand right now a Rejuve brand individual e-cig. It cost $4.99.
Comrade Grumpy
Mar 2014
#173
Very true. Brick and mortar e-cig stores don't usually sell the Njoy or Blu brands.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#52
DU is home to authoritarians of all stripes. We have drone killing apologists, war-mongerers,
Romulox
Mar 2014
#101
Would you mind telling me how the 'nicotine' used in e-cigarettes is manufactured and by whom.
Tikki
Mar 2014
#63
"swaying the low-information public into thinking vaping is just as bad as smoking."
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#179
One company holds the overwhelming majority of the market share with e cigs.
NCTraveler
Mar 2014
#87
If you can point me to where I said they are selling to children at the counter. nt
NCTraveler
Mar 2014
#136
How would independents without retail shops advertise to children?
Waiting For Everyman
Mar 2014
#152
Well - when people who are addicted to nicotine can satisfy the urge with tomatoes,
Ms. Toad
Mar 2014
#259
Do you know for a fact they included independent sellers in their market research?
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#292
There are three big tobacco e-cig vendors, and their market share does not equal 100%
Ms. Toad
Mar 2014
#293
That's "retail market share" but most of the market is not retail.
Waiting For Everyman
Mar 2014
#261
I have tried to explain this, but my words fall on deaf ears and closed minds.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#262
I see nothing wrong with e-cigs. If they are risky, then that should be known. I'm fed up with
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#106
Not hall monitors…you are welcome to smoke, vap, toke* in your own hall…just not mine or others.
Tikki
Mar 2014
#111
Please don't use perfume, air fresheners, oven spray, bug spray, drive a car,
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#118
Vap away from those who are young and impressionable, don't fool yourself that you are not addicted
Tikki
Mar 2014
#169
I don't smoke. I don't vape... as I stated up above. I'm just not a jerk.
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#231
Streets, parks, and beaches in one of the most toxically polluted environments in
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#143
Yeah I am getting sick and tired of my office mate spraying oven cleaner around!
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#180
The entire defense of e-cigarettes is that they're not as bad as regular ones.
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2014
#296