E Cigs need exposure. Protest march???

[marjoriemitchell]

Lollie, haven't you realised yet this country is no longer a democeatic country but run by a load of thieving , lieing dictators? Oh, may I say that? Well we do have freedom of speech......as yet.

[Chrissie]

Feb 5, 2010 13:41:41 GMT Scylla said:

Feb 5, 2010 9:16:43 GMT Chrissie said:

Brilliant idea having those links in your sig Fox

See? I said she wuz an asset

scylla

I couldn't agree more with you Scylla

Also agrees with the lovely Marj

[foxy9212]

Feb 5, 2010 13:41:41 GMT Scylla said:

Feb 5, 2010 9:16:43 GMT Chrissie said:

Brilliant idea having those links in your sig Fox

See? I said she wuz an asset

scylla

Just click 'modify' on my Profile page and you can nick the links directly from my sig box there. (anyone with the relevant permissions that is). Tis a good idea to have 'em in every post I reckon.

Fox

[Chrissie]

And yet even more of an asset - thanks Foxy

[nana]

I think Marjorie's post at #15 says it all, really.

Ban ecigs 'cos they're bad for you; carry on selling cigarettes 'cos we get lots of lovely tax revenue.

Want to stop smoking? Don't buy an ecig 'cos it's so bad that we've banned it; instead, use these nicotine patches, which are much better for you, and really won't work so you'll end up going back to those lovely revenue-earning cigarettes......

[lynwlt]

And if we really want to stop smoking by using drugs and NRT, well, that's all available free on the NHS so we can cost the government even more than we do now..

Lynda

[Chrissie]

Very well said Nana & Lynda!

[foxy9212]

someoldfartorother ... "Having extended the age of retirement to ensure that fewer of you get that far, thus saving us from paying out state pensions from non-existent funds we've wasted on other projects, why do you suppose we would have any interest in assisting you to prolong your lives by seeking perceived safer alternatives to smoking the tax revenue producing tobacco products?"

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Fox

[Chrissie]

Lol Fox

[Scylla]

[lolli]

You're all so right.
So - nicotine is fine EXCEPT when vaped - are these people idiots!
The e cig can be used without nicotine so how can it be deemed illegal ???
Perhaps glycerine is gonna be banned the following month ???

[foxy9212]

That seems to be the consensus Lollipop. When the powers that be started their campaign against the e-cig, it was the PG they objected to. One venerable gent who hadn't done his homework intimated it was antifreeze, toxic to humans etc., quite wrong and a different product. PG is used in all manner of everyday items and also in the inhalers used by asthmatics as an airway-opener. Manufacturers, such as Intellicig, announced their ranges using VG and immediately all negative attention transferred to liquid nicotine as being lethal! Apparently we're all far too stupid to use the product safely and, therefore, nicotine must be in a 'sealed' form that is tamper-proof. Pleasant tasting flavours mustn't be made available either just in case lottery-winning ankle biters decide they are attracted to vaping rather than breaking the law by smoking tobacco.

Eventually the tobacco and pharmaceutical industry will corner the market in 'e-cigs' and will only produce nicotine in cartridge form at inflated prices - heaven forefend adults will get their clumsy hands on liquid; we obviously don't have the skill to fill cartridges ourselves - we need to be protected as we know not what we do! [end of rant]

Fox >

[Chrissie]

Couldn't agree more with you Fox.

I wish that more people realised just how powerful the drug & tobacco companies are.

If the drug companies in particular want to push a product they have the funds to do so & if they want to see a product banned - likewise. Their power & wealth is fornominal (SP? Scylla will especially laugh at this one ) And if big pharm want to stub out (pun intended) a competitor - they have the resources to do so.

[Scylla]

Feb 6, 2010 22:47:36 GMT Chrissie said:

fornominal (SP? Scylla will especially laugh at this one )

It's not so much the spelling of phenomenal that made me giggle {{{Chrissie}}} but the fact that you predicted it

But I was dismayed today to notice that I persist in spelling squeezy "squeazy", so I'm a kettle-black-calliing pot!!!

scylla





Edit - and even then I did a middle-finger-of-wrong-hand typo so put an "i" in "phenomenal" where an "e" should go, shoulda done a Preview

[Chrissie]

PMSL Scylla - no wonder my spell check had a problem with that one

I'm so over tired so my poor brain couldn't even compute the fact that I needed to start with a "phe" rather than a "for" I'm now truly laughing out loud about that way over the top spelling