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Post by Jen on Mar 21, 2013 23:05:24 GMT
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Post by djs on Mar 21, 2013 23:11:50 GMT
That is a great article. Spot on.  |
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Post by ant on Mar 21, 2013 23:21:53 GMT
Awesome, good find
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Post by chrisss on Mar 21, 2013 23:27:18 GMT
Excellent. You don't have to agree with every point made. The important thing is The Economist is a heavyweight magazine and carries the same sort of clout as the FT or Wall Street Journal
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Post by Jen on Mar 21, 2013 23:31:59 GMT
'The right approach is not to denormalise smoking, but to normalise e-smoking.' This is the key bit for me - we should all be out and proud  |
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Post by Banky on Mar 21, 2013 23:33:01 GMT
Great article, when I saw the title I thought someone's has come up with drink related house fires,
caused by someone falling asleep with a lit cigarette in bed on falling asleep on a chair when drunk
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Post by MarkS on Mar 21, 2013 23:48:28 GMT
Very Good article. Thanks for sharing Jen.
Share, Share and Share again folks.
Send it to your MEP's and MP's too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2013 0:11:41 GMT
Cheers, Jen!  That was actually a decent article for a change, with some decent comments to boot. Well done The Economist! |
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Post by robby on Mar 22, 2013 1:18:25 GMT
wow, that`s a bit scary, full of common sense, what`s the world coming to!!!! |
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Post by lenny59 on Mar 22, 2013 1:27:09 GMT
Excellent post..........Worth a link to our MPs/MEPs I think
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2013 3:00:13 GMT
Great find Jen. I have added it to the AAE-C Facebook page and my own and G+1'd it too |
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Post by MarkS on Mar 22, 2013 11:15:23 GMT
It is a very good article, but some of the comments being left are annoying and outright disinformation.
Reply to those comments people. Do not let the ANTZ hijack and discredit this excellent piece with their claptrap & ignorance.
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Post by genguskhan on Mar 22, 2013 11:27:19 GMT
I laugh at some of the comments people make not just on that artical but most others I think the ex smokers are worse? " I quit with will power alone so just quit and get over it" with statements like that I wonder if they are really over it? think someone should give them a ego to try as they sound so bitter about it |
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Post by Jen on Mar 22, 2013 11:36:18 GMT
Oh, it's the same old same old. Quit or die, nicotine is poisonous and bad for you, addiction is evil, yadda yadda...yawn!
No, I wouldn't recommend anyone who has never smoked to have a vape. If I had the choice, I'd never have taken up smoking. In reality, though, these things can save lives, cause no passive harm and don't stink. End of story.
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Post by robby on Mar 22, 2013 11:41:00 GMT
Oh, it's the same old same old. Quit or die, nicotine is poisonous and bad for you, addiction is evil, yadda yadda...yawn! No, I wouldn't recommend anyone who has never smoked to have a vape. If I had the choice, I'd never have taken up smoking. In reality, though, these things can save lives, cause no passive harm and don't stink. End of story. I think we would also probably find a few of the moaners actually gave up smoking (and nicotine) and think that we should suffer just as much as they did lol, they think "It`s just not bloody fair!!!" |
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That was actually a decent article for a change, with some decent comments to boot. Well done The Economist! 
