Great analogy

[vigowomble]

I really liked this analogy I found in this article link so I thought I'd share it with you.

"as a public-health strategy, crushing e-cigs under the weight of restriction and regulation makes as much sense as bolting shut firedoors in case someone wants to break in to the burning building."

Spot on.

[djs]

Well spotted!

Campaigners are afraid that e-cigs – being, you know, far less harmful – will become ubiquitous in the way that tobacco cigarettes were 50 years ago. One thing that anti-smoking campaigners are never afraid of, however, is demanding that we ‘think of the children’ – in this case, through the old ‘gateway drug’ argument. If the kids see people doing something that looks like smoking, so it goes, they will inevitably try e-cigs for themselves and eventually fall into the clutches of tobacco addiction. Thus, e-cigs need to be as vigorously controlled as tobacco, because one will inevitably lead to another. As I’ve noted before on spiked, as a public-health strategy, crushing e-cigs under the weight of restriction and regulation makes as much sense as bolting shut firedoors in case someone wants to break in to the burning building.

[charon]

Good find vigowomble

Oh so very true, pity the powers that be will pay no attention to it.

[Brambles]

My idle thoughts for today....

Ever had that feeling when you strive to achieve something but when you can there its is quite a disappointment as now you have achieved your goal it is boring. Job done, complete, finished, nothing left to do, you can go home now, so life becomes empty until the next challenge comes along.

Well so it is for anti tobacco lobbyists, they now have a solution to eliminate tobacco use, its here now, there is a solution...their goal is finally in sight. The light at the end of the tunnel. But now what, what happens to their lives, their dreams to fight tobacco and win. They have nothing to fight for, they have no challenge, they realise this and so need to keep fighting and hence their reason to hate safer e-cigs as well as tobacco, their need to keep fighting for a cause even though they have all but won their challenge. They just don't want to believe it.