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New Jersey Politicians Reject Public Health Care Authorities, Approve E Cigarette Restrictions
Posted on December 19th, 2009 No commentsProminent public health care authorities are ignored by politicians on what one anti-smoking professional called “A potential public health disaster”.
New Jersey politicians have kept in line with today’s politicians and thrown out warnings by expert physicians and public health experts concerning the electronic cigarette, a new product that is creating quite a stir in the U.S. right now.
Letters, faxes and other forms of communications were used by top medical experts in the anti-smoking movement to defend the e cigarette from what one expert called “senseless regulations” and also claimed that the actions would put the public in general in a position to pay a terrible price.
The state Senate voted 38-0 Thursday to approve a bill to apply the provisions of the “New Jersey Smoke Free Air Act” to restrict the use of electronic smoking devices, commonly known as “e-cigarettes.”
The bill (S-3053) would expand the definition of “smoking” to include e-cigarettes and extend the ban on smoking by minors to include the use of e-cigarettes. It would define smoking as the burning or inhaling of tobacco or any other matter than can be smoked or inhaled, or the inhaling of smoke or vapor from an electronic smoking device.
Talk is already starting about lawsuits to counter the bill, because it could also enforce the non-use of asthma inhalers in public, and also for users of the e cigarette to be forced to share areas of second hand smoke and endangering their lives after they found an alternative that is deemed as “100 to 1,000 times safer” by public health officials from around the world, based on independent lab studies on the product.
“Elected officials are using scare tactics to pass bans and protect the companies these products threaten financially, they use terms like “an ingredient found in anti-freeze” to describe propylene glycol, when it is an that ingredient is also found in the food supply and asthma inhalers that children use on a daily basis,”states Tiffany Ellis, Public Relations Director of E Cigarettes National.” It is about time the smokers fight back at the ballots and remove any politician that uses deceptive propaganda to pass bills and protect the lobbyist and the companies that fund their election campaigns. It is time they serve the people, not special interest.”
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Today Show Supporting Criminal Proxy Attack Via Special Interest Groups
Posted on June 25th, 2009 No commentsI am starting this journal because it seems that the politicians are at it again, selling out Americans in favor of politics, money and special interest. I am talking about the E-Cigarette. This amazing new wonder is catching a lot of heat from the special interest groups, tobacco lobby, Pharma lobby, and as a result, the politicians who promise to “SERVE” us while they are in office. And they are even using the main stream media to push this propaganda, like on the today show!
So why am I so upset over this? It should be just another day at the office right? Another day in America? Well, there is a lot more to it. The big tobacco companies are still selling cigarettes that kill over 400,000 Americans each year here in the U.S. every year. There is a 2.3 BILLION, not million, but BILLION a year market for smoking cessation devices in the U.S. alone. So what do these two industries have to do with the situation?
Let me lay it out for you. The Tobacco companies make billions each year selling their death to people. They target the younger crowd and know that if the parents smoke, that there is a good chance that that a child will become a smoker, so they have perpetual growth mechanism within their industry of killing people from generation to generation. Since what they “ADD” to the tobacco makes them even more addictive and deadly, they created a “Cessation” market for the big pharmacuticle companies. This is because once wistle blowers let the cat out of the bag, and the tobacco industry was exposed, the pharma companies knew they had a gold mine of steady clients and they started lobbying heavily to get the FDA under their control with “approved” cessation products. This means you ,or anyone else can not buy things on the open market that works to help quit smoking the cancer sticks that the tobacco industry puts out.
Both industries co-sponsor (fancy word for “writes the bills”) tobacco bills so that they can tax smokers with a “sin tax” to collect money for the government. The government puts a portion of this tax revenue into special interest groups like the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society, ASH and many other N.G.O.’s to “fight” against tobacco organizations and for healthcare funding in the billions each year.
None of the laws are written to stop tobacco companies, or even attempt to outlaw the deadly stuff called tobacco. Now, here is where the rabbit hole get’s deep. If you look at the funding of these spacial interest groups, it is more than tax dollars that funds them. They are also funded by the big pharma companies and the tobacco industry also to the tune of over 400 million over the last 10 years.
Want some proof? The American Cancer Society; the American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association have all had experts state that there is no proof that the e-cigarette is safe and that they may attract the youth of this nation and entice them to start smoking, They even went on the Today Show to spew out this madness.The facts are that they are not the “public health officials” they are reported to be. They are in fact private foundations that are not governmental in nature and the people or “experts” as they are referred to have in the past and are present operated by funding from large pharmaceutical companies. One pharmaceutical company in particular has a money trail of 99 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to these three special interest groups. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has an estimated 700 million worth of stock in Johnson and Johnson, whose products are probably found in your medicine cabinet at this very moment.
The two main points of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations were that ”
(1) the Foundation encouraged its grantees to be activists; (2) advocacy was emphasized to bring about policy change”, and in their own chilling words, they “provided financial support and, in particular, funds to help lobbying efforts which the Foundation could not support directly.” Then there is the title : “6.5.4.3 E-Cigarettes Will Revolutionise the Face of Tobacco Smoking and Could Pose a Threat to the Smoking Cessation Market” of this release where the e cigarette industry is looked upon as a threat to their revenues. This was an outline for a board meeting for a pharma company. The link shows the actual outline. Check the numbers and you can see it yourself.Smoking cessation devices that are on the market and “approved” by the FDA are killing directly, or do not work at all. Pharmaceutical companies will no longer see a demand for the stop smoking aids they produce, such as suicide-inducing Chantix, manufactured by Pfizer if the e cigarette stays on the market because it works. Want proof of that also? Click Here to read a press release about 1 pissed family in Tennessee.
If you do a search for e cigarettes and “comments”, you will see that the basic population that understands that these work are not happy with out current situation.
Now for my final statements. I smoked for over 25 years, I spent the last 20 years of that 25 trying to quit and failed, until I came across the e cigarette. It has been right over 100 days since I put a tobacco cigarette to my lips and took a drag of their poison.
You can call it what you want, say what you want. I am still using the e cigarette, so in a sense it has not helped me to stop the “habit” so to speak, but it has helped me to QUIT smoking tobacco as an alternative. The e cigarette has water, flavor, nicotine and a food substance to create the look of smoke, so it is basicaly water vapor. Regular cigarettes are burning, have 4000 chemicals, of which 40 are known cancer causing chemicals, and a large portion of the rest are poison. So, in a sense, you stop smoking instantly, and they are scared to death that this will catch on because they know it works, and that is the last thing the pharma industry wants. Most cessation devices only help 2 to 3 % of smokers quit. I have personaly seen 6 people, not counting myself stop smoking instantly, and all are over 2 months into the use of the e cigarette.
I do not want to die a miserable death so that some fat cat politicians , lobbyist and pharma and tobacco CEO’s can make their bottom line look good. I would hope that you do some research yourself on this issue, pass this information to your family and friends, parents that smoke, and even your doctors. I have talked to several doctors and they all agree that they are safer. Lets get them into this also.
I know that you are a decent human if you are still reading this after all of the information I just gave you, so stand up and pass this along. If you are the decent person I believe you are, then you surely do not want people to die that need not die, but if you tell nobody, then you are in a sense helping to kill them. Just the facts.
Please pass this information on, the life you save will love you forever for getting this information to them.
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E-Cigarettes Will Revolutionize The Face Of Tobacco Smoking And Could Pose A Threat To the Smoking Cessation Market
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 No commentsThe above title may seem to be fictional, but is an actual section title within a recent pharmaceutical industry report by Tiffany Ellis
GAINESVILLE, FL — (OfficialWire) — 06/02/09 — Whenever the term “e cigarette” comes into play in a conversation, the word “controversy” comes to mind due to the negative press put out about this new invention, but what are the underlying facts of this controversy? The American Cancer Society; the American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association have all had experts state that there is no proof that the e-cigarette is safe and that they may attract the youth of this nation and entice them to start smoking.The facts are that they are not the “public health officials” they are reported to be. They are in fact private foundations that are not governmental in nature and the people or “experts” as they are referred to have in the past and are present operated by funding from large pharmaceutical companies. One pharmaceutical company in particular has a money trail of 99 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to these three special interest groups. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has an estimated 700 million worth of stock in Johnson and Johnson, whose products are probably found in your medicine cabinet at this very moment. The two main points of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations were that ”
(1) the Foundation encouraged its grantees to be activists; (2) advocacy was emphasized to bring about policy change”, and in their own chilling words, they “provided financial support and, in particular, funds to help lobbying efforts which the Foundation could not support directly.” Then there is the title of this release where the e cigarette industry is looked upon as a threat to their revenues.
The e cigarette industry has sponsored three known studies on the products to prove that they are safe and the studies are public. The studies were completed by two different government approved clinical studies labs, one in the United Kingdom, LPD Lab Services, which is governmentally certified by the United Kindom Accreditation Service. In the UKAS’s own words, “accreditation by UKAS demonstrates the competence, impartiality and performance capability of these evaluators.” In light of this, the accusations that the study was biased due to it being funded by the brand that was being tested can be considered to be without merit and much the same can be said for the tests performed in New Zealand, since they were also performed by a internationally recognized company called Health New Zealand.Health New Zealand was founded by Dr Murray Laugesen in 1995 after serving a full 18 years as an established medical officer in the Ministry of Health and in the Public Health Commission. He is one of the most recognized anti-smoking health practitioners in New Zealand and Australia and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a medal from the World Health Organization in 1998 “for achievements deemed worthy of international recognition in promoting the concept of tobacco-free societies.” Dr. Laugesen claims that after having performed tests on e-cigarettes, they are 100 to 1,000 times safer than commercial tobacco cigarettes.
Considering that the pharmaceutical smoking cessation market is a 3 billion dollar cash cow annually, is it any wonder why millions of people are questioning special interest groups and the FDA about their stance on e-cigarettes?
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