Posted on 02/05/2015 8:59:55 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Last week’s article, which detailed officialdom’s unrelenting war on e-cigarettes, generated plenty of e-mail and commentary–100 percent of which was favorable. Many commenters were truly dismayed how the public trust could be betrayed by money, egos, fanaticism, or a combination of the three. Others asked how they could fight back; more on that later.
As to the California Department of Public Health, this farcical agency seems hell-bent on channeling Joseph Goebbels as it doubles down on the big lies introduced in its Protect Your Family From e-Cigarettes pamphlet discussed last week. A few days ago, it issued State Health Officer’s Report on E-Cigarettes: A Community Health Threat.
This latest salvo is little more than a built-out version of the pamphlet, replete with dozens of dubious references; toxicology that wouldn’t pass muster at a junior high science fair; hackneyed appeals to “save the children”; and lurid photos inspired by Reefer Madness. There are also cockamamie citations on “nicotine poisoning,” which in many cases are nothing more than casual inquiries to poison control centers; and further demonization of nicotine, which somehow is quite all right when contained in a Big Pharma product. Lest we forget, they repeat the outrageous lie that e-cigs don’t help people quit smoking.
Bill Godshall, Executive Director of Smokefree Pennsylvania, weighed in immediately…
“The California Department of Public Health is now protecting cigarettes and threatening the lives of vapers and smokers. Nearly every sentence in the CDPH e-cig report is false or misleading fear mongering propaganda. By issuing this report, Ron Chapman (CDPH Director) has committed public health malpractice of the worst kind.”
Well said, but the attack on e-cigs is by no means the extent of the bad medicine being promulgated by officialdom every single day. This column has discussed the Establishment’s ghoulish adherence to...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
E-cigs are worse than Pot!
There’s all sorts of chemicals in them thar solutions.
And they are gateway devices for tobacco.
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