Friday, May 27, 2011

Hypocracy, democracy or apologistic

There is much out there about the cigarette industry. There is much out there about SNUS. There is much out there about the relative risks. There is a poverty of knowledge about vaping.  Of course vaping is quite new, nebulizers with PG or VG have been with us over 60 years- just not with nicotine as the inhalant. To date there has been no definitive answer to vaping nicotine and its effect. There are scatterred and at times contredictory articles and many self reported success stories. Vaping lacks the research needed and by several accounts attempts to undertake these studies have been blocked on moral and ethical grounds by IRB's (Investigational Review Boards) and the FDA.  The inhalation of tobacco smoke is a known health hazard. R.J, Reynold's own Mission Statement reads:


In other words:
Yes our products kill, but we are working on it.
And of significant self-disclosure- nicotine not shown to be a significant health risk. It is the inhaled smoke that is damaging.

Vaping is nicotine without the smoke. Yet it is scrutinized for many reasons.  I remember in a Woody Allen movie the comment that nicotine  was healthy it was the presentation that killed you.  The above is an apologist's rendering, brilliantly written. Let us hope that the vaping community can come together and create a document as such (without apology), create a venders organization that can guide the industry into some standardization and use truths and accuracy as its content.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law - Sir Winston Churchill
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. - Sir Winston Churchill

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government - Thomas Jefferson

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty - Ronald Reagan

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting - Buddha

I pray that we start and that we go all the way.


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