Big Pharma and Anti-Smoking=Incest

Once again Dr.

In the Oct 1st edition  of his Tobacco News blog Dr. Siegel stated: Anti-Smoking Groups that Oppose Electronic Cigarettes Received an Additional $1.4 Million from Big Pharma, Beyond the $2.8 Million Revealed Earlier; Groups Repeatedly Failed to Disclose this Conflict of Interest

 Previously, Siegel revealed that anti-smoking groups which opposed electronic cigarettes received payments from Pfizer to the tune of $2.8 million. Today, I expose further financial links between Big Pharma and these anti-smoking groups, this time from the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the smoking cessation drugs Zyban, Wellbutrin, Commit, NiQuitin, CQ/Nicoderm, CQ/Nicabate, and Nicorette.

Click here to read the complete story: http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/anti-smoking-groups-that-oppose.html You may also read his previous blog post at: http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/anti-smoking-groups-that-opposed.html

Personally, I wish to thank Dr. Siegel for shining light upon the truth.

 

 

Jim’s Story: How Using E-Cigs Changed My Life

Please note that this post was written by Jim Richards and recounts how E-Cigs have helped improve his personal health. Jim Richards works as a marketing director for Jasper and Jasper, an electronic cigarette company in the UK. After suffering from severe health problems due to smoking, he now seeks to help others curb their habits by utilising the tool of electronic cigarettes. I have no affiliate connection with Jasper and Jasper and am not personally familiar with their product line. As I have previously noted, if you have a personal story of how E-Cigs have helped you, I would like to print your story and have no problem with printing a link back to your own website. Too many links or affiliate links will be cause for rejection of your story. I will, however, suggest changes to your original work.

There was once a time when I would smoke 40 cigarettes a day without thinking about it. You could perhaps add another 10 or 20 onto that if I was having a night out with friends.Like a lot of smokers that I know, I was smoking a high volume regardless of what the dangers were to my health. The bottom line was that I felt great, I looked great, and was feeling no negative effects at all from smoking so heavily, so why would I want to give up?

My first inclination that I might have been overdoing it came after a game of football with friends one evening. We only played for around an hour, but by the time we had finished I felt like someone was crushing my lungs. I simply could not breathe. Not thinking smoking had anything do with it, as it was the first time this had happened, I went to the Doctor.Immediately I was sent for scans at the hospital, which was worrying. Nothing came as a bigger shock that two weeks later, however, when I went to discuss my results.“One more game of football away from a massive heart attack or a stroke” were the only words that really made any sense. The rest was all “Doctor speak” to me. What I did do upon leaving the surgery in a state approaching shock was to get some information on e-cigarettes.

I already knew about nicotine patches and other similar products, and none of them seemed like much of a good idea to me. E-cigarettes it would be then, and I ordered myself a set online. It arrived a few days later and immediately I began to use it. People say giving up smoking is hard, but let me tell you, those words from the Doctor’s mouth probably served to make this the easiest thing I ever did. Despite smoking heavily for so long, I began to feel better after only a week or two on the e-cigarettes.

Why was this?   · All I was taking in was nicotine. No smoke, no tar, no nothing. The coughing was quite serious as my lungs got fired up again, but after so many years of heavy smoking that is the least to be expected.· Although it took a long time, after a while I was able to reduce my nicotine intake from the e-cigarettes. I still “smoke” them a little now, as I am worried about starting to smoke the real things again should I stop nicotine altogether.

Importantly, I could start exercising. Although I had always looked great, the hidden damage was horrific. I joined the gym and started off walking to get myself going again, and last week I managed to get a game of football in, with no shortage of breath at the end.

E-cigarettes have enabled me to transform my life and, although I feel great, as I did anyway, I am more at peace now knowing that my body is in a much better physiological state than before.

My New LavaTube Mini Mod

I just received a new LavaTube Mini Mod and I am really enjoying it. I really questioned using a PV that has all the fancy electronics as I worried about it’s durability but I have found the MM to be an excellent addition to my personal vaping experience. Now I don’t have to keep changing batteries everytime I change attys and cartos as all that I have to do now is just adjust the MM to my desired voltage so that I can get the best flavor and vape. I originally got it from Vapor Alley for my son but I like it so much that I am keeping it for myself.








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Wow The Vision Clearomizer

I just received the Vision Clearomizer from Vapor Alley and I have decided that it is my new favorite toy. Unlike other clearomizers, I find that it is quite well made, gives good vapor and has (for a clearomizer) surprisingly good flavor. For more information, please stop by Rick’s VaporAlley.com and click on the clearomizer tab. In fact, I just ordered several more so that I can change flavors throughout the day. Actually, most of the time, I am even using the Vision at home rather than a cartomizer as it is just so convenient and the flavor is so surprisingly good. BTW-I have found that you should stay under 4.3 volts as it is only a 2 ohm unit and higher voltages tend to burn the e-juice.

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Incredible Price Break on MODS


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Get Involved and Save the E-Cig


CASAA is a non-profit organization that works to ensure the availability of reduced harm alternatives to smoking and to provide smokers and non-smokers alike with truthful information about such alternatives. Support your right to use reduced-risk alternatives to tobacco, including electronic cigarettes, snus, and dissolvable tobacco.

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Cigarette Ads from the Darkside

This is an iconic image of Lucky Strike’s “20,679 Physicians Say” campaign, and due to its manipulative quackery, it has become the iconic image of Stanford University’s exhibit as well – a stellar example of the patently false and deceptive claims put forth by tobacco. We might laugh at there old advertisements today but it is still typical of the misleading information and outright lies that the Darkside (Big Tobacco) used to entice us into the deadly habit of smoking. This is just one of a large selection from a display that is being exhibited by Stanford University Medical. Click here to view the complete collection and the written material that Stanford has collected.

According to Stanford: Early in the last century, when questions about the health effects of smoking became a topic of widespread discussion, tobacco companies undertook a multi-faceted campaign to allay the public’s fears. As terms like “smoker’s cough” and “coffin nails” (referring to cigarettes) began to appear in the popular vernacular, tobacco marketers recognized the need to counter this threat to their livelihood.

One strategy was to use endorsements by healthy and vigorous appearing singers, Hollywood stars, and elite athletes. Another was to raise fears over weight gain: “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet.”Among the more reprehensible tactics was the utilization of the image of the noble and caring physician to sell cigarettes: Doctors were depicted both as satisfied and enthusiastic partakers of the smoking habit (“More Doctors Smoke Camels”). Images of medical men (and a few token women) appeared under soothing reassurances of the safety of smoking. Liberal use was also made of pseudo-scientific medical reports and surveys.

Stanford’s intention is to tell—principally through advertising images—the story of how, between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, tobacco companies used deceptive and often patently false claims in an effort to reassure the public of the safety of their products.

As vapers, we are well aware of the negative impact of tobacco cigarettes and have chosen electronic cigarettes as we believe them to be a safer alternative to coffin nails. While younger smokers cannot claim that they were unaware of smoking’s dangers, older smokers (I am 65) fell for the lies that the Darkside fed to us.







Breaking News-Big Tobacco Buys Into E-Cigs


In a move that is both scary and promising, the 3rd largest US maker of traditional tobacco cigarettes, Lorillard-maker of Newports, has announced that it has purchased Blu E-Cigs, a long established and well known brand of Electronic Cigarette. The implications are both promising and scary. While “Big Tobacco” has the resources to test and prove the safety and efficacy of Electronic Cigarettes, they also have a powerful lobby in Washington which could effect legislation and FDA rules which might have a damaging effect upon smaller less established E-Cig companies. Please leave a comment on this breaking news and how you think it may affect you.







Free Electronic Cigarette Book-Save a Life


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