The American Stop Smoking Society has chosen today to release their anti-ecigarette movie. Hmm – sure it has nothing to do with the release of their sponsor’s new stop smoking drug! If you do not wish to watch the whole video, here is a extract from the press release issued by Simon Chin, the Director [...]

The American Stop Smoking Society or ASSS has announced a campaign against the electronic cigarette – see the news item I have scanned in below. I am still trying to find out more information about the campaign, and should be able to post a movie about it tomorrow. (Update – you can view the e-cig [...]

We haven’t liked the American Cancer Society since their spokesperson compared smokers to mass murders. I was also shocked recently to find out that the American Cancer Society has a corporate deal with GSK, where they endorse the nicotine replacement products threatened by the e-cigarette – strangely enough, I only found out via the comments [...]

A Dangerous Threat to Liberty The anti-electronic cigarette campaign seems to assume that smokers are children, and that decisions must be made for them. Smokers, the assumption seems to be, are not capable of making their own decisions. Which leaves public health campaigners, who have already helped ban snus, the safest form of chewing tobacco [...]

Our story on Associated Content revealing the connection between Big Pharm and the anti electronic-cigarette movement has been Dugg by an e-cigarette forum user. Digg the story too and keep the ball rolling!

Our recent Associated Content article exposing the links between big pharma and the anti-smoking campaigners leading the charge against the electronic cigarette, namely Senator Lutenburg and Public Health Organisations such as the American Cancer Society, lead to comments that revealed a conflict of interest. As we said in the article, we don’t know that the [...]

The battle over the electronic cigarette has moved beyond our humble blogs and forums and to the seat of America’s government. A few days ago we reported how a big pharma supported senator had written to the FDA asking for the electronic cigarette to be banned. Now, however, another Senator who is a fan of [...]

Chantix and the E-Cigarette – one of these is causing suicide, aggressive behavious and drowsiness. The other has caused no serious problems. So which are senators and public health campaigners calling to be banned? The answer is the electronic cigarette, which in several years of use has yet to see any serious problems reported. The [...]

As the campaign against the e-cigarette hots up a petition is being held to keep e-cigarettes going. To sign the petition go to Keep Life Saving Electronic Cigarettes Available. And spread the word!

A post I ran across today on E-Cig news was entitled Senator whose campaign was financed by Big Pharma to the tune of $128,250 seeks to halt sale of e-cigarettes. The article linked to a press release by Lautenburg, and obviously there was no mention of funding there. Instead it sung his praises and included [...]