Our Managing Director is shown displaying the ECis cigarette and an E-cigar kit in the South Wales Evening Post. One of our local customers, a cockle picker who likes to smoke the E-Pipe in bad weather when out on the sands, is show with his trusty pipe.
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According to GooZad, Dr Joel Nitzkin, chair of the American Association of Public Health Physicians, the Tobacco Bill recently passed in America is a fraud.
Dr Joel Nitzkin was referring in particular not to the safe alternatives that are likely to be banned (although we discussed this in our electronic cigarette interview) but to the menthol cigarettes that remain legal while clove cigarettes are banned.
The public health groups that betrayed the public’s trust by working with Philip Morris to support the bill were persuaded by tobacco to accept the menthol cigarettes.
The ultimate reason for the continuing sale of tobacco, according to William Robinson of the National African American Tobacco Prevention Network, was the influence that the deep pockets of the tobacco industry could buy.
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The recent American tobacco bill has also been called the Philip Morris Tobacco bill by tobacco harm reduction campaigners such as Bill Godshall.
As we pointed out in E Cigarette Investment, all this is good news for Philip Morris, and Nick Schulz has this morning pointed out that Morning Star has lifted Philip Morris’s rating to 5 stars, its highest possible rating for a stock.
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Fresh from their victories over smoking, public health groups have a new target – unhealthy food. Stating that taxing and prohibiting anything unhealthy is a logical extension of their attack on smoking, groups now argue that unhealthy food should experience similar taxes to cigarettes. And it’s not likely to stop there…. We spoke to Simon Chin, Director of the American Anti Smoking Society, about these new plans.
Simon Chin, can you tell us why your society is now targetting unhealthy food?
Well, it is a logical extension of taxing cigarettes. I mean, someone obese is just as likely to die young as somone smoking ten cigarettes a day. So why should fatty foods be treated any differently?
So what foods will be taxed?
Well, anything that could be construed as unhealthy, butter, full fat milk, chocolate of course will be heavily taxed, sweets, white bread, …
And what won’t be taxed?
We think pumpkin seeds could be left untaxed, but we are still uncertain as to whether they could be carcinogenic or not.
But surely it is people’s choice whether they eat healthy food or not?
Really, James, just look at the smoking situation. Our taxes on smoking, forcing people to give up because they can’t afford it, preventing people from smoking if they want to see their children – all these prove that people don’t have freedom and choice when it comes to health. You have to be healthy, and that’s all there is to it.
But obesity doesn’t cause harm to third parties like smoking does?
That’s where you are wrong James. We have come up with a new concept called second hand obesity, and also third hand obesity, where we have proved that just by looking at an obese person from across a crowded room you feel sick and you become fatter. Why just the other day I looked at someone fat and I instantly put on several grammes.
Are there any other measures you plan to take?
Yes, fat people will be made to eat outside to reduce the risk of passive eating. We’re planning a new advertising campaign called “You make me sick.” We also plan to go round schools, singling out fat students, pulling them to the front of the classroom and generally encouraging other students to laugh at them.
Surely politicians would never agree to what could be such an unpopular move?
That’s where you are wrong, James. Gordon Brown was sceptical when I first mentioned it to him – until I reminded him about the twelve billion pounds we collect from smoking taxes. Then and this was a pleasure to see, his eye gleamed with joy.
And future areas where people might be taxed?
It’s limitless! Bungy jumping will be taxed for sure, but potentially anything dangerous – walking on a cliff, driving a car, riding a bicycle – we certainly plan a tax on children using playgrounds! I see a world where tax inspectors prowl the streets, instantly fining people who do anything remotely dangerous.
Simon, thank you for your time.
You’re welcome. Would you like a pumpkin seed?
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We are drawing our electronic cigarette survey to a close and have published the 168 comments that were made during the running of the survey. E-Cigarette users have given their opinion on everything from improvements in lung function to price and to why the electronic cigarette has been or is about to be banned in so many countries.
We have decided to publish these comments early because it seems likely that the American Tobacco Bill which will lead to a defacto ban will become law imminently. Analysis of the results of the survey at the University of Alberta can not go ahead until it has been approved by the ethics committee, but we can at least share the opinions of e-smokers with those so determined to stamp on them.
To view the comments click here: Electronic Cigarette User Feedback.
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This poster, which we commissioned for a flyer, is the one now on the wall of our local pub!
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The American Tobacco Bill, which looks likely to become law imminently, has been my first experience with American politics.
The bill has left me totally shocked.
I’m shocked at the sheer extent of American corruption. I find it hard to believe that the American establishment will so smoothly lie and support a bill which will maintain the death rate of 400,000 smokers a year. That’s eight times the number of deaths suffered by America in the whole of the Vietnam war!
I can’t believe the audacity of a legislation which will happily remove safe alternatives to smoking that experts in tobacco harm reduction are convinced are at least 100 times safer than cigarettes. What about our rights to a safer alternative? Are you really suggesting you create a smuggling industry where people have to smuggle in products that are safer than legal products sold on the shelf in the US?
And with a few exceptions – such as the excellent Reuters article, Cool, Refreshing Legislation for Philip Morris – the media have been totally complicit in the lies being told by players such as Philip Morris, the American government and the American Public Health Groups.
It makes UK efforts at corruption – spending a few pounds of tax payers’ money on porn videos – seem pathetic in comparison.
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