Smokers Commit Child Abuse and Murder Children says ASH
Opponents of electronic cigarette view smokers as child abusers and child killers. So why are they encouraging cigarettes at the expense of electronic cigarettes?
Not content with the farce of the FDA’s announcement on electronic cigarettes (see Dr Whelan’s revealing article on the announcement in the Washington Times), recent media twisting of facts and downright lies about the electronic cigarette (according to The Peninsula electronic cigarettes contain 40 times the amount of nicotine that regular cigarettes do, and are far more harmful than cigarettes), Ash has resorted to bullying tactics.
This time they are threatening PayPal.
Their press release on the subject warns that Paypal that could force prosecution for “aiding and abetting” the selling of the product.
What About Real Cigarettes?
Just to put things into context, electronic cigarettes have yet to cause a single health incident in several years of use.
Every analysis of electronic cigarettes, including the one made by the FDA, shows that the electronic cigarette contains less harmful ingredients than regular cigarettes.*
Yet we know for sure that real cigarettes will kill over 400,000 Americans every year. So why isn’t Ash threatening payment providers who sell lethal tobacco cigarettes?
Perhaps the difference is that the cigarettes we know for sure will kill hundreds of thousands are now approved by the FDA, whereas the electronic cigarettes which experts have repeatedly argued are far safer than cigarettes are not!
I know which I’d rather sell!
Bullies
The fact of the matter is that, far from having smokers best interests at heart, Ash are extremist bullies.
Prior to their campaign against the electronic cigarette Ash were trying to deny smokers custody to their children.
According to lawyer John Banzhaf III, smoking is a form of child abuse, and as a result smokers should not be allowed access to their children.
‘In at least two cases, parents lost custody when a “child abuse,” “child neglect,” or similar complaint was filed by an outsider,’ the organisation gloats in the press release.
Elsewhere Ash provides advice on how to separate children from smoking parents – see Ash’s custody and smoking information page.
Smokers Murder Thousands of Children
In another press release John Banzhaf claimed:
“Smokers pollute the air the public and their children are forced to breathe with toxic carcinogenic fumes, inflate taxes and the costs of health insurance, start the blazes which are the major cause of residential fire deaths, kill thousands of their own children every year, and are a major contributor to litter on beaches, streets, and elsewhere. Isn’t it time we stopped tolerating if not encouraging this outrageous behavior and harm to the public…”
Encouraging Cigarette Use
Now we have a device which every analysis and many experts suggest is far safer than cigarettes.
The device delivers none of the 1000’s of chemicals and hardly any of the 40 odd carcinogens that exist in electronic cigarette.*
Studies have proved that it can reduce nicotine cravings and word of mouth suggests that it can help smokers to quit, at least in the short term.
Yet Ash want none of it.
Cigarettes are Better than E-Cigarettes. Oh, and By the Way Only Nicotine Causes Heart Attacks
By attacking the electronic cigarette they are essentially arguing that cigarettes are better than electronic cigarettes.
They are even putting forward arguments that smoking is not as bad as we thought it was in their attack on the electronic cigarette, arguing:
“Current smokers at elevated risk for cardiovascular problems may switch to e-cigarettes, thinking that they are far safer. But actually any decrease in health risk relates to cancer (since e-cigarettes reportedly contain far fewer carcinogens), and not to cardiovascular problems (as to which nicotine is the main culprit).”
Specialist in preventative medicine Professor Michael Siegel disagrees:
“This is demonstrably false. While nicotine is one chemical in tobacco smoke that is thought to contribute to the atherogenic properties of cigarette smoking, it is not the only one. Carbon monoxide, for example, is thought to contribute to cardiovascular disease. In addition, the particulate components of tobacco smoke almost certainly lead to an increase in cardiovascular disease risk. Moreover, smoking causes changes in cholesterol which increase heart disease risk but are almost certainly not attributable to the presence of nicotine.”
Why are ASH lying?
Given that Ash has been so extreme in bullying smokers in the past, why are they now encouraging cigarette use at the expense of electronic cigarettes?
Could it be that if a device which experts such as Dr Joel Nitzkin estimate have between 1% and 1/10th of 1 % the percent of the danger of real cigarettes replace the cigarettes, their will be no need for organisations such as ASH?
*Although trace elements of carcinogens have been found in one cartridge (more were found when tests were carried out at unusually high temperatures), experts on the subject – routinely ignored by ASH – have pointed out that the real problem with analogs (real cigarettes) is the combustion – which does not occur in the electronic cigarette.
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