ASH American Electronic Cigarette Ban

ASH US recently announced the electronic cigarette faced an imminent ban in the US.

Fortunately, as far as I am aware, courts in the US make their own decisions, and are not told what to do by ASH.

Still, it continues to perplex me that anyone could oppose the electronic cigarette.

As numerous scientists have told us, the device is probably in the region of being 100 times safer than cigarettes.

Which is probably why many who oppose the cigarette either resort to junk science, or to unproven claims that it could prove attractive to children.

(Which always confuses me. Even assuming that children had a credit card and 100 dollars to buy a starter kit, would they prefer children start using the more addictive and far more dangerous cigarettes?)

It angers me that organisations, whether for financial or an absolute moralistic opposition to cigarettes, do this.

In making baseless attacks – not just on electronic cigarettes, but also on other far safer alternatives to smoking such as smokeless tobacco – they are playing with smokers’ lives.

Given the language of hate increasingly used – ASH has even suggested smokers could receive the death penalty for ‘murder’ by second hand smoke – perhaps that doesn’t weigh too heavily on their consciences.

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