Outrageous Lies from New Hampshire
A guest post by Breathe New Hampshire
Electronic Cigarette companies have been caught out.
Little did we realise that companies like the one below are insidiously marketing their products towards children.
Okay, you can’t enter their websites unless you are over 18, but that’s probably an sneaky trick to make the device more attractive. After all children like things they can’t have, so any attempt to make them more difficult to obtain is really a marketing ploy aimed at children.
You can see from the pictures on this website how they are marketing the device to children.
Okay, not pictures of children, but pictures of adults using it at work is bound to increase the attraction to children.
And there are all the flavours that they sell on their website, like the fruit chill one below.
Oops, that’s the nicorette, not an electronic cigarette, a device with the same ingredients as the electronic cigarette. That’s okay because the manufacturers support stop smoking societies with huge funds, so let’s brush little problems like attraction to children and hair loss under the carpet. I can’t find any flavours apart from Menthol on this website at all, so I am going to quickly move on.
When you need to make a case, you need some statistics. Let’s look at a recent survey. E-Cigarettes as a Potential Harm Reduction Project found that 55% of users were aged 31-50, and none were aged below 18. Oops!
Never mind. When there is no evidence, turn to emotion, and find some children to coach honestly give their opinion.
“My friend bought an electronic cigarette because she thought it would help her quit smoking,” said Georgia Doing, a student at High Mowing School in Wilton. “She has been smoking more than ever. Despite the optimistic benefits that e-cigarettes advertise, the truth is they create or fuel an addiction to nicotine.”
There, you see. Undeniable proof that the electronic cigarette is marketed towards children.
By the way, you won’t see comments enabled on our blog post on New Hampshire. We know how e-cigarette users like to point out awkward little facts on the bottom of articles about electronic cigarettes, and we are not having it!
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Beautiful. I posted a link on ECF.
BUT BUT BUT… WE don’t like these, our supporters don’t like these, the folks who pay our rent say we have to tell people not to use these new fangled ecigs… Only problem is we can’t find any reason why people shouldn’t. They don’t have any of the side effects our supporters products do and we can’t find one single ecig user who says they’ve suffered any harm at all by using this product.
So what do you expect us to do?? WE have to turn to the “won’t someone save the children” defense. It’s all we’ve got!! Have some pity on a poor non profit who makes millions of dollars a year in it and pays our CEO hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If we can’t argue flavors are for kids, what do we use to attack ecigs??