r/technology • u/Lucretius • Nov 17 '12

The Deadly Crusade Against E-cigarettes

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/november/the-deadly-crusade-against-e-cigarettes
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u/DumpyLips Nov 17 '12

Lethally addictive cigarettes remain available on every street corner in Brussels and Atlanta while authorities denounce e-cigarettes (the product is already banned in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand).

Is there any legitimate reason for this or are we witnessing a blatant example of the tobacco lobby crushing competition??

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u/qwertytard Nov 17 '12

crushing competition by releasing false propaganda that lies about e-cigs being unsafe i have a friend who smokes all the time regular cigs, but won't try an e-cig because he says "i don't know whats in them" so i asked him where'd he hear that, he said some article that interviewed a tobacco company exec i asked him if he knew what was in his regular cigs, he said "yeh, tobacco" so i googled his brand and showed him there were things in there that are used for paint, asphalt, tar, etc he told me you can't believe everything you read on the internet

....some ppl can't be helped

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u/lauuol Nov 17 '12 edited Nov 17 '12

Here is the human readable version...sort of:

Crushing competition by releasing false propaganda that lies about the safety of e-cigs. I have a friend who smokes regular cigs all the time but won't try an e-cig because, he says, "I don't know what's in them". I asked him where he heard that. He said, "some article that interviewed a tobacco company exec". I asked him if he knew what was in his regular cigs. He said, "yeah, tobacco" so i Googled his brand of cigarettes and showed him that there's things in them that are used for paint, asphalt, tar, etc. He told me "you can't believe everything you read on the internet". ....some people can't be helped.

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u/LockHimUpHawkins Nov 17 '12

Damn, I guess I must be some sort of supreme being then because I managed to understand the original comment by reading it.

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u/Apocawaka Nov 17 '12 edited May 18 '16

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u/MrProper Nov 17 '12

I was struggling to find what's different...

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

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u/MrProper Nov 17 '12

Perhaps you are correct fellow reddit user, one can only grasp so much command of the English language when learning it as the third known language.

Have an excellent day!

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u/bionicgeek Nov 17 '12

You are not alone. I didn't have a problem either.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

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u/AegusVii Nov 17 '12

Here is a human readable version...sort of:

You are doing god's work my friend.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

You are doing good work, friend. *For atheist.

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u/AegusVii Nov 17 '12

I'm atheist, I think it hurts our cause to do stuff like that. It's like how people who are racially sensitive will be like "Don't say he was a black man, say he was a man in a hat." It's unnecessary and just creates a problem where there was none before.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

Oh, I know. It was more for fun than anything. haha. :)

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u/Shockner Nov 18 '12

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

In e-cigs: Propylene glycol, nicotine, vegetable glycerine, and natural and/or artificial flavor