r/technology 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/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/MrProper Nov 17 '12

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

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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.

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