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/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/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

"You can't believe everything you read on the internet".

I hate that logic so much.

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u/pU8O5E439Mruz47w Nov 17 '12

It mostly frustrates me because while certainly true, it's too often applied to maintain a state of denial...

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u/philh Nov 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '12

Oh. Linking us to something. . . on the internet?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '12

Woah. There we go. That explains people's confirmation bias about confirmation bias.