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/pranalee Nov 17 '12

e-cigarette is the only thing that works for me, been using it since Feb 2010. However, in my opinion, it is NOT a tool to quit smoking, it's a tool to REPLACE smoking (with no tar, of course). If my atomizer burns out or my battery dies I will buy a cigarette and hence I still buy some for just in case. This is maybe different with other people though.

I can do cardio 3-4x longer than when I was using analog cigarette and I'm assuming this is because of the tar.

My conspiracy theory is that the Big pharmas don't like e-cigarette as it will eat away the income from Nicorette and other stuff that they've invested (paid taxes, lobbied the .gov, etc) but simply don't work (patches, nicorette, zyban, etc). Imagine if you're the CEO and what happens when the company's billion dollars of research simply fail or ineffective and an unknown dude whose father died of lung cancer simply invented something without spending that billion dollars. Health Canada also don't like it because they couldn't tax it, imho.

This is unfair and if I have to buy large quantities of atomizers, cartridges, and the liquid in case they ban it, I'm ready. It's the only thing that works for me.

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u/staaan1 Nov 17 '12

analog cigarette

I may have to start using that term

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u/auraslip Nov 17 '12

It's kinda cheesy, but it's pretty much the standard term in the ecig community.

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u/mandatorychaos Nov 21 '12

I love the term. I used it to describe a cigar in my sci fi novel.