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Misleading E-Cigarette Marketing Examined
Associated Content, CO
E-cigarette sellers would like you to think so, and even those who are looking at the science behind the electric cigarette might be swayed to agree. Are they overlooking a fatal flaw inherent to e-cigarettes? An e-cigarette looks like a pen and ...


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optmaxx

Man we smokers can not catch a break. They do not want you to smoke an E-cig because we do not know the long term risks. So we should keep smoking real cigs, but we are not aloud to smoke around people who do not smoke. Some time I feel like people do crack are treated better than us.

xMarlboroMan

Who ever said nicotine addiction is fun? What a load of crap. I am not going around to non-smokers say, "Hey try this. Nicotine is great!" We (smokers) already understand that nicotine is not safe, nor is it easy to stop using, but if I have a choice between cancer causing cigarettes, and less harmful ecigs, I am choosing the later. Weening myself off nicotine, if I so choose, is inherently more possible with ecigs since we hold the choice about how much we intake. Unlike conventional cigarettes where we have to take what they give us.

Edit: Further reading of this article states that the marketing is gear towards kids/young adults simply because there are chocolate and fruit flavored juices.... uh, has this reporter ever tasted an chocolate ecig, or any ecig for that matter... it still has that tobacco taste no matter how you slice it. If a non-smoker was to pick up an ecig and take a puff, they most certainly would be put off by the taste. It doesn't taste like a freakin' Hershey bar for christ sake. I for one can say that my first puff on a cigarette was not a pleasant one.... and I certainly didn't say, oh that was yummy... I believe my reaction was, this tastes like crap, why would anyone want to do this to themselves? The same can be said for alcohol. The taste is acquired. Peer pressure, the lack of family support and wanting to fit in is the real reasons why I started smoking in the first place. So before this reporter starts blaspheming e-smoking, maybe they need to start criticizing the parents for not educating/supporting their children about drugs and alcohol. And you know what, maybe nicotine will become more recreational like caffeine. They can't seem to put enough caffeine in products. (eg, caffeinated soap!!!). What about all these energy drinks that contain Taurine, Guarana, Ginseng, etc.? The FDA doesn't regulate them, nor are there any federal studies proving how safe they are. Put that in your e-pipe and smoke it Sylvia Cochran!

optmaxx

The biggest problem with these reporters and people against E-cigs are they never smoked. they have no idea what it is like to try and stop smoking. what a smoker goes through when they have not had a cig, or how the withdraw make you feel like hurting someone. they think because it is new kids are going to think it is cool, but i have yet to have someone come up to me and say that thing is the shit. I need to get one. the last response I got was what the fuck is that was told I looked like a nut. As far as taste goes. when I first got mine I was using cherry. I was at a family party and everyone who smoked tried it and said it tasted good. then mother who is not a smoker tried it. She took one puff started choking and said it tasted like shit. So the reporters and everyone else need to stop commenting on something they never tried.

Hoodala

I agree optmaxx but i would bet if you had analogs there your non-smoking mother wouldn't have gone within a hundred miles of them let alone taken a drag. I think e-cigs do have the potential to breed a new class of user, but so do a bunch of things like hookah for example. There will always be people who will try e cigs but never touch a cigarette just for the nicotine because they believe they are safer than tobacco.

I don't know if you ave read this testing report but if i were a non smoker i might be convinced enough to give them a try based on this: http://healthnz.co.nz/RuyanCartridgeReport21-Oct-08.pdf

As an e-cig user i love them and never want them to go away. I don't know that they are any better, but they are better for me.

Hoodala

That story really is a piece of crap and the writer Sylvia Cochran is a holier than thou non smoker for sure and she really should have done a little research before putting out such garbage.

This is a great article about nicotine that she should have read: Science News / Nicotine's New Appeal

optmaxx

My point was that sure non-smokers will try them but it is not going to make them start smoking because of the way it taste.

Hoodala

I agree taste wouldn't be the only reason to start, thinking back and for me it is more like way way back to when i was a teenager and started smoking I hated cigarettes because of growing up in a family of smokers. If these were available then i would most definitely have tried these first. I don't think the number of new smokers would rise because of them but it is possible. Some people may only not start because of the health risk involved with cigarettes.

I have 2 daughters in high school and they both know a lot of kids who smoke. When i first started selling them they both told me that they would tell their smoking friends about them. I insisted that they not tell anyone under 18. I just don't want that on my conscience.

For me they taste a heck of a lot better than tobacco and no lingering odors on hands and clothes. So maybe not taste alone but it could be one factor.