Know Your Enemy!
Vapers need to become more aware of the forces and the people who are out to destroy vaping the same way they've fought for the last 40 years to destroy smoking. Antismokers have enormous amounts of cash to spend (500 million to 900 million dollars EVERY YEAR just from the USA's Master Settlement Agreement -- plus unknown millions more from the Big Charities that use the heartstring pulls of "choking children" to raise their donations and from the NicoGummyPatcyPeople who are simply and purely in it for the money.)
The tricks that they're pulling out to fight vapers are quite often the same tricks, albeit in new clothes, they've used against smokers -- exaggerations about small traces of chemicals and the threats to non-vapers/smokers, tailored studies designed to give the "right" results to funders, lies about what studies actually show, the use of government bodies to impose their will while threatening legislators with "We'll say you're against the children!" hints for the next round of elections if they don't cooperate.
There is no reason in the world for anything beyond simple oversight of materials and simple, non-overly-restrictive standards. Go beyond the press releases and read and analyse the studies themselves to see what's in them. Read this brief analysis of several of the Antivapers' flagship studies to see how they distort science for their goals: http://www.tobakkonacht.com/PDF/TNSite-SlabVIII-OfVaporsAndVapers.pdf and never, ever, give them an unjustified inch: they will simply take ANY concession that is made and IMMEDIATELY use it as the launchpad for a new campaign.
Michael J. McFadden
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
