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TheCatt wrote:I dunno, I used the patch to quit successfully at least 3 times.

Senator Jay Rockefeller (D- West Virginia) ... “I’m ashamed of you. I don’t know how you go to sleep at night. I don’t know what gets you to work in the morning except the color green of dollars. You are what is wrong with this country.”

Some Senators referred to a website sponsored by blu’s parent company, Lorillard, stating that flavors like “cherry” and “vanilla” make children vulnerable to electronic cigarettes.

Smirnoff Fluffed Marshmallow. Marshmallow-flavored vodka, 30% ABV.
Smirnoff Iced Cake. Cake-flavored vodka, 30% ABV.
Smirnoff Kissed Caramel. Caramel-flavored vodka, 30% ABV.
Smirnoff Whipped Cream. Whipped cream-flavored vodka, 30% ABV.
Smirnoff Root Beer Float. Root beer float-flavored vodka, 30% ABV.
Smirnoff Cinna-Sugar Twist cinnamon-infused vodka.

New Jersey could become the only state in the country to prevent anyone under the age of 21 from purchasing tobacco products under a measure passed Monday by the state Senate.

Malcolm wrote:

TheCatt wrote:I dunno, I used the patch to quit successfully at least 3 times.

I'm still trying to figure why the e-ciggies get such backlash given they're cutting down on a fuckload of burned organic matter you'd otherwise be inhaling.

Electronic cigarettes emit chromium — which isn't in regular cigarettes — and four times the amount of nickel as regular cigarettes. The researchers also found other toxic metals in the e-cigarette smoke, like lead and zinc, but the amounts were smaller than those in regular cigarettes.

There were, however, 10 times fewer harmful particles and almost no cancer-causing organic compounds in secondhand e-cigarette smoke, because electronic cigarettes don't burn organic material like traditional cigarettes do.

He said the metals probably come from electronic cigarettes' cartridges, meaning that better production could reduce them going forward.

"I worry that the tremendous progress that we've made over the last almost two decades in smoking could be reversed on us by the introduction of e-cigarettes," said University of Michigan professor Lloyd Johnston, who leads the annual Monitoring the Future survey of more than 41,000 students.

The CDC reported last week that 10 states permit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.

"The key is to avoid another generation being addicted to nicotine," Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said in an interview.

But Anderson says that vapor still contains dangerous chemicals.

The study funded by the National Cancer Institute found that nearly 40 percent of young people who started using e-cigarettes moved on to regular cigarettes within a year.

TPRJones wrote:Most of the shortcomings of ecigs are changing pretty quickly. The state of the art is rapidly evolving.

However, the ads don't increase the overall appeal to kids of either smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes or using e-cigarettes regularly, the researchers reported.

"We know that flavors appeal to kids, and that is what the e-cigarette industry is banking on," Sward said. "Kids like sweet flavors. That is why there are sugar-sweetened cereals. These flavors have always appealed to a kid's palate."

That's what mature drinkers want, more cake in their fucking vodka.

"It doesn't get much more blatant," Douglas said. "It's quite clearly targeted at kids."

These must be marketed to middle aged housewives as an alternative to red wine.

The main results:

A total of 3,837 students reported some vaping experience (34%, 32%, and 21% of 12th, 10th, and eighth graders, respectively);

Between 65% and 66% of students in each grade reported vaping "just flavoring" the last time they vaped; and

Of the students who had used a vape product in the past month (16% of 12th graders, 14% of 10th graders, and 8% of eighth graders), 59% to 63% reported vaping "just flavoring" at last use.

"Vaping of nicotine came in a distant second place," the researchers wrote. "Among respondents who had ever vaped, about 20% of 12th- and 10th-grade students and 13% of eighth-grade students reported vaping nicotine at last use."