A letter I posted to "Flavors hook kids" website.
I swore off ever posting anything anymore since I always attract too many jerks, but I just had to log in to send up a Carbon Copy of my letter to Flavors Hook Kids .org.
It will certainly be totally ignored I am sure but that is really not my problem -- at least I tried!
I think it applies to VPRB and many others:
I just want to say that I feel you always act too strongly on your impulses.
I first used an N-joy 501 in 2009 while I was with my sister who smokes Newports. I was also smoking them myself.
Cigarette smoking is a strange thing that really takes your choice away while at the same time making you feel worse and worse all the time.
It pretty much feels like you have taken a poison and the only antidote is to take more of the poison.
E-Cigarettes (with nicotine) seem to be the true antidote.
They are not at all as good as they were in 2009...
that is, if I smoked a cigarette back then in 2009 it did nothing for me. For about 3 or 4 months you are fully convinced that the E-cig is "more addicting" but "so what??" it's also better...
Well after a long while on the E-cig you would see that it was actually the old-fashioned "analog" as they call it that was actually so addicting.
I have everything I need including e-juice and batteries but I only use coffee at this time. It also helped me stop spending money on Marijuana -- I have bought no Marijuana at all this year.
I assert that someone can indeed place nicotine or heroin or some other addictant into your precious skittles and M&Ms. On the other hand I see nothing at all "insidious" or "wrong" at all in allowing children to get their "candy fix" on clouds of pink and blue e-juice which will also have tons of nutrients added and will cause no diabetes or tooth decay.
Yes the cookie cake and candy industry are much more vast and rich, but I do not see your point at all.
Someone who has smoked only nicotine E-cigarettes , whether for the anti-depressant effect (quite strong) or the flavors are not very likely to take up "real" cigarette smoking.
They are very powerful (about 2 a day is the most one should ever want to do) but then again they have little reason to switch...
though, as I alluded to before, RJR and others have been working on them since I found them in 2009.
Their goal?
Keep people buying packs of cigarettes.
While I was still smoking e-cigarettes I had friends sort of "force me" to smoke a cigarette and it did make me really high and also had some bad withdrawal symptoms....a big contrast to how I forced myself to smoke 2 Newports (months apart) In 2009 and simply felt disgusted with it and felt no reason at all to continue. One of the differences: I am sure a small bottle of that 2009 E-juice would probably kill someone if they drank it. Also it would be pretty necessary for one to taper off and use less and less whereas today's huge tank E-cigs are much more likely to quit "cold turkey". There would be days where I was actually feeling pretty bad and was pulling on my E-cig (around 2 or 3 PM) feeling like I failed myself for not taking my e-cig in the morning like I should have.
The same is true for the old types of cigarettes....whoever said you can't taper off is really crazy -- probably like your camp simply reacting without knowing what they are saying. It is VERY IMPORTANT to taper down to 2 cigarettes or less a day and then, from there, the "cold turkey" that is indeed required is quite manageable.
However with the benefit of E-cigarettes it can be much more simple and quite painless. Quitting the cigarettes can leave you feeling "off" for literally decades....of course you are not that likely to start up but you do feel like you need a cigarette for a while. With the E-cigarette you can feel completely "cured" and it is a miracle.
An interesting point is that about 80% of the life-saving effect of an E-cigarette can be provided by e-juice without any nicotine at all.
Flavors hook kids but the e-cigarette is a lesser evil by far than candy and soda. And there is not much reason really for an "acceleration hooks kids" campaign to shut down the theme parks in my opinion. Instead use your chance to replace "now and laters" with something that's actually healthful and inoculates children against using hard drugs like tobacco and other smoked substances.
When, soon enough, people get their PTSD or ADD medicine via E-cigarettes it will appear that they have been hooked since they will need their "fix" to simply concentrate and finish their "work".... but the difference is in the person's opinion of how they are being treated. With "chew" or "smoke" they are actually being abused for a capitalist's gain whereas the e-cigs are far less of a problem and also "generate" less revenues. It's not only Mars and Nabisco it's also the (animal product) insulin corporation that are on your side.
