| JANUARY 13, 2012
Dear Mayor Deke and Council:
1. You would like them to exclude electronic cigarette use from the
ordinance.
I would like you to exclude electronic cigarette use from the ordinance
proposed. People who use them including myself, have
had great improvements in sense of smell, taste and the reduction of
smoking related ills. This is steam not smoke! It contains no levels of
carcinogens such as are found in real burning tobacco products. There are
studies that point to nicotine itself and alone as a beneficial drug, that
shows promising results in aiding the memory issues associated with
Alzheimer's disease.
2. Tell your story on how switching to an e-cigarette or smokeless tobacco
has changed your life. You may want to tell of an experience with vaping
in public, if you have one that would display the difference between using
e-cigarettes and smoking.
Since I have started using an electronic cigarette my clothing no longer
stinks of cigarettes (tobacco burning cigarettes), my eye sight has
improved. My ability to concentrate has improved. I am no longer wheezing
and coughing as I did while smoking. I am able to go for days without
having a real cigarette. In public, I attract questions about the
e-cigarettes and people ask for more information, because they love their
spouses, their parents and others that they know are ill from the effects
of real cigarette consumption. I feel good knowing that the steam that
emits from the electronic cigarette has been proven not to harm any
passive breathers. I am relieved of the SHAME SHAME SHAME that smoking a
known cancer causing disease has had on my life. Nicotine is said to be
more addictive than heroin. That does not mean you throw the babies out
with the bath water! There are studies finding that nicotine is
beneficial. Doctors can prescribe a nicotine patch, nicotine gum and
inhalers. E-cigarettes are far more pleasing to smokers than the above,
which have no long term provable record on helping smokers quit smoking or
nicotine use.
3. Explain how electronic cigarette use is easy to distinguish from actual
smoking. Although some e-cigarettes resemble real cigarettes, many do not.
It is easy to tell when someone lights a cigarette, from the smell of
smoke. E-cigarette vapor is practically odorless, and generally any
detectable odor is not unpleasant and smells nothing like smoke.
The vaper from e-cigarettes is almost 100% water. The trace amounts of
propylene glycol or food grade vegetable glycerin that are mixed into the
nicotine juice then heated by a battery powered atomizer, producing, what
feels like a throat hit and looks like a cloud of smoke are 360 deg. from
what a real carcinogenic cigarette has from burning leaf tobaccos grown
with chemicals and cured with chemicals that are known to cause cancer and
are still legal. Banning real smoking is beneficial, but e-cigarettes are
a miracle and should be supported and available, not banned. The diseases
that smoking causes should be the reason for the ban on smoking not vaping.
It is unfair to group everyone that is addicted to nicotine into one very
misjudged group, because they are dependent on nicotine while
holding and puffing on what works. (e-cigarettes for millions of smokers
works!) When a smoker uses an e-cigarette which millions have already
switched to, a alternative from smoking which is unsafe in every way! Do
not stand in the way of progress. In 150 past years, this planet has
evolved to what it is now thanks to progress, from horse and buggy to
space exploration. Do not be so quick to judge a person for their hand to
mouth behavior. Only in the United States are people killing themselves
with obesity (a hand to mouth behavior and alcoholism)and lack of
exercise, causing serious health issues. E-cigarettes have replaced
smoking for millions and thanks to the hand to mouth behaviors, people who
use e-cigarettes do not eat themselves into a super sized heart attack,
diabetes and other hand to mouth related ills.
SMOKING IS LEGAL, LACK OF EXERCISE IS LEGAL AND POOR DIETS AND OVER
EATING IS LEGAL! GET A CLUE as millions of us have.
PLEASE INSTEAD OF PUSHING FORWARD IGNORANCE AND FEAR PROPAGANDA, TAKE THE
OPPORTUNITY TO
RID THE PLANET OF ONE OF THE WORST PLAGUES THAT HAVE EVER EXISTED, THE
ENHALING OF BURNING TOBACCO LEAVES. KNOWN BY ALL AS SMOKING!
JOIN MILLIONS OF SMOKERS WHO HAVE CHOSEN A SATISFYING AND SAFER
ALTERNATIVE
http://www.casaa.org/
Please do not promulgate false information, unscientific prejudice and
fear. There are
volumes of studies which contain good information on why millions of
smokers are finally finding a safer alternative to smoking! |
