Common sense is prevailing in the media war over Electronic Cigarettes. Slate has published a great rundown on the coverage in the mainstream. Talking about the current import ban on electronic cigarettes, Slate asks this (h/t OsborneInk): Governments seem to be buying this view. The FDA has officially barred importation of e-cigarettes. “These appear to […]
Smoking Everywhere, one of the nation’s largest distributors of electronic cigarettes, has filed for an injunction against the FDA for stopping their shipments from coming in over seas. The suit claims (and rightfully so) that the FDA is overstepping their bounds. The FDA is attempting to classify Electronic Cigarettes as a smoking cessation/nicotine replacement device. […]
There has been talk about this for weeks now, but it looks more and more like the FTC is going to put some regulations in that could effect bloggers: In the new proposed rules, The Federal Trade Commission also addressed advertising in new media (Web 2.0). Essentially, if an advertiser pays a blogger to write […]
A very good story out of Fort Wayne where a woman, who has smoked for 30 years, has been able to kick the habit by using an e-cigarette: Hall smoked Winston Ultra Lights for 30 years. For a while, she tried to cut down on expenses by rolling her own, sitting down for an hour […]
For close to a quarter of a century I have been a smoker. I average about a pack and a half a day. During this time I have tried everything. The patches didn’t do a thing. The gum and lozenges never worked. I even tried Chantix, the “stop smoking” pill twice and had no luck. […]
Now that we have a Democrat taking over 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and Democrats controlling Congress, can we look at a serious budget cut? I’m of course talking about the bullshit “war on drugs”. So far this year our governments (federal and state) have spent close to $44 billion on this never ending war. It’s like […]
This is change, we need. Actually it isn’t as much change as it is undoing the damage of the Bush years: The Food and Drug Administration, bedeviled by a salmonella outbreak and tainted medicine from China, is likely to monitor imports and fresh produce more closely under an Obama administration. With President Bush no longer […]
And since he didn’t do that then the Palestinians decided to do it themselves. Tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt from Gaza Wednesday after masked gunmen used land mines to blast down a seven-mile barrier dividing the border town of Rafah. Men and women walked unhindered or rode in donkey carts over the […]
Something our nation seems to forget is where it came from. While watching Good Night and Good Luck the other night I was interested in how Edward R. Murrow constantly held his Kent cigarette in his hand while doing his broadcast. Since that occurred 20 years before my time I missed it when it actually […]