BAN Electronic Cigarettes!!!

Electronic cigarettes are being lauded as the "life-saver" for cigarette smokers everywhere. They claim to be clean, save lives by helping people quit, and taste good too! Sounds like a miracle. Gues what? They aren't. These are a very dangerous product. They have not been evaluated by the FDA and so no one knows what is really in these things. There is an unregulated amount of nicotine in them, which could lead to MORE of an addiction and there are reports of chemicals in them that are used in such things as anti-freeze. Another huge problem is the availablity of electronic cigarettes to children! The FDA just banned flavored tobacco in September of 2009. But loo and behold all of a sudden flavored e-cigs suddenly come along to replace that niche in the market. Several stores have been caught selling e-cigs to minors and that is a sad thing. These products are just like the candy cigs, bubble gum cigars and chololate cigars that used to be marketed to youngsters. They are a gateway to a lifetime of addiction later in life. One of the hardest habits to break for smokers is the oral fixation, so now they are offering a product to foster this??!! This is not a smoking cessation product, it has not been evaluated by the FDA (who saves our lives from dangerous products), and they could lead our childen into a lifetime of addiction. Sign my petition if you agree electronic cigarettes need to be banned until they are regulated by the FDA and after they are, they need to be sold in the same manner as regular cigarettes and not at kiosks in malls.

Electronic cigarettes are being lauded as the "life-saver" for cigarette smokers everywhere. They claim to be clean, save lives by helping people quit, and taste good too! Sounds like a miracle. Gues what? They aren't. These are a very dangerous product. They have not been evaluated by the FDA and so no one knows what is really in these things. There is an unregulated amount of nicotine in them, which could lead to MORE of an addiction and there are reports of chemicals in them that are used in such things as anti-freeze. Another huge problem is the availablity of electronic cigarettes to children! The FDA just banned flavored tobacco in September of 2009. But loo and behold all of a sudden flavored e-cigs suddenly come along to replace that niche in the market. Several stores have been caught selling e-cigs to minors and that is a sad thing. These products are just like the candy cigs, bubble gum cigars and chololate cigars that used to be marketed to youngsters. They are a gateway to a lifetime of addiction later in life. One of the hardest habits to break for smokers is the oral fixation, so now they are offering a product to foster this??!! This is not a smoking cessation product, it has not been evaluated by the FDA (who saves our lives from dangerous products), and they could lead our childen into a lifetime of addiction. Sign my petition if you agree electronic cigarettes need to be banned until they are regulated by the FDA and after they are, they need to be sold in the same manner as regular cigarettes and not at kiosks in malls.