{"id":40193,"date":"2013-12-22T22:21:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T05:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/22\/e-coffin-nails.html"},"modified":"2014-01-07T13:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T20:47:56","slug":"e-coffin-nails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/22\/e-coffin-nails.html","title":{"rendered":"E-Coffin-Nails"},"content":{"rendered":"
I am not a smoking fan. I actually dislike tobacco smoking quite a bit.<\/p>\n

But I've never quite understood the hostility to e-cigarattes. \u00a0Yeah, nicotine is addictive … but, so what? \u00a0Yeah, it seems<\/i> like normal fire-involving tobacco smoking …\u00a0but, again, so what?<\/p>\n

I'm just not seeing the harm, esp. compared to the legal restrictions that various municipalities seem to want to put onto the devices.<\/p>\n

I have no desire to puff on an e-cigarette. But that doesn't mean I'm automatically in favor of treating them the same as real cigarettes.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Government’s War on E-Cigarettes<\/a>
\n It’s here, folks. The battle royale between the regulators and the people over e-cigarettes is upon us. It started a few years ago, calmly, but with New York City banning vaping in public places, the knives are about to come out.\n <\/p>\n

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I am not a smoking fan. I actually dislike tobacco smoking quite a bit. But I've never quite understood the hostility to e-cigarattes. \u00a0Yeah, nicotine is addictive … but, so what? \u00a0Yeah, it seems like normal fire-involving tobacco smoking …\u00a0but, again, so what? I'm just not seeing the harm, esp. compared to the legal restrictions … Continue reading “E-Coffin-Nails”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,70,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-health-science","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3090,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/11\/wolves_foxes_an.html","url_meta":{"origin":40193,"position":0},"title":"Wolves, foxes and henhouses","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Aug-02 1:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, follow me here. 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