The Last Straw: Anti-Tobacco Groups are Actively Promoting Smoking

Readers of the Rest of the Story may have noticed that I have not posted for a few days. This is not for lack of material. Lots is happening that deserves comment, and in the days to follow I will catch readers up on some important developments, including two more lawsuits filed against the FDA in an attempt to overturn its electronic cigarette deeming regulations.I have not been able to write because I have been too distraught. I have come to the realization that the anti-smoking movement - which I have been a part of for the past 31 years, is essentially dead. And even worse, the anti-smoking movement is now actively promoting smoking. This is extremely difficult for me to understand and to reconcile. And it is especially difficult to stomach given the irony that while the anti-smoking movement is promoting smoking, hundreds of for-profit companies are the ones who are actually fighting to make smoking obsolete. In contrast, anti-smoking groups are fighting to preserve smoking and make sure that it does not become obsolete.The last straw - the straw that broke the camel's back - is the anti-smoking movement's support of a complete ban on flavored e-liquids for use in vaping products, which follows its earlier vigorous opposition to a complete ban on flavors in toxic tobacco cigarettes.To be clear, the major anti-smoking groups - including the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and American Lung Association - opposed a comple...
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