I found this forum earlier this evening and have been reading many of the
threads with great interest, including this one.
I've never had an inclination to visit Thailand (just never fancied going) and doubt if I ever will.
However, I would point out that nicotine itself is addictive but otherwise harmless. If anything, as it's a mild relaxant I would think it would have a beneficial effect. I will stand corrected if I'm wrong in this. With ordinary ciggies, it is the tar and carbon-monoxide (among other chemicals) that are damaging to the person smoking. I do not believe for one minute in the so-called SHS. There is not one documented case, anywhere in the world of anyone dying because of SHS. The theory on SHS is nothing more than abolute junk science, perpetrated by the greedy pharmaceuticals to push their expensive anti-smoking products and seized upon by people who don't like smoking for no other reason that they don't like the smell of smoke, or the
thought of someone smoking
Since the smoking ban came in (I'm in the UK), I have not been in a pub except twice. Once was after a funeral and we stayed long enough to have the statutory tea and sandwiches then left, and the second time was at our works Christmas party. Most of us left shortly after the meal and went home. In our workplace, 98% of the workforce are smokers. Thanks to the ban, we have to abide by minority rule
Apart from that, and twice going to a cafe, my husband and I have not had an evening out. He is a non-smoker and hates the ban too. The smoking ban has wrecked peoples' social lives and also so many peoples' livelihoods. One of my favourite cafes, which did lovely home cooked food, closed down within a month of the ban. It was taken over by another cafe who put in sofas, low tables etc. but the last time I looked in, it was empty. Before the ban, that was a cafe where you often had to wait for an available table.
Our government and its sidekicks the medical profession and the pharmaceuticals don't give a hoot how it affects people so long as they're ramming their dogma down peoples' throats and exercising control over peoples' lives.
In the UK we're living in George Orwell's 1984 fourteen years later.
So, I bought an e-cig. By the look of it after reading this forum, it's a 901. I'm impressed with it, so much so, I've got another one ordered for my son (he's 22 so no panic on age
) and another one for me - a different brand this time so I can compare.
I am also active with an organisation called Freedom2Choose. We are trying very, very hard to get the smoking ban overturned, or at least some concessions made. Under the current Labour government, that is probably mission impossible but we'll never give up trying.
If the government tries to ban e-cigs too, then it will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are victimising smokers (well, we know they are already) and no other section of the community. At the recent local elections, one of the MPs was on the radio (I think it might have been Harriet Harman but I'm not sure. It was on the Nicky Campbell show). One of the Labour activists from the North of England e-mailed into the show and listed why people had turned against Labour. One of the main reasons was that people, both smokers and non-smokers (antis are a completely seperate species) hated the smoking ban. Nu Labour's smoking ban turned round and bit them fairly and squarely on the a**e
Here is the link for Freedom2Choose. I will understand if the moderators remove the link but the more people who take action against the smoking ban, be it
tobacco or e-cigs, the better.
http://www.freedom2choose.org
There is a forum there for anyone who wants to join.
In the meantime, I'm enjoying my new e-cig