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Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
We Need to Keep Educating...'Miss Information' Has Not Left the Building
I received a mail from a customer/friend and I would like to share it and also share the response...THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US:
Customer sent the following:
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. - Go just about anywhere in South Florida and “no smoking” signs pop up everywhere.
Florida banned smoking in most public places back in 2003, 40 years after Gwynne Chesher started lighting up."For a long time they were my dearest friend,” she tells the Contact 5 Investigators.
At her worst, Chesher was puffing a pack a day. She's tried everything to quit.
"I tried the gum, it gave me a stomach ache. I tried the patch, it made my heart beat fast and scared me. I tried chiantix and it gave me horrible insomnia, oh... acupuncture and hypnotism, that didn't do a thing!"
So when her son recently suggested electronic cigarettes, Gwynne signed up and started, what's widely known as, vaping.
Electronic cigarettes are battery-operated, have the look and feel of a traditional cigarette but without the smell, the smoke, and the harmful side effects according to its supporters.
Two weeks in and Gwynne was impressed, until her doctor weighed in.
"He was like no way, you can't use those,' ” she said.
Last year the American Lung Association issued a warning about e-cigarettes, advising consumers to stay away.
"We don't know what's in it. People are inhaling some vaporized compound into their lungs without really knowing what's in it," said Dr. Mike Feinstein with the American Lung Association in West Palm Beach.
"There's no information about whether they're safe or not and that's part of the problem," said Dr. Robert Green of the Palm Beach Cancer Institute.
Green says with no real data on e-cigarettes, the three year old tobacco alternative may actually be more harmful that traditional cigarettes.
"The doses of nicotine that you get could, conceivably, be higher than what you would get in a typical cigarette," he said.
“To make that claim is obviously ludicrous,” said Ray Story. Story, an e-cigarette distributor and CEO of the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association .
“There is really nothing in an e-cigarette that makes this product a dangerous alternative,” he said.
What's inside e-cigarettes has been a source of debate for just about as long as the product has been on the market. A few years ago, the FDA tested a small sample and found a number of toxic chemicals including one called like diethylene gylcol, the same ingredient used in antifreeze.
After the finding, Ray Story submitted a freedom on information request to obtain the sample, which contained the chemical. However, to date, the FDA has not supplied him with any data.
“I understand they found all kinds of stuff and at one point you could probably find whatever you wanted, but if the other side can't substantiate it, you have to wonder what the motives (are),” he said.
The findings forced the Food and Drug Administration to issue a nationwide health warning. The agency tried to ban the product but failed when Ray Story sued.
"I'm not telling anyone to start smoking or start vaping e-cigarettes. I'm just the one who decided this product should be here as a less harmful alternative and the FDA even says it's 1400 times less harmful."
Gwynne Chesher isn't convinced. So she's washing her hands of anything to do with electronic cigarettes
“I have no problem throwing them in the trash.”
The Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association says e-cigarettes contain five ingredients: water, nicotine, glycerine, propylene glycol (often used in soaps and lotions) and flavoring. All of these ingredients have been approved, individually, by the FDA.
The FDA announced it will begin to regulate e-cigarettes as a tobacco product bringing regulation to an otherwise unregulated market.
MY RESPONSE...AND HOPE THAT WE WILL ALL COME TOGETHER TO FIGHT MISS INFORMATION (who is she???)
I hope this mail finds you doing well and on the road to a speedy recovery. Thank you for sending me the information below regarding the Miss Information (Who is she?) about electronic cigarettes. It is unfortunate that these dated articles are out in print and the web from now until eternity. The article is from 2009 and we have thankfully "come a long way baby" in the research and development in e-cigarettes. We have to fight the battle of old and dated information out there as the FDA is protecting the tobacco and drug companies by trying to ban e-cigarettes, and launched a campaign of scare tactics to keep people from trying them. The research stated by the FDA was clearly a fraud in the methods utilized to make their conclusion. The report has been proven to be a farce by the scientific community and they have completed research NOT paid for by the Drug Companies.
There is a wealth of research and evidence of the success of e-cigarettes for committed smokers and a treasure chest full of scientific evidence of what is in the liquid. Testing and research has and is taking place from New Zealand to Norway and back again. The liquid mixture in electronic cigarette cartridge and bottle for filling has been proven to be more than 1000 times safer than one cigarette. The shame is.... the victim below, Gwynne Chesher is still going to suffer and struggle to quit instead of using a PROVEN method to stop using tobacco. 1400 times safer is what the FDA says...but then they also want to ban e-cigs based on their research of 18 cartridges that they cannot verify. The FDA has approved how many medications that are being recalled?
The FDA approved Chantix, which has been banned in France and several other European countries and still not here yet. More than 4500 deaths have been directly related to the use of Chantix as a 'stop smoking' method. Suicides, attempted suicides and homicides are resulting directly with the use of Chantix...oh that's right...the FDA (in bed with Pfizer) tested the drug on everyone BUT A SMOKER before they licensed it and shipped it worldwide to be used by a smoker to quit. It worked for 4500 dead people, they quit smoking.
If the FDA does not test a life raft, yet that raft has been tested the world over, should a drowning man not grab on to it? We need to remember the amount of money that is being pushed in to the FDA by the Pharmaceutical Companies that stand to lose Millions of dollars if e-cigs became accepted. NRT (gum, lozenges and patches ) have a 6% success rate and PNV (Personal Nicotine Vaporizers and e-cigarettes) have an 87% success rate. Screw the money they are losing, e-cigs are saving lives and the public has a right to know; not be misinformed to protect the tobacco and Pharm companies at the expense of the morbidity and mortality of cigarette smokers worldwide.
I really hope that you receive our newsletter and click the links on the left side of the page, we try to keep everyone informed with what is happening with e-cigarette research. Have you received our newsletters, if not please let me know as I understood you were active on our mailing list at MystMasters.com?
I write a blog for Mystmasters and have been for quite some time. I would like to invite you to check it out and read it often as I do put lots of very good information there. When you visit www.mystmasters.com click on the Blog Orange Icon on the lower left side of the page, or click here: http://mystmasters.blogspot.com/
I am very proud of myself as I have not smoked since March 15, 2010...check out the Quit Smoking Calculator on the blog...it is one of the articles and here is what it says about me today:
There is a wealth of research and evidence of the success of e-cigarettes for committed smokers and a treasure chest full of scientific evidence of what is in the liquid. Testing and research has and is taking place from New Zealand to Norway and back again. The liquid mixture in electronic cigarette cartridge and bottle for filling has been proven to be more than 1000 times safer than one cigarette. The shame is.... the victim below, Gwynne Chesher is still going to suffer and struggle to quit instead of using a PROVEN method to stop using tobacco. 1400 times safer is what the FDA says...but then they also want to ban e-cigs based on their research of 18 cartridges that they cannot verify. The FDA has approved how many medications that are being recalled?
The FDA approved Chantix, which has been banned in France and several other European countries and still not here yet. More than 4500 deaths have been directly related to the use of Chantix as a 'stop smoking' method. Suicides, attempted suicides and homicides are resulting directly with the use of Chantix...oh that's right...the FDA (in bed with Pfizer) tested the drug on everyone BUT A SMOKER before they licensed it and shipped it worldwide to be used by a smoker to quit. It worked for 4500 dead people, they quit smoking.
If the FDA does not test a life raft, yet that raft has been tested the world over, should a drowning man not grab on to it? We need to remember the amount of money that is being pushed in to the FDA by the Pharmaceutical Companies that stand to lose Millions of dollars if e-cigs became accepted. NRT (gum, lozenges and patches ) have a 6% success rate and PNV (Personal Nicotine Vaporizers and e-cigarettes) have an 87% success rate. Screw the money they are losing, e-cigs are saving lives and the public has a right to know; not be misinformed to protect the tobacco and Pharm companies at the expense of the morbidity and mortality of cigarette smokers worldwide.
I really hope that you receive our newsletter and click the links on the left side of the page, we try to keep everyone informed with what is happening with e-cigarette research. Have you received our newsletters, if not please let me know as I understood you were active on our mailing list at MystMasters.com?
I write a blog for Mystmasters and have been for quite some time. I would like to invite you to check it out and read it often as I do put lots of very good information there. When you visit www.mystmasters.com click on the Blog Orange Icon on the lower left side of the page, or click here: http://mystmasters.blogspot.com/
I am very proud of myself as I have not smoked since March 15, 2010...check out the Quit Smoking Calculator on the blog...it is one of the articles and here is what it says about me today:
You've been free of cigarettes for 531 days, 12 hours, 33 minutes & 31 seconds
You have not smoked 26,576 cigarettes since then, and you have saved a total of $7,972.86.
Really fun to calculate what e-cigarettes has done for me. Physically, it has saved my life. 1000 times less dangerous in each vape than one cigarette...I am totally convinced and wish I could talk to Gwynne Chesher in person. I hope she has Learned the Truth or at least read some of it on our Blogspot.
If you have any questions or need anything, please do not hesitate to call. I hope you watch for our September Newsletter coming out on the first of the month. If you are not receiving them, all our newsletters for this year are on our website under "IN THE MYST" you can click on it and it will open, lots of good articles and funny videos on the left side, just scroll down and click on them and they will open. Some pretty funny stuff and a great education in the articles.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery and great success with switching from tobacco, it will change your life.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Myst Money Rewards at Mystmasters.com
Be sure to sign in to your account when you go shopping and apply your Myst Money Rewards points to your next purchase. This adds up quickly and is worth another 5% discount on your purchases.
In some cases customers are creating new accounts with each purchase, this means their rewards points on other accounts would not apply to the new account making the current purchase.
Write down your account information so you will have it ready each time you visit www.Mystmasters.com
In some cases customers are creating new accounts with each purchase, this means their rewards points on other accounts would not apply to the new account making the current purchase.
Write down your account information so you will have it ready each time you visit www.Mystmasters.com
MystMasters.com - Quit Smoking Calculator
Thank you Darren Fauth for sharing this great little calculator with everyone...great tool!
The calculator tool shows I have NOT smoked more than 23,000 cigarettes since I started vaping and saved more than $5800.00. That is huge, not to mention saving my life!
The calculator tool shows I have NOT smoked more than 23,000 cigarettes since I started vaping and saved more than $5800.00. That is huge, not to mention saving my life!
MystMasters.com - Clearance Items
Be sure to check out the unbelievable savings available in our 'Clearance Items' section of www.mystmasters.com
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Miss Information…Who is She?
There is a lot of misinformation being presented by the Legacy Foundation (funded by tobacco companies) that says e-cigarettes are not effective. They continually misrepresent that e-cigarettes are being marketed towards youth (no cases have been noted), and they are encouraging e–cigarette users to return to smoking tobacco or use the proven to be less effective patches, lozenges or gum.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
MystMasters.com RED, WHITE AND BLUE CONTEST & the Winner is...
The Team at Mystmasters.com wishes to Congratulate Paul M. of Fort Lauderdale. You are the lucky winner of our Red, White and Blue Contest held throughout July.
Be sure to check our website regularly for promotions and contests that you could easily win.
Be sure to check our website regularly for promotions and contests that you could easily win.
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