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Thanks to Moonbeat for posting this on ECF…

This guy’s hilarious, and right: What the FDA does not want you to know from their e-cig test

You may have already heard more than enough from me about e-cigs, but here I go again. The FDA put out a press release the other day, saying that carcinogens were found in one e-cig cartridge they tested — one out of only eighteen cartridges tested, and those from only two out of the hundreds if not thousands of companies selling e-cigs. Carcinogens are bad news. But the good news they didn’t exactly highlight is that the carcinogens were only detectable to the level of parts-per-billion, whereas those same carcinogens are measured in “analog” cigs in parts per million. So there may be a quality control issue with one company — a company known to e-cig users for hawking one of the highest-priced and worst-performing brands on the market — but even so, that “tainted” brand is still about a thousand times safer than a normal cigarette, right? Why didn’t they compare e-cigs to regular cigs? And why are they only testing products from the same two companies that are currently suing them in federal court? Things that make you go “hmmmm.”

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• My dad loves Sarah Palin & said during the election she’d make a *super* President if it came down to that. Not an opinion I share, but OK… #

• Obama has signed the FDA tobacco-regulation bill. If you’re a smoker, the bullseye is squarely on you, as usual. :-( http://bit.ly/FURh2 #

• I just woke up. Is he President now? He is? Oh thank God. This is the best day ever. #

• Where is the Bush shoe-throwing Flash game? #

• Illegal fireworks over Albany CA! The people are screaming WOOOO. #

• Trying to get local results, inputting my zipcode w/out thinking, I put 60625. Ha ha. Yeah I’m pretty homesick at the moment, but happy. :-) #

• This is the greatest day in history I can think of in my lifetime. President Obama, our President for reals. I totally cried, did you cry? #

• God DAMN I wish I was in Grant Park right now. #

• Voted YES to Obama, “hell no” to idiotic Prop 8. Can’t wait for tonight! #

• I’m so excited and really a little scared about tomorrow. Scared that we’re overconfident, that we’ll assume victory. Please don’t. Go vote. #

• Just to get this said: I’m voting for Barack Obama for President, and I urge everyone to get out there and vote too (for whomever you want). #

…shitting his adult diapers at this very moment

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