IRVINE, Calif., April 23, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hop-on (Pink Sheets:HPNN) and USAcig, Inc. announced that they sent their plea to the State Senator of New York: Thomas K. Duane on banning electronic cigarettes. Who is really behind this legislation? The letter is as follows:
Re: Health Committee legislation to ban sales of "electronic cigarettes" (S7234 & A9529)
Who is really behind this legislation?
Dear Senator Duane:
USAcig, Inc. and its customers hereby request that you OPPOSE S7234 & A9529 because this would force electronic cigarette consumers (who quit smoking by switching to electric cigarette products and/or are trying to quit) to either go back to smoking tobacco cigarettes or purchase this product illegally. An even better alternative is to AMEND the legislation so it just bans Electronic Cigarettes from sales to minors, as is the law with all other tobacco products. The front and back of our packaging at USAcig states: "Not for sale to those under 18 years old." Also stated on our packaging is: "if you do smoke cigarettes, stop smoking."
We are working hard to prove that our products are a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes. I have family members who have passed away or have cancer from the deadly ingredients found in cigarettes. Why don't you just ban cigarettes from the market place? Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes. SMOKING KILLS.
One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit of smoking tobacco products. Even more interesting, half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
The mixture of tobacco and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels. This action and reaction can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. As a result, some smokers have even ended up having their limbs amputated.
Do you understand that tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer? A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year. To make matters worse, changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs. Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, resulting in your whole body, and especially your heart, working harder than it should. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs. Tragically, tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of other cancers, not just lung cancer.
Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers. Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers. Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels that can lead to heart attack. Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking. The combustion of tobacco kills, not nicotine!
In women, along with risks of heart disease and cancer, cigarette smoking during pregnancy actually increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has also been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome.
As mentioned earlier, these paragraphs can only begin to convey the harmful health effects of smoking tobacco cigarettes and its long-term side effects.
Secondhand smoke is both the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke that is exhaled by the smoker. Secondhand smoke is involuntarily inhaled by nonsmokers, can stay in the air after cigarettes have been put out, and can cause or worsen a wide range of illnesses, including cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease and asthma.
Source: California Environmental Protection Agency Web site
Secondhand smoke kills tens of thousands of Americans every year and causes serious life-threatening illnesses for thousands more.
Electronic cigarettes can eliminate second-hand smoke altogether. No one in your immediate surroundings will be affected by the water vapor and nicotine contents being exhaled. Electric cigarettes are a better alternative for everyone, even the environment.
Instead of protecting health (as some groups claim), S7234 & A9529 threatens public health by protecting the deadliest consumer product (cigarettes) from market competition by far less hazardous smoke-free alternatives. Our consumers and smokers have a human right to access and use far less hazardous tobacco alternatives to cigarettes.
In closing, please consider the following statements:
Nicotine in its natural form is a very healthy natural stimulant.
There are no scientific facts saying that Electronic Cigarettes are dangerous.
Why don't you ban ALL TOBACCO products? My aunt has cancer caused by tobacco products and is enduring Chemotherapy and Radiation treatments! My father in-law died of lung cancer! My family had no smoking alternatives like a hand-to-mouth smoking device vs. patch, nicotine gum; now there are: electric cigarettes.
Please reject or amend this outrageous legislation.
Sincerely,
Peter Michaels,
Chairman
About Hop-on, Inc.
Hop-on, Inc. (Pink Sheets:HPNN) offers multi-media services and has secured licensing agreements from essential patent holders for GSM, CDMA and WIFI technologies. Since its inception, known for developing the world's first disposable cell phone, Hop-on currently remains one of the few U.S.-based manufacturers of cellular technology. The Company also distributes The Electric Cigarette and The Electric Cigar.
About USAcig, Inc.
USAcig, Inc. is the only U.S.-based manufacturer making the actual nicotine cartridges/products in the U.S. The Electric Cigarette™ is an alternative to traditional tobacco products. It is a battery-powered device providing inhaled doses of nicotine by delivering vaporized water, propylene glycol, nicotine solution and other non-carcinogens. In addition to nicotine delivery, this vapor also provides a flavor and physical sensation similar to that of inhaled tobacco smoke, while no tobacco, smoke, or combustion is actually involved in its operation. USAcig, Inc. is a U.S.-based manufacturer of "The Electric Cigarette™" and "The Electric Cigar™". USAcig, Inc. manufactures its cartridges in the United States and the electronics are manufactured in China. USAcig, Inc. also has U.S.-based doctors on its board monitoring and supervising medical related issues or opportunities. For more information, visit www.USAcig.com
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