June 12, 2019 Most of us remember the classic School House Rock, “I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill and I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill…” but maybe we need a new version that talks about how a bill is killed with a thousand paper cuts painfully sliced into vapid, ineffective nothingness by industry goodwashing yet still SOUNDS like a reasonable regulatory response? Such … [Read more...]
Juul Fools and Kill Bills: Deconstructing Health Legislation
Filed Under: Media Literacy Tagged With: at risk teens, big tobacco tricks, CDC tobacco harm, e-cigs, flavored tobacco, generation vape, GenZ, health literacy, Jerry Hill SB 38, Juul, Juuling, pack of lies, Synar amendment, teens tobacco, Tobacco 21, tobacco cessation, Truth campaign, vaping, vaping epidemic, youth health
Juul’s Bait and Switch Demographics Blitz TV With Goodwashing
May 27, 2019 Hey young people, gather round…You might want to tell your parents they’re being played by the current TV ad blitz of goodwashing by vaping giant Juul claiming to be all about smoking cessation when YOU were the ‘hard target’ from the very start. When I first heard about Juul years ago, I'd hoped their intent and target market was very similar to the exact campaign … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Nutrition & Wellness Tagged With: adolescent health, e-cig legislation, e-cigs, flavor bans, Juul, Juul ad campaign, Juuling, public health vaping, teen vaping, vaping epidemic, vaping harms