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Re:Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them by nyolfen on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:03PM (#11640368)
seconding your anecdote. I use an ecig myself, and I live next to a college campus -- I'd probably say I see about five people a day using them. I have never seen someone using one of the cig-like disposable types.
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Re:Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them by dragonwriter on Friday May 06, 2016 @03:00PM (#11645971)
> I use an ecig myself, and I live next to a college campus

And college campuses (and the areas around them) are totally a representative cross-section of the general; population on all things, including mechanisms of tobacco consumption, right?

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Re:Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them by mistermann on Friday May 06, 2016 @05:10PM (#11646749)
Do you have reason to think they wouldn't be representative?

Your tone makes it sound like you're kind of hostile to the very idea, do you have some personal attachment to the matter?

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Re:Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them by dragonwriter on Friday May 06, 2016 @05:28PM (#11646837)
> Do you have reason to think they wouldn't be representative?

The fact that they are demonstrably not representative of the general population by age, income, education, or, really, just about any other variable that has been studied makes it very unlikely that they'd be, except coincidentally, representative as far as purchasing patterns for any particular good for which a variety of options exists (unless its a good purchases nearly exclusively by college students, but that's clearly not the case here.)

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