{"id":12092,"date":"2019-03-21T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T18:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12092"},"modified":"2019-09-10T00:19:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T04:19:41","slug":"just-say-no-to-e-cig-lobbyists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12092","title":{"rendered":"Just Say No to E-Cig Lobbyists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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E-Cig Lobbyist David Pasch’s car<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Late last month, I received the following note from Raymond Glendening, the CEO of Scarlet Oak Strategies<\/a> lobbying firm:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you’re well.  I wanted to reach out for an idea for Seventh State.  As you likely know, the e-cig industry is currently being regulated by the FDA and there is looming regulations coming out of Annapolis (21 bill) and Baltimore City (flavor ban).<\/p>

We are reaching out to see if you have interest in interviewing the vaping industry’s national spokesperson, David Pasch, on one of your talk shows.<\/p>

We want to help balance the coverage, as there is considerable evidence that vaping products and e-cigarettes are among the most useful tools to help adult smokers\u2019 quit traditional cigarettes, as noted in this recent study by the New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>

This new tax would make it harder for adults to gain access to these life changing products which are not only 95% safer than combustible cigarettes, they have been proven nearly twice as effective as other nicotine replacement products – like patches and gum – at helping adults quit smoking.<\/p>

David Pasch, a spokesperson for Voices for Vaping, is available to further discuss the impact this tax would have, especially for adults seeking alternatives to smoking. David previously served in a senior communications role at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, as a Communications Director in the House of Representatives, and for various non-profit organizations active in the healthcare and public health space. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Maryland became one of the first states to ban smoking in indoor workplaces in the country under the leadership of the then-Gov. Parris Glendening<\/a>, Raymond’s father. While e-cigs may help smokers quit, they have also proven to be quite the gateway drug for teenagers<\/a>, who are more likely to take up smoking<\/a> if they used e-cigs. Of course, there is nothing healthy about e-cigs<\/a>, which contain nicotine and formaldehyde among other noxious chemicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump Cheerleader David Pasch is one heck of a choice of a representative for this industry, as <\/a>Politico<\/a><\/em> reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Pasch, who ran HHS’ digital communications until this month, regularly parked his car \u2014 with “FAKENWS” vanity license plates \u2014 outside agency headquarters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This Trump hack ought who went from HHS to advocating for the tobacco industrial complex ought to be a real hit on State Circle. Of course, it helps to have the son of a former Democratic governor paving the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E-Cig Lobbyist David Pasch’s car Late last month, I received the following note from Raymond Glendening, the CEO of Scarlet Oak Strategies lobbying firm: I hope you’re well.  I wanted to reach out for an idea for Seventh State.  As you likely know, the e-cig industry is currently being regulated by the FDA and there … Continue reading Just Say No to E-Cig Lobbyists<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,1277],"tags":[2275,2276],"class_list":["post-12092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lobbying","category-smoking","tag-david-pasch","tag-raymond-glendening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-392","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12183,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions\/12183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}