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ASH Action on Smoking and Health

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a non-profit legal action anti smoking organization based in the United States. Having been in action for over 40 years, ASH has many accomplishments including the ban on smoking in airplanes and has been a key player in most smoking ban legislation in the United States and elsewhere.

On the ASH website their mission is described as:

Its principal activity is to serve as the legal action arm of the nonsmoking community, bringing or joining in legal actions concerning smoking, and insuring that the voice of the nonsmoker is heard. It also serves as an advocate of the nonsmokers' rights movement.

Recently ASH, under the direction of public interest law professor John Banzhaf, has brought electronic cigarettes into it's sights as well. ASH is responsible for threatening legal action against organizations such as PayPal, Amazon and Facebook prompting those companies to change their policys regarding electronic cigarette advertising on their networks and has filed complaints with the FDA and states attorney generals in protest of the sale of electronic cigarettes.

They have also brought a class action lawsuit against Smoking Everywhere claiming decpetive advertising, unfair competition and unjust enrichment and asking for monetary and even criminal sactions be brought against the company.

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My husband has just been diagnosed with Extensive Small Cell lung Cancer.  Here is his story: This is a copy I sent to the FDA

Cc:
"Millie Denham" <Millienky@yahoo.com>
 
My husband a avid smoker of regular cigarettes smoked for 50 years, 10 months ago he changed to the e-cigarette, since there was suppose to be no nicotine or chemicals in it
he went to the doctor yearly for a chest xray of his lungs because he had sleep apnea, his lungs were clear when he started the e-cigarette.  He has just been diagnosed with this awful disease: Listed below. we later found out all the poision toxic chemicals and nichotine
in the e-cigarette.  How in good faith of mind can you support this horrible cigarette, no regulations,  My husband has a short life span before this he was a health 68 year old man
the story is below:

 
MY husband has just about a month ago been diagnosed with Extensive Small Cell Lung Cancer, he went through many test, he began in January 2011 having a nonproductive caugh as well as weight loss, his appetite has been diminished a bit.  He has not had hemoptysis but has had some midsternal chest pain radiating around the ribcage bilaterally.  In addition, he has had some mild dysphagia and reportedly an upper GI recently did reveal evidence of some degree of exteinsic compression.  In any case a chest x-ray had revealed some abnormalities and CT Chest was ordered on May 23, This revealed  evidence of extensive mediastinal adenopathy as well as a left lower lobe pleura-based mass and left apical lesion.  These were confirmed on the PET/CT and found to be hypermetabolic.  In addition, there was evidence of skeletal metastatis desease.  The patient underwent a non - diagnostic bronchoscopy on May 31,  CT-guided needle biopsy of a lung leison was preformed yesterday morning and is tentatively positive for small cell carcinoma.  Assessment:  The 68 year old gentleman has evidence of extensive small cell lung cancer.  He was made aware of the overall relatively poor prognosis.  Specifically, he was told that this represents an incurable malignancy.  All treatment would be given with palliative intent.
 
Plan:  To that end,  treatment with chemotherapy consisting of Carboplatin and Etoposide.  He was made aware of the shedule of treatment as well as potential for benefits and toxicities. He woices understanding and wishes to proceed.   Started
Chemo. on June 22, 2011.
 
PATIENT:  Bob Denham
Had been a cigarette smoker for 50 years.  He was trying to quit and stopped the traditional cigarettes and went on the e-cigarette approximately 9 months ago.
His doctor said he had had this cancer around  6 to 8 months,   We have records where he ordered the items off the internet, Totally Wicked and another e-cigarette, mostly Totally Wicked.    Bob believes his problems came about by these e-cigarettes since he had great looking lungs before going on the e-cigarettes.  He saw advertising that said
this would help him quit the cigarettes with no harm.
 
Should you be interested in talking to me Millie and Bob Denham futher about this, please email me at:
 
or call cell phone at 606-872-6025
or call cell phone at 606-872-6024 Bobs
 
We are staying in our motorhome in Owensboro KY and driving into Evansville Indiana
for his chemo treatments.  We live in Somerset, KY.
 
I hope and pray you do something about the e-cigarette before you have a lot of deaths of wonderful people on your hands.  
 
I would like to be included in a class action lawsuit of e-cigarette, can you help me or do you know of a great Lawyer who can.
 
Sincerely,
Millie Denham
 
 

OH Millie, i'm so sorry to


OH Millie, i'm so sorry to hear of your husbands troubles. My best friend's father died last month from small cell lung cancer. I hope everything works out for you with Chemo. Our prayers are with you all.

However, I do know a bit about this disease and unfortunately the primary cause of it is cigarette smoking. You, yourself, admit the doctors say he's had this since about the time he started ecigs. Could it be that the 50 years of smoking finally caught up with him? Unfortunately at a time when he was actively seeking to change his smoking habit, but I"m sorry Millie, I just don't think ecigs had anything to do with his cancer, it was the 50 years of smoking.

I do wish you the best of luck with everything and I'm so sad to hear your story. I just don't see how ecigs would cause small cell cancer in less than a month, even if they were identical to cigarettes, which they are not, it would take many years to develop this type of cancer.

Best of luck to you both.

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