Anti-Smoking Zealot Claims Ecigarettes Are ‘Against Our Culture.’
Activist believes ecigarettes should fall under the same rules as normal tobacco.
Anti-tobacco activist Dr. Peter Shields claims ecigarettes glorify the act of smoking and are “against our culture.”
Shields, one of the key drivers in convincing Ohio State University to ban smoking on campus in 2014, made the comments in a Monday interview with student daily newspaper The Lantern.
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“The idea was, let’s send a message to everybody that tobacco use is not okay and it should be denormalized,” says Shields.
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