| state |
pre-dev |
| class |
lingo |
| category |
diversion |
| motivation |
framing |
| science aversion |
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Abstinence-only TC seems to have coaxed around a few common
deflections in their argument patterns.
| phrase |
meaning / motivation |
| evidence-based |
Dismissal of unwelcome scientific findings. It's an euphemisim for evidence selectionism. Sometimes employed just as regulatory retreat. |
| nicotine addiction |
Trivialization of tobacco addiction. Origin is both the 1980s scientific understanding of dependence, and the tobacco industry. (Originally used as extenuation by BigT, only later more widely adopted (~2015??) by AO-TC.) |
| tobacco products |
Scope affirmation, and tobacco-industry conflation. |
| tobacco tactic |
Often valid suspicions, but suspicions nonetheless. More frequently used as deflectoid for discourse aversion though. |
| alternative tobacco industry |
Denounciation/rationalization, t-i conflation. |
| industry involvement |
Originated as legimitimate shielding against policy undermining. Now devolved into groupthink protection, by disavowing any public discourse. |
| child-friendly |
Child-friendly framing for flavour-fallacy. |
| ENDS |
Abstracted classfier and applicability limit implicator. Commonly used as derogatory term. |
| associated with |
see EVALI; often used as causation insinuator |
| dual use |
Transitional use is substitutive, not additive. Usually temporary, based on wrong setups (devices or ATFs) more than inherent functional defect, more probable prolonged by harm exaggerations. |
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