[ClearCase_guy]

'Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.' -- Mencken

No regime is more Puritan than a Progressive Tyranny. They hate happiness. They love control.

[PghBaldy]

Yep. That was my first thought too.

[GOPJ]

There is also the question of money. The rise of e-cigarettes means lower profits for the pharmaceutical companies that make nicotine gum, patches, and anti-smoking medications, and less revenue for states that are addicted to cigarette taxes. For tobacco companies, each e-cigarette purchased means fewer cigarettes sold. It’s not surprising, then, that the profit-seekers have aligned with the prohibitionists to promote heavy-handed and costly FDA regulation that would suppress e-cigarette use and overwhelm the budgets of small, upstart vaping companies. Economist Bruce Yandle calls such collaboration between odd bedfellows the “bootleggers and Baptists” model of regulation...

And profit...