Posted on 05/18/2015 2:32:48 AM PDT by markomalley
Answer: Follow the money
No regime is more Puritan than a Progressive Tyranny. They hate happiness. They love control.
Answer: Tax revenue from tobacco sales.
Vaping is not taxed yet. But it will be. Studies apparently show that vaping will pass the tobacco industry sometime in the early 2020’s as the number one way people consume nicotine.
First it was e-cigs, and now everywhere I go I see at least half of the people in any group of smokers using a vape.
No smoke = no tar, no tar = better on body. Also the liquid used in vapes has about 100* less chemicals in it, then cigarettes do. If the government really cared they would be pushing vapes as a much less harmful alternative to smoking.
But it’s not about public health. It’s about career politician health and their big business tobacco kickbacks and tax revenue.
It’s also pretty frigging ironic too.
The government nanny types demonizing smokers, all the commercials demonizing smokers, all the laws demonizing smokers, then someone comes up with a way that smokers can “smoke”, with no offensive odor, no second hand danger(if there ever was such a thing), no ash or litter from butts.
So then ecigs roll around and they are all suddenly super duper against ecigs, but no one really has a good reason why. The closest argument is “well there is a cloud, and it looks like smoke so it’s smoking.”
Bitter losers telling people how to live their lives. Shutup already.
I love it when random strangers come up to me and criticize my lifestyle choices, I always tell them to go pound sand, the shocked look on peoples faces who think they know better is priceless.
Of all the substances in tobacco smoke that are harmful, nicotine itself is pretty far down the list. A delivery device that eliminates most of these substances should please any health nazi. I don’t smoke and I don’t like smoke where I breathe. E-cigarettes seem like a wonderful help with a difficult addiction.
This is the way the larger battle is won.
You’re not a bootlicking government nanny holier than though thug though. So your opinion doesn’t matter. /sarc off.
Really, the anti-smoking craze is all because people don’t like the smell. Okay, well don’t hang around smokers then is your business. But if you stand around them, and complain about the smell and preach to them about their health. That’s not your business and you can pound sand.
Because when people start vapeing they stop smoking!
It's a lot cheaper, tastes a whole lot better, and doesn't stink or turn you teeth brown.
RJR and friends hate it, and so do the tax leeches.
One more correctly and aptly make that same statement of Herr Rockefeller.
I am one of those that don’t care if people smoke cigs. I don’t care where, but I do have a suspecion that these Vape things are just ways pot smokers use to hide their smoking it in public venues.
Please don’t tell me they don’t make some concentrate stuff and put it in there. I know they do.
Yup. The 'why' is because it threatens the tobacco industry.
Conversely, I have no right to stop a smoker from pursuing his addiction in the open where it does not affect me and, equally, neither do I have the right to enlist the government to stop him.
I will even go so far as to say that compulsory healthcare paid in part by the taxpayers does not justify the government in restricting smoking because it adds to the cost of healthcare.
When the first “e-cig” was introduced, there was much medical hoopla about it being “the perfect drug delivery device”. Not a small compliment (?), it was developed at very high cost.
If it ends the gross practice of throwing burning trash as if the world were their ashtray, that’s a net positive.
Bookmark.
“Vape things are just ways pot smokers use to hide their smoking it in public venues.”
Yes, people use vapes for pot everywhere. Probably close to 50% of the big vapes you see are pot.
Nobody cares and not a single person was harmed in 10-20 years of vaping pot. Why is it such a big deal to you?
[I dont know what gets you to work in the morning except the color green of dollars.]
Of course, we all know that the Rockefellers have never pursued the ‘color green of dollars’.
Lefties only approve of panaceas that aren’t really panaceas (Obamacare) and persons/things that they can levy exorbitant taxes against.
When the market solves a problem that satisfies both smokers/vapers and non-smokers/vapers, the lefties go mad.
If nothing else, this otherwise simple issue proves the CDC are are hard-left as CSPI or other malcontents. But we probably knew that already.
Yup.
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