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DC Launches Anti-Smoking Campaign A Week Before Taxing Vape Shops Out Of Existence
The Daily Caller ^
| September 24, 2015
| Josh Fatzick
Posted on 09/25/2015 8:08:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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Actually an excerpt. Check the Daily Caller for the full article.
Nanny State PING!
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:09:50 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:14:59 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“Even marijuana” eh? I bet those dope dealers will certainly collect that increased tax and keep, like, meticulous records, yo!/s;)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Liberals. If they don’t like it, you can’t do it.
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:16:14 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Tagline pending.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ahh, yes, must tax out of existence those things that stop people from smoking cigarettes, because it looks evil.
Man, I love liberals, they are consistent in how moronic they are.
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:18:30 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’m waiting for the day when someone figures out how to sue these legislative bodies for discriminatory actions.
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:24:09 PM PDT
by
Ophiucus
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They lose tax money if people quit smoking cigarettes — $2.50 per pack — so more taxes are paid than on vape stuff at 5.75% sales tax.
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:27:20 PM PDT
by
JJ_Folderol
(Just my opinion and only worth what you paid for it.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It’s gonna make a lot of smugglers rich, real and vape loads.
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:27:47 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(It's true.)
To: kingu
A 50+ year chain smoker, I got my Vape May 22, 2014. After two days my cough was gone. After three my nose opened up for the first time in years. Haven’t even been tempted for the past year and third. And I don’t stink up the house. No downside to my decision.
The people should still be able to mail order their Vape supplies. Or pick up a couple of months supplies the next time they’re in a free state.
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:32:22 PM PDT
by
Boojum
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’ll make sure I smoke more that week for all those people who can’t!
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:38:31 PM PDT
by
HarleyLady27
(I have such happy days, and hope you do to!)
To: Boojum
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posted on
09/25/2015 8:48:21 PM PDT
by
Boojum
To: Boojum
Same here. Smoked two packs a day for 30 years. My doctor told me it was time to quit. Within a week I stopped hacking up gray phlegm, my sense of taste came back, and with two weeks, I could smell the reek of stale smoke in hallway if a smoker walked through five minutes prior. I started vaping and never looked back. Haven't had the urge to pick one up in three years. My doctor said he'd had more patients quit by switching over to e-cigs than all the Chantix he ever prescribed. I lived in DC for 15 years. This is Marion Barry country. Those asshats are notorious for taking the coward's way out of everything to keep the sheep in line and regulating or banning anything that might be of positive net benefit. People will just speak with their feet and spend their money in Silver Spring or Arlington or somewhere, and the shopkeepers there will love them for it.
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posted on
09/25/2015 9:20:09 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
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To: Viking2002
Quit smoking last November, switched to vaping after doing both for about six months. Never looked back. No more pleghm, no more feeling crappy after smoking too much on a stressful day, no more butts, no more ashtrays, no stink. I can smell smokers too - doesn’t bother me but I know what non-smokers smell now. Went to a doc appt a few weeks ago and my oxygen level was 98. Amazing. I feel so much better. It’s such an improvement. All these pluses and control freaks are STILL miserable jerks.
I switched to vaping with a bunch of people I work with. We all quit cigarettes. What the heck is wrong with that?
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posted on
09/25/2015 10:05:56 PM PDT
by
bluejean
(The lunatics are running the asylum)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
09/25/2015 10:06:59 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA)
To: Rome2000
“Zimbabwe on the Potomac”
The lawmakers writing this crap need to be thrown INTO the Potomac!
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
DC Launches Anti-Smoking Campaign A Week Before Taxing Vape Shops Out Of ExistenceTen square miles...adjacent States...
What idiots! Shooting themselves in the foot.
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posted on
09/25/2015 10:21:48 PM PDT
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I cannot understand why people are so anti-vaping for nicotine. To me, it’s about equivalent to switching to patches or gum, and they’re not all apesh*t crazy about that. Show me a study that says limited amounts of nicotine delivered cleanly are any worse to a body than caffeine is.
To: bluejean
There's NOTHING wrong with it. My O2 last week was 98%, too. Now, don't get me wrong - I'm no rabid anti-smoking zealot now that I've quit. We both know how good it is to light one up after a good meal. Or good sex. Hell, even after a bad meal or bad sex (Is there such a thing?). LOL! Man, do I miss that part. But you brought up a good point: now that I no longer smoke, I can smell it clinging to the clothes and hair of someone who does, and I think to myself, "My God, I walked through life for thirty years smelling like THAT to other people?!?" I actually stopped and asked myself how many women rejected me simply because I
stunk, not because I wasn't a nice guy. And how many jobs I may have been rejected for because of the smell of my clothes at the interview, not because of my resume. Whether we want to admit it or not, it is a factor. Live and learn.
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posted on
09/25/2015 10:33:47 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
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To: bluejean
I do have to ask, do you feel like you’re getting as much nicotine as you were with cigarettes?
I am 46, started smoking when I was 19 because I worked in kitchens and smokers got breaks but non-smokers didn’t. I found I liked the stimulant effect, but after my dad, a 40+ year Pall Mall unfiltered smoker had to have half of one of his lungs removed due to cancer, and my father-in-law died of esophageal cancer after years of constant cigar smoking, and then I my wife got pregnant and I didn’t want a kid growing up seeing me smoking like I did with my dad, I quit. I miss it, and just loved pipe smoking, but I like to inhale and really feel it, not just taste it. I tried vaping when it became popular here last year, and at first it was great, but within about two months, I just wasn’t getting anything from it. I wasn’t craving, but it was like my body adapted and vape or not vaping, there wasn’t the alert/stimulant/little bit of buzz to it. I always got that when smoking pipes or cigarettes. I tried pretty high nicotine content juice, but adapted to that, too. Also that made me dehydrated as hell.
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