Posted on 09/25/2015 8:08:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
D.C. Council Member Yvette Alexander announced Tuesday that the week of Sept. 20, 2015, would forever be known as “DC Calls It Quits Week.”
The announcement comes just one week before the city plans to implement a 67 percent tax on e-cigarettes, effectively taxing vape shops out of existence.
Alexander brought a gaggle of people to the front of the council chambers to make the announcement and to encourage “everyone in the District of Columbia to put down those cigarettes.”
"Put down those tobacco product today, and hopefully this can be the beginning of a new beginning for anyone who smokes cigarettes, cigars, pipes, even marijuana,” she declared while being congratulated by fellow council members and community activists.
Actually an excerpt. Check the Daily Caller for the full article.
Nanny State PING!
Sucks to be a smoker.
“Even marijuana” eh? I bet those dope dealers will certainly collect that increased tax and keep, like, meticulous records, yo!/s;)
Liberals. If they don’t like it, you can’t do it.
Man, I love liberals, they are consistent in how moronic they are.
I’m waiting for the day when someone figures out how to sue these legislative bodies for discriminatory actions.
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.
It’s gonna make a lot of smugglers rich, real and vape loads.
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.
I’ll make sure I smoke more that week for all those people who can’t!
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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?
Zimbabwe on the Potomac
“Zimbabwe on the Potomac”
The lawmakers writing this crap need to be thrown INTO the Potomac!
Ten square miles...adjacent States...
What idiots! Shooting themselves in the foot.
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.
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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