Via Wacked Out Canada, we learn that big tobacco is losing it's share of the electronic nicotine delivery market.
Every time I post one of these types of posts, there are questions. In an attempt to kick the ball up-field, I'll just redirect you to Phil Busardo's TasteYourJuice.com site. It is a gold mine of information. Phil is also a prolific You Tuber. If you want to switch your nicotine delivery, you can do a lot worse than starting at his site and watching a few hours (days?) worth of reviews, tutorials and commentary.
Government also wants their hands on vapour revenues and that's not even including the bureaucratic Nazis who get off on telling people how to live their lives both wanting to treat e-cigs exactly like tobacco products. (P.S. I've never been a "real" or e-cig smoker/inhaler.)
Without a doubt the anti-smoking zealots will push for e-cigarettes to be treated exactly the same as tobacco. After all, from a distance, using an e-cigarette could easily be
mistaken for smoking a real cigarette and we can't have that, can we? That falls into the category of 4th hand smoke and is therefore taboo. Despite an overwhelming lack of evidence that e-cigarettes are harmful, petty politicians will fall over each other to enact restrictive legislation. Those politicians that really have no problem with e-cigarettes or smoking in general will be mercilessly brow-beaten and bullied by the tobacco Nazis. Until politicians acquire a certain degree of intestinal fortitude and tell the zealots to f*ck off and mind their own business, this type of bullying will only intensify and expand to other areas.
Here in Vermont, they are trying to tax them like tobacco, I guess, in an attempt to make it harder to quit smoking.
Moral panic is a dynamic in which some contrived threat to the social order - usually something taboo - causes a response that goes far beyond meeting the actual threat. A socio-political stampede, if you will.
The group dynamic contrived from such moments of social unity often yields startlingly extreme results. Policymakers tend to abandon even the "mean” of their personal convictions and then willingly adopt the most extreme position offered to them. This is much more than just opposition to e-cigarettes. It’s a blunt expansion of unfettered control.
Moral entrepreneurs claiming to speak on behalf of the public and in concert with the media further amplify the problem by creating "folk devils" (i.e., us vs. them) and then propose extreme measures as solutions to a perceived problem that must be dealt with before it is too late.
Read more here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/05/21/e-cigarettes-and-the-baptists-and-bootleggers-coalition-against-them/
The various levels of gov't that taxes cigs are addicted to the tax revenue, and have control issues.
I've noticed an increase as of late of fellow construction workers using electronic delivery of nicotine. I don't have a horse in this race aside from wanting less gov't in my life or anyone's life everywhere.
E-cigs and vaping. A great way to get your nicotine delivered with less health effects, and a way for us sinners to decrease the taxes paid to big nanny state. I get enough juice that will last a month and costs a little more then a pack of smokes. Best part is that I only pay HST on it rather than all those nasty sin taxes.
My way of giving the Wynne liberals a big fat finger.
Making my own juice costs about $80.00 per year- compared to $180.00 a month smoking tobacco. And I just love vaping in my office, on the golf course and at the firing range. Best move that I ever made.