Listen to this now.. "Third-hand smoke"

AdamM;2330547 said:

I sympathize with the fear that PVs would be banned outright. I can see something crazy like that happening, too. Cigarettes bring in billions in tax revenue, so there is room for a theory (maybe a conspiracy one hehe) that the government will demonize PVs in order to prevent a loss in tax revenue. Of course, if the government were the only opposition, then their problem could be resolved by simply taxing PVs and supplies at a premium.

The real threat, like everyone here likely knows, are groups that set out to demonize PVs to prevent a shift in market share from tobacco. I think the governments needs to believe one crucial thing, and that is that PVs are at the very least only equally as damaging as cigarettes (we all believe, correctly so I think, that they are not nearly so). If they have no grounds to ban PVs and supplies, then they can always tax them to make up for the shift.

In fact, here in Canada the argument could be made that PVs will reduce things like emphysema and cancers and so reduce the cost of health care in the next few decades. This could justify not taxing the crap out of PVs and supplies, but even if they did, someone pro-government like I am just considers that more tax revenue to get funneled back into society. Win-win-win.

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