Why quit?

[quirky]

Visit any garden department of any DIY and you will find shelves and shelves of poison. Head over to the plumbing department and you can find straight lye and other corrosives. All with the power to kill.

We can allow justification of banning any thing we desire - or justify its existence in the face of logic. Its not just over the counter meds, its thousands of products we live with every single day. There is no real challenge to finding everyday objects that have the potential to kill, instantaneously or slowly and hideously.

Electrical outlets, ungrounded wiring, the aforementioned poisons, guns, glass, plastic bags, drapery cords, every small part that can lodge in the throat....

There is NO difference. It is only in perception. We have learned how to safely handle these things and in doing so we have minimized the dangers in our minds just as we have minimized the dangers in our homes But the logic that one potential killer is worse than another is simply flawed. Dead is dead no matter what caused the death. Dead is forever.

[TropicalBob]

Suffice it to say I think our government WILL see a difference when the subject of concentrated nicotine delivered through an electronic device comes into focus. It will happen all over the world as governments direct attention to this new form of satisfying addiction. My hope is that it's not banned. My gut says to get ready for regulations galore.

[leaford]

Regulations I don't mind; they'd even be reassuring. It'd be nice to have more than faith to go on that our liquid isn't contanimated, our mouthpieces don't have lead paint, etc. The part I'm afraid of are taxes. Cigarettes would be cheap, too, if it weren't for the penalizing taxes. And they are deliberatly punishing us for our habit.

[Machina]

Originally Posted by quirky

Visit any garden department of any DIY and you will find shelves and shelves of poison. Head over to the plumbing department and you can find straight lye and other corrosives. All with the power to kill.

We can allow justification of banning any thing we desire - or justify its existence in the face of logic. Its not just over the counter meds, its thousands of products we live with every single day. There is no real challenge to finding everyday objects that have the potential to kill, instantaneously or slowly and hideously.

Electrical outlets, ungrounded wiring, the aforementioned poisons, guns, glass, plastic bags, drapery cords, every small part that can lodge in the throat....

There is NO difference. It is only in perception. We have learned how to safely handle these things and in doing so we have minimized the dangers in our minds just as we have minimized the dangers in our homes But the logic that one potential killer is worse than another is simply flawed. Dead is dead no matter what caused the death. Dead is forever.

There is a difference! This is why you can't buy pure nicotine right next to the garden isle! You saying various chemicals have no difference in danger shows some ignorance on your part. And comparing my examples (Nicotine in PPG, which readily goes through skin and clenbuterol powder) to a plastic bag or wiring (!?) is an even better example of it.

I dunno, I don't care. The government WILL step in at some point over nicotine liquid, I just thought it would be interesting to see how far the go to demonize it.