Just because they dont contain tobacco, dont be fooled into believing e-cigarettes are safe. Manufacturers of these devices still have not subjected them to independent, peer-reviewed, scientific examination.
A known neurotoxin, nicotine is also one of the most highly addictive substances available for public consumption. More lethal than strychnine, just 60 milligrams of nicotine on the tongue about three dropsis enough to kill a 160 pound person. In contrast: The lethal dose for strychnine is 75 mg, for diamondback rattlesnake venom its 100 mg, youd need to ingest 200 mg of arsenic to do somebody in, and Cyanide's lethal dose is 500 mg.
The same can be said for other legal stimulants such as caffine, over the counter drugs such as tylonol, asprin, and cough medicines.
Then there are regular grocery items such as mouthwash, lysol disinfetant cleaners, glues, paint, gasoline, paint thinners, and a long long list of other things that, when abused, or concentrated, can be lethal.
Does this mean the government should tax the crap out of vertually everything?
Of course not. And this goes for E cigarettes as well. Nicotine is already approved for human consumption by the government health department. We can buy all the cigarettes we want, as long as we pay the rediculous taxes on them. Along with the nicotine they contain, they contain about 4000 other toxins the government appoves fit for human consuption. In fact a lot of these toxins are added, they don't occure naturally in the tobacco plant.
As for the other ingredient that produces the vapor from electronic vaporizers, is food grade glycerol, which is also appoved by the government for human consumption in a wide variety of ways, including the inhaling of vaors produced from it, such as vicks cold remedies used in vaporizers, medical applications which use glicerol as the base to disperse medicines in resperators.
There is NOTHING in an e cigarette vaporizor that requires ANY government review and approval. it is already done.
Since there is NO tobbacco product all, the government has nothing to regulate, nothing that is of any health concern or risk for which the nanny state feels it must place additional tax on for our own good (yeah right, as if taxes on cigarettes were EVER for our own good).
The government must not be allowed to regulate or tax in any way the sale and use of e cigarette type vaporizers.
We must if neccessary, organize and hire legal assistance to argue these points, and prevent the government from illegally taxing products to protect revenues from other unfairly (and Illegally in my opinion) taxed addictive substances, namely tobbacco and alcohol.
Where will it end if we don't? What's next? Coffee? Too much coffee is shown to be a health risk. Shouldn't the government be taxing that more for our own good?
At least e cigarette type vaporizors have no known health risks, and offer a safe, alternative way for people to recieve their needed doses of nicotine which the government has allowed them to become addicted to.
I have never heard of a single person who bought a e cigarette who was a non- smoker. Every single person I know has bought a vaporizer to get away from the unhealthy nicotine delivery system supported and promoted by the government. So the arguement that people will become addicted to nicotine using this product is rediculous.
Even if a non-smoker did become a user, there are plenty of better, more flavorfull e-liquids that would be preferable to any that contained nicotine. They wouldn't want nor like the liquids containing nicotine and taste like a crappy cigarette. Only people addicted to the nicotine and habit of cigarette smoking want and need something than can relieve the nicotine habit, and help them break the habits associated with cigarette smoking.
If this government were truely concerned about our health, and wanted to see that percentage of the cigarette smoking population that simply cannot kick the addiction and habits of cigarette smoking, they would welcome whole heartedly this tool that has shown the greastest hope yet in enabling the cigarette addict to overcome their addiction and finally, after so many failed attempts and wasted money on useless smoking ceasation aids the government promotes.
The government response to this product however, has revealed the governments true adgenda, tax revenue through controlled addictive substances.They don't want to see people quit smoking tobacco.
So now the government is stalling for time, time it needs to figure out how to add another already approved for human consumption product, nicotine to the sin tax list, which they thought they had securred through the anti tobacco campaigns and bogus health risk claims through which they justified unfair unreasonable and rediculously high taxation.
The problem is, nicotine does not pose any health risks. It is freely available now and inhaled. The nicotine poisoning concerns they are now trying desperately to raise simply do not exist, and are no more likely to with the use of e liquids containing nicotine, as they are with the purchace of a package of cigarettes which contains many times over a lethal dose of nicotine.
Therefore, this must be fought openly in the courts if the government is foolish enough to pursue this course.
It is easily proved that e cigarrette users have drastically reduced or even quit altogether cigarette smoking, and as a result reduced significantly their health risks, and cost to the health care system resulting from their cigarette habits. They have improved their health, finally stopped that persistant cigarette cough. Many have also eliminated their nicotine addiction as well, and now "vape" non- nicotine containing e liquids, which poses no risk to their health whatsoever. The only damage e cigarettes cause is damage to reckless and wastefull government spending, and the threat to the anti-smoking empire it has built up and enriched political pals with, all at our expence and risk to our health.
