I started to respond to each and every thread but it turns out they are all basically same. Just anti-government drivel with no real thought about what I put in my original post. In my op I spoke of science and technology not government. The closest thing I said to government was the health department comment. Is the health department bad also? If you think it is your fooling yourself. The health dept has protected many, many consumer throughout the years. Without them your gambling every time you walk into an unknown restaurant for dinner. People on this planet come from all walks of life, some with much lower sanitary standards than your used to. Your used to those standards because of the health dept. Eat where you want but I prefer eating from the restaurant with a five start rating from them.
In your posts some of you we're hung up on the fact that the hobbyists and mom and pop operations moved this industry in a direction the big corporations could or did not. I don't argue with that, it's a fact. Some of the greatest inventions on the planet come from the basement inventor or the little guy with a big idea. That's going to happen no matter what. You can't stop it. Whoever controls the vaping industry are going to get some of there biggest ideas from the little guy. History has proven that time and time again. You think Alexander Gram Bell was a big corporation?
Lots of you mentioned wal-mart and big retail making quality go down and prices go up. That's true if that's how you choose to spend your money. I will spend mine on BMW and Mercedes. I will drink my grey goose vodka instead of Smirnoff. I will buy e juice that is scientifically designed to be the best it can be. As with all things invented there will be a growth period and a learning curve. The price will go up at first. More and more company's will get a quality product on the shelves to compete and the prices will go down. This is the natural progression. It will happen if the FDA doesn't squash the whole industry first. I'm sure there is lots of money just waiting to see where the chips will fall in court. I live in Loudon county, in Northern Virginia. Tons of trendy, yuppy, thirty something, college educated, government employees that smoke. I'm 20 minutes from Washington DC and I don't have a brick and mortar vape store within an hour and a half of me. Why? Because its a risky investment right now. To many chips in the air. When those chips fall, if they fall correctly, lots of money will be dropped. I'm sure I will see vape stores opening all over. Once upon a time in this country we made moonshine in our back yards. Some was good and some killed you. The problem was unless you knew the moonshiner personally you were taking a gamble every time you bought some. It could be fire water from the gods or make you go blind, you just didn't know. Lots of people got hurt. [ENTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY] Now look at the liquor industry. It's thriving. Every bottle you pull off the shelf is the same and perfect. We know all the facts. No more hearsay or rumors about what works and what doesn't. How many of you want to go back to the moonshine days? How many of you boycott liquor because its taxed by the government?
As for all of you who put words in my mouth with your anti-government agendas, shame one you. This thread had practically nothing to do with the government. I spoke of science and technology. I'll be back, time to get the kids out the door.
science and technology is great until, FDA, big business and taxing and everyone else gets their hands in on it. Tobacco is big money for alot of people, booze is also big business and lots of money for lots of people. There are alot of back door deals going on. If there wernt then tobacco would have been ban along time ago as soon as they found out how deadly it is.
Let me ask you this, tell me you have never bought a cookie or cake or any home made item from a bake sale, or road side stand. Did you know how they were made? How about local made jellys and jams, did you know how they were made. Or do you only buy things that are health department checked. Oh how about that little girl with lemonaid on the corner?
These e-cigs hurt big business including government business (taxes). And they can see e-cigs are big business.
Right now e-cigs and all the things that go along with them are being developed by users. What knows best for the industry but people who use the items. I can almost predict that if the government (FDA) gets into it they will do away with all the fun flavors. They will reduce what e-cigs that are available to what they think is with in what guide line they would set up.
Since Blu is own by one of the tobacco giants, guess what we will have available to us Blu products. All the other FDA approved smoking cessation products dont really work, with a 90% failure rate, it could possibly the e-cig could go the way of them. I can see what will happen cause having worked in a pharmacy for 21 years I saw what the FDA does. They can do this a few different ways regulate who can buy nicotine. Put restrictions on who can manufacture ejuice, put restictions on what e-cig can do and how they can look. They could make it so you cant even drip your own ejuice and have it prefilled carts only with just a few generic flavors. Oh and the whole testing that FDA will demand that is very expensive that little manufactures wont beable to afford, so only the drug companys or tobacco companies will have that kind of money. Oh they can do alot. So when ever anyone says they would like to see what you said you want makes me cringe cause that is just one step closer to the doom of free market and choice. Government then will want their piece of the pie, tax the heck out of them cause they are loosing tax revenue from all these people that arnt smoking anymore.
So its not shame on me ! I guess you dont see a slippery slide you are asking for.
If you are so worried about how something is made use a company that is FDA reg or use a on line company that has a brick and mortar like Pinkspot vapors. Or theres one itn Tenn, and WI. There are quite a few of them.
Just because something isnt made by a major company doesnt mean its bad
