Anyone REALLy think that ecigs aren't going to be banned??

[DaveP]

Big tobacco is smart enough to realize that they can cash in on E-cigs by making and selling their own. That could be a downward spiral unless the product is as profitable as analogs. To make that happen, you have to shut down the competition. It's been rumored that BT has already started up R&D for their own product. Expect to see heavy testing of imported mixes and an eventual shutdown and ban of imported nicotine and e-liquids for whatever reason it takes to accomplish that end.

Big Pharma has a market in this because they can lobby for all e-liquid to be pharmaceutical grade nicotine, which means every bottle has to be made with nic from an approved source. BT profits and so does BP as they begin to make the nic juice from BT raw nicotine extracts. Then we join the $30 a month Nicorette purchasers at the drug store and Walmart.

 

[D103]

Kristin you have summarized it well and correctly, in my opinion, and the "Head Honcho" is the Pharmaceutical Industry Kingpins. I went to a professional training several years ago presented by one of our nations leading, most prestigious neurologist/pharmacologist/researcher and the training was supposed to be specifically about pharmacology and the effects of drugs on the brain and body. Instead, this prominent physician spent the entire ninety minutes speaking to a room filled with doctors, nurses, therapists, counselors, EMTs and other healthcare providers about the nations' "most dangerous drug cartel" - " the pharmaceutical industry. He went on in detail about the enormous powers of Big Pharma and how their powers are grossly misused and how Big Pharma literally controls everything in the medical profession as well as social work and private therapy fields as well. I have sadly and angrily watched over the many years since that training everything he taught us to be true...and then some....and I can say with certainty that you in NO way misstate or exaggerate the present case.