I'd be really surprised if cloud chasing had any impact whatsoever on future regulation or laws. There are far more eGo related fires and accidents because 90% or so are using ego/clearo type set ups. I don't think that will have any effect on regulation either. Why? because an exploding battery at a cloud competition or an ego fire in Joeys bedroom doesn't cost big tobacco a dime.
im not worried about cloud chasing 'directly' effecting future regulation or laws that will be put in place regardless. Where im coming from is the fact that,if an exploding battery at a cloud competition happens, lots of people see it compared to ego batteries exploding in joeys bedroom. its the bad publicity that people will use to demonize ecigs. Of course, i would blame the user himself for not being knowledgable of the limits of his setup or the manufacturer for faulty product, but if the people who are fighting against us get a hold of this type of media attention they are able to twist it into something that will help them push against us. I mean it already happened at a big event and was publicized, the vape meets/events are getting larger and larger every year, and those kind of stuff will stick in people sminds because of the growing interest in vaping and higher amounts of people attending these kind of events. back when vape meets were only in the two figure attendance numbers, i wouldnt bet against stuff having malfunctioned or people misusing mods to the point of danger, but word not spreading. but with us growing to hundreds maybe thousands of people per vape meets with big companies at these events, if an incident happens again it will get way more media attention.
the more popular vaping gets the more regulation it will get, i mean its already starting to be regulated, and the thing we can do is keep fighting for our rights to prevent harsher restrictions from coming out. vaping is harmless compared to smoking, but laws are being made that treat vaping on equal ground to smoking, if not even worse. the more it grows the more publicity it will get and when things happen, laws will be made to prevent those things from happening again.
I am just in favor of trying to prevent those laws from getting worse, as long as possible, to keep prices down, to keep vaping a business that can exist in the U.S., anything that can prevent the inevitable total FDA regulation of our tobacco alternative products, which would raise prices of everything due to the fact that people in the U.S. would have to pay to have their products tested before they can sell them to the public, and if that ever happens, it will destroy the vaping industry and further raise products that are made and sold in the U.S. Right now U.S. made and sold product cant come close to competing with chinese product pricing. Im willing to bet the majority of the vaping community buy clones and product that are made in china. What if those prices were raised higher due to the fact that the companies had to have their products tested by the FDA before they are able to sell them? No one would buy them, and we would further keep having to go overseas and contribute to someone elses economy.
The majority of the starter businesses in the U.S. made money by making e-liquids, which they make a huge profit margin on because if you buy bulk materials it is DIRT cheap, where 'gourmet' and boutiquey style 30ml bottles cost upwards of 20$+ dollars, making it yourself you can spend 20$ to make over 300ml of eliquid. If you think prices of eliquid are high now, if the FDA ever regulate it it will cost more than double that price just for the business to make back the ridiculous amount of money (that only big companies can afford) they have to pay to get EACH eliquid flavoring tested and be able to sell.
that was long winded but like i said before, the sole reason I dislike 'competition-vaping' is because it raises the risks of things going wrong/malfunctioning. vaping on mechs already contains its own dangers, if it didnt then there wouldnt be stickies about battery safety on this forum.
