The anti-vaping politicians have hit us below the belt by saying that vapers hurt children. "Think of the children!" isn't that their motto?
I say we retaliate by hitting them low with the most explosive accusation. What is the most explosive topic in the USA? RACE. Yes, I say we use the race card. I just did a quick google search for the racial demographics of smokers in the USA and came upon the CDC's website.
Cigarette Smoking in the United States - Tips From Former Smokers
From the CDC on the breakdown of cigarette smokers by race and/or ethnicity:
-American Indian/Alaska Natives: 29.2%
-Asians: 9.5%
-Blacks: 17.5%
-Hispanics: 11.2%
-Multiple races: 27.9%
-Whites: 18.2%
-A bonus Fact: 24% of US military members smoke cigarettes.
-Another bonus Fact: 23.9% of the LGBT community smokes cigarettes.
As we can see clearly, American Indians, Blacks, people with multiple racial backgrounds, along with many members of the US military, and LGBT community have more cigarette smokers than they are as a total population percentage in the US.
So what does this mean? We use the race, anti-military, and homophobic cards to say that the anti-vaping politicians don't care about those groups. Because vaping has the potential to get those groups to stop smoking. And since most of these anti-vaping politicians are white liberal Democrats, using those cards would be apropos for the situation. One of the worst things a white liberal/Democrat hates more than anything in this world is to be called a racist. I live in California and have been around them all my life, that's one of the worst things you can call them, since they consider themselves to be so liberal and open minded.
In order to win this war, we have to go with public opinion and win their hearts and minds. What better way to win their hearts and minds by calling the opponents racists, homophobic, and anti-military? What better way to win this war than to paint them as wanting to kill off our minority population by having them still continue smoking? We'll just make up a few stuff that Democrats don't see these minority groups as real Americans and want them to die off. We'll say these Democrats already have a history of being anti-US military by saying that they not only want our service men and women to get a bullet on the field of war but also lung cancer through continue smoking of cigs. We'll also say that they're homophobic and wish the LGBT community not only to die of AIDS but lung cancer.
If the anti-vaping politicians want to get down and dirty. I say we take the fight to them. We'll get down and nasty with these accusations. They got down and dirty when they accused us of hurting children.