Five Pawns just threw in the towel. So did Slim's E-Juice. Vape Dudes is trying to find a way to keep their international business profitable while attempting to find a way to keep their domestic business open.
If you look a the PMTA list, the number of vendors who have filed has remained the same. No increase since Congress ruined their businesses.
This is the classic case of government overreach. Not once, but twice.
Simply put, this is bull.....
If I was one of those vendors who took the time, trouble and expense of filing a PMTA only to have another branch of government ruin my business, I'd file a lawsuit.
Things like this happen all the time and all around the world.
Case in point,when in Spain they decided to restrict smoking in restaurants and bars (tapas type bars not like pubs) they forced said businesses to upgrade their establishments.
The law dictated that they could reserve a 30% of the size of the establishment for smokers,that of course meant an upgrade with it's subsequent cost.
By upgrade i mean spend about 20.000 euros (in some cases much more,depending on the size of the restaurant or bar) making a special area for smokers,you know closed up with glass,special air filtration units etc etc.
The anti tobacco law was enforced in 2010,i think 2 years before that is when they forced restaurants and bars to make the changes so they could have a smoking zone.
Apart from the obvious that smoking is bad we can all agree with that,but the way the Spanish government screwed up local restaurants and bars was just plain evil.
They spend the money and resources to make an area for smokers and then less than two years later (not sure about that,could be less) they come up with the new law that erases the previous one and bans ALL smoking in restaurants and bars.
Between 40.000 and 50.000 establishments spent the money to remodel their business so they could make room for that smoking area,at 20.000 euros a pop and estimating 45.000 restaurants/bars that comes up to roughly to 900 million euros...that just ain't right.
And keep in mind this was already when the crisis was in full effect,so yeah moronic decisions done by the government is a wide spread issue,happens in Spain...happens in the USA and it happens everywhere.