Expense A Major Factor?

[Abbell]

I can build a 5v mod for under $15. I can buy VG at Walmart... and food flavorings will not be regulated... THEY ARE FOOD FLAVORINGS!

The nicotine is the only weak spot. So you have 3 options. Distill your own out of vegetables, extract from tobacco, or go zero nic.

 

[ScottP]

I'll preface this by saying this is TOTALLY hypothetical, but I was just curious... If vaping (and all the costs associated with it) were regulated by big brother to the point where it equaled/exceeded the cost of analogs, would you A) Go back to analogs , B) Continue vaping, or C) Neither, and quit both. ?

Personally, I would continue vaping to the point of where the cost equaled analogs, but if the cost FAR EXCEEDED analogs, I'm not honestly sure. I would be interested to hear what you all think. Peace.

I would go find the guy responsible for enacting the regulations, I would take my iTaste SVD, polish it up, turn it sideways and shove it straight up his....

Ok maybe not but that is what I would want to do.

 

[DasBluCig]

I would go find the guy responsible for enacting the regulations, I would take my iTaste SVD, polish it up, turn it sideways and shove it straight up his....

Ok maybe not but that is what I would want to do.

If you're gonna do THAT with it.....Don't POLISH it....LET IT RUST....Then THRUST!!!
Or......not.....
I'm with the school that says...Worry when the time comes!!! There's MORE than enough to worry about life in general to keep ME busy for a LONG time!!! Meantime......to one and all....
Happy (vaping) Trails!

 

[Myrany]

I have already worked my way down to 1 mg nic juice (I DIY). I plan to be down to zero within a month or 2.

I think I could muddle my way through making a puck mod though it would mean learning to solder. The circuit isn't that complicated.

It Attys that have me worried. So I am stockpiling rebuildables and clearos with replaceable/rebuildable heads.

Even if I never buy another piece of hardware at this point I could vape for years. They can't stop the sales of PG, VG, and flavorings as they are used in too many other things including the food industry.

It is nic and hardware that will be the bottlenecks.

 

[Ryedan]

I'll preface this by saying this is TOTALLY hypothetical, but I was just curious... If vaping (and all the costs associated with it) were regulated by big brother to the point where it equaled/exceeded the cost of analogs, would you A) Go back to analogs , B) Continue vaping, or C) Neither, and quit both. ?

Personally, I would continue vaping to the point of where the cost equaled analogs, but if the cost FAR EXCEEDED analogs, I'm not honestly sure. I would be interested to hear what you all think. Peace.

None of the above.

You are leaving out a couple of options.

The following come to mind:

Reduce consumption.
Zero nic.
DIY (hardware and software)
Lower cost black market.

I'm already at zero nic. I make my own juice. I use mechanical mods that I can also build myself if needed and I use RBA's that I can also build myself.

 

[ScottP]

I don't know why people are worried about bans on hardware. NO government agency has the authority to regulate the hardware. It would require a bill from congress, passed in both houses then signed by the president to ban the hardware that we use. The ONLY hardware that the FDA could even think about regulating are prefilled disposables and prefilled cartos. It is the juice that they can regulate and devices sold with it already in them.

 

[Myrany]

I don't know why people are worried about bans on hardware. NO government agency has the authority to regulate the hardware. It would require a bill from congress, passed in both houses then signed by the president to ban the hardware that we use. The ONLY hardware that the FDA could even think about regulating are prefilled disposables and prefilled cartos. It is the juice that they can regulate and devices sold with it already in them.

I am afraid of hardware scarcity issues BECAUSE I have no brick and mortar store within a 7 hour drive of me. If they ban internet sales I am pretty much SOL.

 

[ScottP]

I am afraid of hardware scarcity issues BECAUSE I have no brick and mortar store within a 7 hour drive of me. If they ban internet sales I am pretty much SOL.

That is what I am saying. The hardware is neither a Food nor a Drug so the Food and Drug Administration absolutely cannot ban online sales of the hardware. All they can do is regulate the online sales of the juice and prefilled things that contain the juice. They can no more ban the batteries or empty toppers than they can ban an empty bottle.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

That is what I am saying. The hardware is neither a Food nor a Drug so the Food and Drug Administration absolutely cannot ban online sales of the hardware. All they can do is regulate the online sales of the juice and prefilled things that contain the juice. They can no more ban the batteries or empty toppers than they can ban an empty bottle.

Finally, a kindred spirit.

That Evod has no nicotine in it. Ergo, it is not a tobacco product. Neither does that Ego battery. Or than shiny new mech mod. So, they're not tobacco products, either.

Liquid nicotine? Well, that is a tobacco product. But it's been commercially available for many years and has a number of other uses besides what we're doing with it. All I'd have to do is proclaim that my new brand of Boudreaux's Zit Zapper juice contains a natural, herbal remedy for acne.

 

[tj99959]

I can't go back to smoking (and continue living), so that's not an option. The reality is that this mess has been going on since 2009, so there is little in the way of excuses for not being prepared.
I started playing with RBA's about a year ago. Not because I wanted a better delivery system, but because if what was in common use became impossible to get or unaffordable I would have an alternative that I could rebuild myself. The FDA has no jurisdiction over kanthal wire or cotton balls.
With more than enough PV's to last several lifetimes this leaves only nicotine as something I need to worry about. So that is where I now spend my extra cash. Both PG & VG are used for to many other things, there is no way that FDA regulations or taxation will mess with them.

So I'm prepared no matter what the FDA would choose to do ......... are you?

 

[tanzmitpalmer]

I'd quickly learn to get friendly with DIY. 'Course I'd be screwed if my mods ever went belly up, cos I don't have THAT kind of talent, but I can certainly mix my own juice and build a coil.

You people and your stream of hypotheticals are making me want to get some 100mg nic. *flail*