It's really not about children - the 'for the children' excuse is nothing but a strawman that politicians trot out every time they want to guilt people into inaction and increase government power. They know it hits people on a primal level, opens the door for guilt-mongerers who intimidate, and makes us back quietly away while handing over our wallets and our adult rights.
shortly before his death, Michael Crichton wrote a interesting essay entitled "Aliens Caused Global Warming' About 4/5th's of the way thru, he discusses how the FDA used politically-twisted science to turn second-hand smoke into a hysterical 'for the children' issue that greatly increased the regulatory power of the FDA as an agency.. The same agency that took four months to find out where a contaminated tomato came from. As Dr. Drew said recently, e-cigs would have to be pretty darn nasty to even come close to the damage a regular cigarette can do. As long as the juice manufacturers have tight quality control and random testing done by independent labs on a regular basis, (and I'm including the vendors who take it upon themselves to rebottle diluted product) I don't see what all the smoke is about other than power.
I'd post the link to Crichton's speech, but I don't have enough posts yetYou can find it at Michael Crichton dot com, click "aliens" on the list on the left. A good bedtime read.
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