IMO
So there goes my Monika's Magic Menthol Mania Merengue flavor options?
Tobacco?
How much actual tobacco is in it?
Not enough to smoke; not enough to chew; not enough to measure without super-sensitive science!
Where did nicotine go in this picture?
It's a pleasure issue. It's a constitutional right issue. It's the pursuit of happiness without hurting yourself or society or civilization at large.
It's about WHO and FDA and BTP (big tobacco & pharma inc.) defining our rights.
WHO should have looked at PG before there even was a WHO. The health technology was out there. Screw the flu - 69 years too late.
FDA: Peanuts, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Vioxx (the name is scary).
BTP: Vioxx (Prozac, Theophylline, etc.); Newport, Marlboro, Parliament, Camel or how about a Life or True or Real or Vantage or Lucky Strike!? And the sick and dead win that lottery - in court. Now if a few hundred billion gets paid out to the "winners", how much did that really hurt BTP? Books please; emails please.....
NRT, Tobacco, PV, Electronic Cigarette.
Whatever you want to call it, it is exactly what it is: a safer and healthier option to a cultural behavior which has relatively recently been found to be dangerous in a large variety of ways (including but not limited to burning your house, town or favorite forest down).
The only thing it threatens is tyrannical power.
And they want to define "Life" and what's "Real" and "True" or a "Vantage" (your BTP vantage from the grave)? Protecting their little cemeteries is just a part of it. There are huge profits. They very efficiently manage an international money machine with huge control and power to ensure those huge profits. And everyone wins. Governments get taxes, health care makes money too. No bailout money here.
No bailouts for us either. But we lose.
There's a big picture here. The thumbnail is this fiasco about this simple little device and it's benefits being battered and hammered with preemptive tactics.
The fresco is a strategy to get this whole planet healthy way beyond tobacco and nicotine.
From my "vantage" point there are too many millions of dying babies without even water or electricity or sewers in this world. That is "True", that is "Real" - we need to respect "Life" and hope all this is more than just a "Lucky Strike".
So now I'll be labeled a radical vaporist. What's next? DHS (Homeland Security); FBI; CIA; any other three letter acronyms care to join in?
Call me an A**?