Fox article: Somewhat positive!

[H. Hodges]

I just found this article on Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos & News Videos. It highlights some of the exorbitant taxes some states are trying to pass on e-cigs and some of the reasons why. It's one of the few somewhat positive e-cig articles I have seen recently. However, it just goes to show us how much of a battle we still have to fight! See it here:

States push to regulate, tax booming e-cigarette industry | Fox News

The article also highlights the fact that e-cigs are not being regulated for general public health reasons, but the tax revenue being lost by the states from people making the switch from analogs to e-cigs. And, here I thought Big brother was just trying to look out for my well being... (sarcasm intended!)

 

[element9633]

Yea my mom said she saw something on fox news yesterday about it (she doesn't vape or smoke, just telling me bc she knows I do). But they are obviously going to tax something if they can, so atleast they are acknowledging them rather than trying to ban them right now. I just don't know what there is to regulate/tax. the eliquid I guess, but with how easy it is to build your own ecig, how could they regulate/tax mods/batteries? I would have a problem if they started putting taxes on kanthal and such, I mean im already paying a sales tax on that in some places

 

[Phlotsum]

The goverment is going to get its hand in your pocket somehow. I'm sure the revenue from the lost cigarette tax is going to be a shock to them. Kind of like the lost gas tax revenue when a lot of people switch to electric cars. Give them a bit, they'll figure out how to get "their" money.

 

[Ravensfan]

All of these years we have been told that the cigarette tax was to help all of those people hurt by smoking and that it still wasn't enough. It was a bunch of lies. The government has assumed that the 20% of adults who smoked were so hooked that they could just keep raising cig taxes and bring in the dough. Now there is an alternative that works, and they are scared to death that their slush fund will dry up. This has never been about getting people off of cigarettes.

 

[sonicdsl]

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