Grover Norquist; Vaping and the Changing Electorate

[NoFumus]

Grover Norquist on C-SPAN: Vaping and the Changing Electorate in 2016


"...these are all freedom issues that run up against old laws that don’t make any sense anymore and each of these expanding freedoms have changed the nature of the electorate. I would add to that vaping.

Ten years ago, back when Hillary Clinton was a senator, there was no vaping, ecigarettes and so on. Today, 10 million Americans vape. That is a change in the electorate. It's not based on…sometimes people talk about demographic change. They mean race or ethnicity. I'm talking about behavior and questions about liberty.

Ten million people vape, use ecigarettes. They've quit tobacco, which is not very good for your lungs. vaping has less than 99 percent of the problems that tobacco does. People feel very good about it, and our liberal friends want to tax it, regulate it, and, in fact, have announced they want to have a prohibition, like we did with liquor, on vaping. The FDA's moving towards that."

edit: Sentence should read: "Vaping has less than 99 percent less of the problems that tobacco does" (Sorry, transcription error. Thanks @pianoguy) And, I'd assume he meant, Vaping has 99 percent less of the problems that tobacco does."

 

[Scottitude]

Thanks for posting this.

 

[Mossy]

Thanks.....

 

[pianoguy]

I'm guessing that he meant that vaping has 99% fewer problems than tobacco ;-)

 

[Cheechako]

Since the columnist brings it up, I was wondering if either affiliation is more adamant about controlling and
taxing vape products, Liberals or conservatives?

 

[nicnik]

Since the columnist brings it up, I was wondering if either affiliation is more adamant about controlling and
taxing vape products, Liberals or conservatives?

To generalize, in the U.S., in State Governments, liberals have been slightly worse regarding vaping than conservatives. In the Federal Government, liberals have been a lot worse. At the local level, I'm guessing liberals have been somewhat worse.

In the NGO's liberals seem to dominate the anti-vaping campaign.

Among the public, I suspect most liberals and conseravtives are anti-vaping to at least some degree.

There are many exceptions, both in and out of government. Some liberals support vaping and some conservatives fight against it. Both liberals and conservatives betray their ideologies by attacking vaping. Liberals have a tradition of supporting harm reduction in other areas, and conservatives have a tradition of fighting needless laws and regulations. However, money can corrupt almost any values someone holds dear.

 

[nicnik]

I'm guessing that he meant that vaping has 99% fewer problems than tobacco ;-)

Yeah, he must've meant 99% less potential harm. He tripped over that stat and seemed to quickly mumble a correction, but the way it was quoted was how it first came off his lips.