The bill is just so wrong in so many ways, and not just for e-cigs:
- The people who continue to smoke will do so now with a false sense of security believing that cigarettes are now FDA approved and "safer"
- The FDA now has the authority of reducing nicotine levels in cigarettes and eliminating certain chemicals. Doing so will cause the smoker to inhale longer and deeper for compensation, which will actually increase the chances of cancer or emphasema due to smoking, not decrease it
- New smokers will start because they think todays cigarettes are safer.
- It will not stop youths from smoking
- It had the full blessings of Philip Morris, who suckered the Tobacco Free Kids group right into their master plan. While not known at this time, Philip Morris has an agenda other than to reduce the customers who smoke. The FDA may even give Phillip Morris more leniancy regarding the rules as a special "thank you", thus cementing their position as the "cigarette king" because more people flock to the Philip Morris brands to deliver more "satisfaction".
Do you honestly believe for one nanosecond that the largest tobacco company WANTS you to stop smoking and sponsor a bill like this unless they have other plans? I saw the news article on CBS News about this bill passing, and there was a side story about "The big winner of the bill, Philip Morris?" Click the link and the article was removed.
Looks like the Gobernment and PM do not want the public to know this little factoid. Screw 'em. I'm still buying my stuff to vape, and it's going to take something a lot larger than a brain dead government agency, who was fed a bulls*it bill by an equally brain dead Senator, will stop me.