I donate a matching amount to CASAA after every vape order I make and have called the Savannah and Lowell Town Council members every other day for the last couple of weeks. Free nationwide calling is awesome! Keep calling the Lowell meeting is on Aug. 9th.
Unfortunately it comes as no shock that we have a bought and paid for congress. As vaping has gained popularity it becomes a larger threat to the powers that be. Demanding studies can work in your favor or or your demise. Although many are Mom and Pop shops, don't kid yourselves by thinking they are not making a sizable profit.
How many resellers and juice manufacturers proudly display CASAA on their websites? Why? I believe they see this as a David and Goliath scenario and most of our Davids will make their money while they can until a ban is passed. Most Davids realize that even if they pulled together and gave 10% of their bottomline for lobbyists, their funding would pale to bottomless pit of funding by Big Tobacco. It might be a fair fight if it weren't for the fact that the States and Feds also have an interest along with Big Pharma, the AMA, and the FDA. Any manufacturer that has it's own private army (ATF) is going to do anything possible to crush any opposition.
Bought and paid for? You tell me...
(Excerpt June 12, 2010) cbsnews.com
Meanwhile, as an anti-smoking bill passed in Congress moves to the president's desk, McClatchy Newspapers points out that some of the top recipients of campaign contributions from the tobacco industry were among the few Senators who voted against the bill, which passed 79 to 17 on Thursday.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) were among those named. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, has received $228,700 from tobacco-related political action committees and individual contributions over the course of his career. The senators say the campaign contributions did not affect their votes, McClatchy reports.
"I voted against the FDA tobacco bill because I'm opposed to the overregulation of an industry that's already highly regulated, from farmer to manufacturer," Chambliss said. "The bill saddles the already overburdened FDA with even more oversight duties, and does nothing to reduce the rate of smoking among Americans — cigarettes already on the shelves will remain on the market."
Of course, if you think Saxby Chambliss gives a rats azz about reducing the rate of smoking I have a couple of bridges I will sell you for cheap.
That being said, I am stocking-up on batts, carts, cartos, and lots of juice while donating to the cause. The sad part of this is that the more successful people become from switching away from analogs to vaping, the more pressure Big Tobacco et. al will place on politicians via lobbying.
Recently Josh Harris of Deadliest Catch was using a E-Cig on Leno which probably has sent alarms off throughout the analog industry.
