[h=2]Lawmakers Needlessly Punish a Population that they STILL dont Understand[/h] Filed under: Miscellaneous Vaping News 1 Comment
November 29, 2013
November 29, 2013
I just spent the better part of four hours reading about current anti-smoking/anti-vaping legislation and proposals around the world, concentrating mostly on the USA and the EU, where the battle hits closest to home for myself and my fellow vapers. Juxtaposing all of the current legislative attempts against the many tried and failed attempts of the past really only points to one conclusion concerning this issue: The addition of more cigarette taxes does not effectively cut down on the number of active smokers, warnings are as good as a humorous punchline to smokers, and the more restrictions and regulations that are put in place, the more smokers will dig their heels in and rebel against compulsory interference in their lives.
With this in mind, and knowing that the tighter you (government) clench your fists around smokers, the harder theyre going to fight back, it just seems kind of unnecessarily cruel to continually increase the price of cigarettes during hard economic times especially. Smokers will, by and large, continue to smoke the same amount of cigarettes per day, and the rest of the expenses in their lives will go unpaid because of it. Obviously, there is something to be said for personal responsibility, which is incumbent on all of us to recognize and implement in our own lives, smoker or non-smoker. However, with other options available for smokers that can both cure them of their dependency on tobacco cigarettes, save them massive amounts of money, and not challenge them to sink their talons into their beloved nicotine dependency for fear of loosing it, why continue to take this failed, confrontational approach... (Click here to read the rest of my article.)
