Hi everyone I am new to these forums and new to vapping and have been lurking for a few weeks to learn a few things. I started vapping about a month ago and have been off analogs for a while now. But I noticed on this forum that there is a Legislation New section where this post might belong but I am too new to post there so I will say it here.
I have experience in grassroots advocacy with online poker. I see a lot of similarities with the poker community and the vaping community. I also see some legal similarities as well.
The poker community has online forums just like this one. Here y'all discuss mainly how to make MODs and the best way to vape. The poker community mainly discussed how to play a poker the best way.
Also the poker community has the PPA (Poker Players Alliance) and the Vape community has CASAA. Which from what I can tell the vapping community as a whole seems to be ignoring the legislation news for the most part just like poker players did back in 2006. And it was in 2006 where congress though it would be a good thing to ban online gambling and not exclude poker. They did this with a very vague law called UIGEA. Which may or may not of made poker illegal. Some poker sites stayed in USA until 4-15-2011. In 2006 we the poker community had no idea what to do about so UIGEA got passed.
I am glad to see we have and organization like CASAA out right now but I have spotted a few problems with them. First of them being it does not give the Vapors a place to write there law makers and speak out. Which IMO should of been the 1st thing they should have done.
In 2006 their where 2 types of lobbyist that where pushing UIGEA though the Vegas casino lobby and the Anti-gaming groups. I see the same thing happening with the vapping world. The anti-smoking group who think all tobacco/nicotine is bad and possibly if vaping gets big enough the Big Tobacco lobby because they see vaping as a threat to losing market share. I do not for see a ban on Ecigs/vaping but I do see a future of heavy regulation and limited competition in the market place. But I do believe that the Vaping community can get ahead of this now before its to late.
If we don't speak out about this to our law makers someone else will for you.
I have experience in grassroots advocacy with online poker. I see a lot of similarities with the poker community and the vaping community. I also see some legal similarities as well.
The poker community has online forums just like this one. Here y'all discuss mainly how to make MODs and the best way to vape. The poker community mainly discussed how to play a poker the best way.
Also the poker community has the PPA (Poker Players Alliance) and the Vape community has CASAA. Which from what I can tell the vapping community as a whole seems to be ignoring the legislation news for the most part just like poker players did back in 2006. And it was in 2006 where congress though it would be a good thing to ban online gambling and not exclude poker. They did this with a very vague law called UIGEA. Which may or may not of made poker illegal. Some poker sites stayed in USA until 4-15-2011. In 2006 we the poker community had no idea what to do about so UIGEA got passed.
I am glad to see we have and organization like CASAA out right now but I have spotted a few problems with them. First of them being it does not give the Vapors a place to write there law makers and speak out. Which IMO should of been the 1st thing they should have done.
In 2006 their where 2 types of lobbyist that where pushing UIGEA though the Vegas casino lobby and the Anti-gaming groups. I see the same thing happening with the vapping world. The anti-smoking group who think all tobacco/nicotine is bad and possibly if vaping gets big enough the Big Tobacco lobby because they see vaping as a threat to losing market share. I do not for see a ban on Ecigs/vaping but I do see a future of heavy regulation and limited competition in the market place. But I do believe that the Vaping community can get ahead of this now before its to late.
If we don't speak out about this to our law makers someone else will for you.
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