It's an invalid argument.
All the nicotine in ejuice actually comes from tobacco. We have to be honest with ourselves if we ever intend to win.
It's not cost effective to extract nicotine from vegetables, but of you did and made ejuice, then you may have a valid argument for your brand.
However you won't make a profit unless You charge $50 a ml.
Sorry, but I beg to differ.
Very conveniently, in the ANTZ's book, Pharma NRT's are not considered tobacco products - and unlike our liquids, ALL of them have nicotine.
But they rushed to demonize e-cigs as a new "tobacco product", when there's no tobacco matter in there (unlike Snus, for example), and there even might be *no* nicotine in there. Are they being "honest" with us?
The simple fact that nicotine is extracted from tobacco *today*, only because it is *cheaper* that way, should not be enough to classify something as a "tobacco" product. There *are* other sources in Nature, and someday, it might be cheaper to make it in a lab.
Exactly like it happened with *insulin*.
Even when it was *extracted* from the pancreas of pigs and oxen, (until the mid 80's), insulin was never considered a "pork product", like ham or bacon. That would be silly, since healthy humans *also* produce it. And because there were other known sources, and other predictable methods of production in the future - today, it's bioengineered in a lab.
A "tobacco product" *should* have plant matter in it to be considered as such. No matter how Science evolves, we'll *always* need tobacco to produce cigarettes and Snus, for example. That *might* not be true in the future, for e-cigs and NRT's alike.
Think about coffe, for example. Is it a coffe product? Sure. I do *need* coffe to make a cup of coffe. Does it have caffeine? Yes, it does.
How about decaf? Is it a coffe product? Sure. How on Earth would I be able mo make decaf without coffe beans?
However, does it have *caffeine*? Well, as the name implies... no.
How about black tea? Does it have caffeine? Sure. Do I need coffe to make a cup of black tea? No.
How about Red Bull, or NRG? Do they have caffeine? Yep. Are they considered coffe products? Tea products? "Cottea" producs?
None of the above. They are simply considered soft drinks with added caffeine.
We should not fall under the ANTZ's biased rethoric, because they are the ones NOT being honest. They have yet to make up their minds: either e-cigs AND Pharma NRT's are to be considered "tobacco products" (Putting "respectable" Pharma NRT's under the all-too-negative "tobacco stigma" as well), or they must be BOTH considered "nicotine-containing, non-tobacco products", because there's no tobacco plant matter in there - and therefore, BOTH of those products *might* be produced differently in the future.
