OK. I will refrain from analogies this time. Those were only meant to show how silly *some* people sound when they talk about their own products of choice.
So, let's look at the facts, shall we?
"Nicotine can be synthesized and found in other plants however none of these are found in commercially sold ejuice" and "You would need to present the juice with synthesized nic or vegetable nic"
Fact number one: What is exactly the origin of the Pharma-grade nicotine used in Pharma NRT's? Tobacco.
Fact number two: Despite using nicotine extracted from tobacco, are those products considered "tobacco produts"? No. Because they are "clean", and "safe", and all that B.S. Pharma did not have to present "synthesized nic or vegetable nic"-based products to have them dissociated from the stigma of tobacco products.
For example, the fabled 2009 FDA's "nitrosamines report" basically proved that as far as nitrosamines are concerned, e-cigs were shown to be as safe as the Nicotrol inhaler. The levels of nitrosamines found in e-liquid ("Dangerous" in the case of e-cigs, but "safe" in the case of Nicotrol) were similar because the same Pharma-grade nicotine was being used in both cases.
One is a "clean", "safe" Pharma product. The other is a nasty "tobacco product". Go figure.
The same biased double standards some of us use when talking about our our own products.
Fact number three: "You will never convince regulators that nicotine extracted from tobacco isn't a tobacco product". Forget about legislators. If not even *vapers*, who deal with vaping products in a daily basis, cannot be convinced that there is a double standard here (apparently, it is "dishonest" to state our vaping produts are *not* tobacco products), then of course I will never convince legistators, lobbyists and politicians (who have a horse in the race) otherwise.
We have been so beaten by the anti-smoking rethoric over the years as smokers, that we cannot even see how illogical we sound sometimes:
Pharma NRT's, despite ALWAYS having nicotine extracted from tobacco, are not evil tobacco products, because there's NO tobacco in there (unlike other safer forms of tobacco like Snus). There's nicotine, and nicotine alone.
E-cigarettes *must* be considered evil tobacco products at all costs, because they MIGHT have the *same* Pharma-grade nicotine (and nicotine alone) extracted from the *same* tobacco leaves. And stating otherwise is "not being honest with ourselves".
I guess anti-e-cig lobbyists simply love the "logic" some of us use. It makes their hard work soooooo much easier, doesn't it?