Our corrupt leaders have figured out something most of us have not. There is no golden goose.. My DIY costs $30 per year. A couple of devices are enough. The industry will eventually be a few China based manufactures and the rest will be too diffuse to register on the economy. But that tiny bit of economic activity will replace the gigantic $800 billion tobacco business.
I imagine you could smoke for $30 a year too if you grew, cured, cut, and rolled your own tobacco. While that would somewhat more labor-intensive than DIY'ing juice, it's entirely doable, and totally legal. The thing is, the vast majority of smokers didn't do that, and I'm sure the vast majority of vapers don't/won't either. Remember that the folks here on ECF are not representative of the vapers out in the wild. The fact that nic prices aren't sky high right now proves that.
May be the Feds will ban vaping completely by prohibition or taxes and may be that will stamp it out here but we are just 4% of smokers. Is the whole world going to do the same? Will a ban stick if we are right that vaping is eliminating smoking and that's evident in nations where vaping left alone?
Time is money and growing tobacco for personal use would cost something. If there is a harsh FDA crack down and a grace period stockpiling might increase but still the US is a small percent of smokers.I imagine you could smoke for $30 a year too if you grew, cured, cut, and rolled your own tobacco. While that would somewhat more labor-intensive than DIY'ing juice, it's entirely doable, and totally legal. The thing is, the vast majority of smokers didn't do that, and I'm sure the vast majority of vapers don't/won't either. Remember that the folks here on ECF are not representative of the vapers out in the wild. The fact that nic prices aren't sky high right now proves that.
Just like Prohibition stamped out alcohol or the war on (some) drugs has stamped out the substances that were banned?
