I agree in a small part I did find my way to the vaping world thru Blu and it's cousins but it's us not them that sis threatened by the fda rules.
Quite true. I didn't mean to imply that Blu educated the public about vaping because they bore risk. They did it for no reason beyond selling their products, naturally. My point was that it benefited us (vapers) in a way that Blu was likely not even foreseeing when they shot the ads over two years ago, before the BT and government threats against free vaping (what we do) became what they are now, much less what they'll become before the quandary stabilizes.
The cig - a - likes are ok'd in because there pre 2007 tech.
Actually, the government hasn't OK'ed anything to do with vaping yet. They just haven't quashed anything about it yet, either. And I agree wholeheartedly that we should keep it that way.
We invented the pogo stick. Now, the government is just starting to see people pogoing around town. And us pogoers are free to pogo as we like - within reason, of course - because there aren't any anti-pogo laws yet. Although most of us early pogoers are pogoing in a sensible way that's respectful of others, a small but growing few of us are power-pogoing through pedestrian hoards, and even though a pogo stick can't actually kill people en masse, more and more people are starting to think that might just happen.
So a few - then a few more - panicked people tap their government reps, and those reps are teaming up with the skateboard and bicycle industries in an apparent attempt to quash the pogo industry out of existence. Because, of course, the government has been in the pockets of bikers and skateboarders for far longer than our beloved pogoing has even existed.
But good news. Us pogoers are growing our numbers. We're actively recruiting, in fact. As hard and as fast as we can. And as much as the biking and skateboarding industries want to shove us interloping competitors off the map, we pogoers live here too. And we pay taxes too. And our numbers are steadily growing week by week, month by month.
NOW... Here's the key, my fellow pogoers. We must recruit enough pogoers to our side to cross a magic line. There isn't really a specific population size that can be applied. It's more of a force level, you see. A point of critical mass. A wall that's just a tiny bit too high for the government to knock down without fomenting a just-big-enough-to-be-problematic voter rebellion. (Remember, the worst nightmare of any politician is the prospect of being voted out of office by his or her constituents. We can and MUST use that to our advantage.)
We hit that critical point before the government can swing their gavel, we win. We don't, we lose. It's not entirely that simple, but that's the gist of it.
Add into the mix the fact that not all of us pogoers pogo in sensible and respectful ways near members of the non-pogoing public. Some power-pogoers have actually pogoed their brains out all over the pavement right in front of families and kids and happy little hobbits. A few here. A few there. It won't take many to make our recruiting race against government anti-pogo action significantly harder than it should be.
Finally, I don't like telling people how they should or should not pogo. I don't think most other pogoers do, either. But what we - ALL OF US - do in public with our pogo sticks will be watched. And often recorded, in this age of ubiquitous camera-laden smartphones in the hands of all the non-pogoers out there.
So I do not at all blame power pogoers for making things worse. But I will ask them, quite respectfully, to please keep in mind the fight that ALL of us pogoers have at our very doorstep regarding this thing we love to do so much. And, as we all should do, to act accordingly.
And there endeth my case.
I think if we vape in public more and don't hide the real truth behind what vaping is and how harmless it is would help us in the long run. of course it may not matter now and it could be too late that the Government has seen how much money tax will bring in if classified as a tobacco product as the fda is doing. Sigh vape proud well you still can.
Amen to that, brother.
But I have faith in us pogoers. Um, I mean vapers. I foresee that we'll hit our critical mass just before the gavel falls. This doesn't mean we should slow down in our push one bit. If we give it our all, we'll win. If we don't... Well, then I'll just say luck be a lady.
(Don't ask me why I felt the need to turn vapers into pogoers to make my point. I must have bumped my head earlier today.)
