I've said this over and over again...I quit smoking accidentally. I started ecigs just as a way to smoke indoors without leaving a residue or smell in the air. That was all with the original intent. Went from a PAD to about 3 per day instantly. like a month or two later, I totally quit. That's why I have no timer banner, because I don't know the exact date.. I never tried to quit. I even had four packs and 3 in the last pack... left the open pack in the truck when we sold the truck (on purpose).
I am still amazed at how the FDA can force companies to take the smoking cessation claim off an Ecigarette website, but I still see "magnetic bands to stop smoking" or all the homeopathic remedies to stop smoking still stay up. It wasn't until people started to actually discovered that ecigarettes actually help people to stop smoking by offering a viable substitute for getting the nicotine that mimicked real smoking became available that the bans started to come up. I have never been a "conspiracy theorist", nor did I think the government was out to blatantly rob people of money, but after experiencing a product that effortlessly helped me quit the smoking habbit, then I turn around and see this product under attack constantly by taxation and just outright banning, I now see the true side of the story.
I started ecigarettes blindly. I bought a trial ecig in the grocery store knowing NOTHING about ecigarettes or knowing the potential to actually stop smoking. I vaped for a few weeks and noticed my smoking habbits quickly diminishing.. noticed how my cigarette started to taste worse and worse.... THEN I did some research and found out people were using these to actually quit. I continued out of curiosity, and guess what... I quit.
FDA hasn't approved it as a smoking cessation device, so, people cannot market it as a smoking cessation device. There have been thousands of cases of people actually quitting smoking due to ecigarettes. All the ingredients have been used for inhalation. Propylene glycol has been used for inhalation for many many years by millions of people with little or no alarm being sent out. Vegetable Glycerin is also GRAS, and has the same low toxicity as PG (if not lower). Nicotine, the drug that chains everyone to cigarettes, does not cause cancer. yet combine the three, and it must be taxed as a "sin tax" the result would cause people to go back to smoking something that will kill them eventually. It is utterly absurd.
The only reason I can see this, is there's big money to be had somewhere. It's becoming more popular, so the government must be viewing this as a means to make more money to balance their failing budgets. In instances where it's not about the government income, the Tobacco industry is lobbying because it's an attack on their industry. The people who rally behind these bills are the uninformed. They see something that looks like smoke, so it must be smoke, and smoke causes cancer. Well, that's simply not true.
Where there's smoke, there's fire, but where there's vapor, there's a healthier person. People just need to get that point across.
Ok.. stepping off my soapbox.
