Sadly it's not even about the health - it's sheer fascist intolerance, and an ingrained impulse to ban people doing stuff they enjoy. Plus protection of the enormous profits they make out of farming us for taxes and overpriced, ineffective NRT. I've long suspected it, but now with the advent of vaping, they've come right out and given the game away for all to see. They don't need an excuse - they just claim black is white.
The health fascists will only tolerate you using nicotine if it's via an uncomfortable, ineffective, and grossly overpriced patch, horrid gum, or a crappy plastic inhaler that looks like a tampon and tastes of stale tic tacs, but as soon as you look like you're actually enjoying it, they'll froth at the mouth demanding it should be banned, and be smugly condescending about how they're helping us poor addicts - saving us from ourselves (while making a fat, juicy profit from tobacco taxes and overpriced NRT that all the evidence shows doesn't work.)
Any evidence that doesn't support their position will be ignored or flatly denied, and they'll just keep parroting "there's no evidence it's safe/safer" (utter bull****, as Spikey's
excellent recent post demonstrates.)
Even if we could pack our juice full of vitamins and prove that vapers lived longer, healtheir lives than non-vapers, they'd still want it banned. Even if they manage to ban nicotine juice, they'll still want to ban no-nic juice (the no-nic Canadian suppliers are still being hassled.) It looks like we're enjoying it, so it must be banned - that's the bottom line.
There really aren't words to describe the contempt I hold for the cynical anti-vaping coalition that now sees Big Pharma and supposed Public "Health" groups allying themselves with Big Tobacco, happy to stand shoulder to shoulder to ensure they can keep on grabbing a fat slice of
our money while treating us like vermin.
They don't want you to give up smoking - there's no profit in that for anyone. They want you to pay extortionate taxes all your life, accept being treated like a leper to gratify their own bullying instincts, and then die a painful, lingering death while they gleefully tell you that it's all your own fault, and for good measure that you've spent your life damaging the health of everyone around you with second (and now third)-hand smoke.
These scum have blood on their hands.
