Don't worry, zachery, you're not alone! Nobody can understand notices like this, really. They're written in an artificial language called "government gobbledegook," which evolved precisely because government officials and drones don't want to be understood, really... (There's also a dialect of government goddledegook used by bureaucrats who are so deeply sunk into details and making sure every possible contingency is covered that they aren't able to express themselves in any understandable way.)
PS: 2coils has given you, and us all, some very good advice!
Thank you for reaffirming I am not alone...Its just confusing, I have no clue what it says and what I have learned of the history of the FDA in our kool-aid, well, I guess I just have this skewed view of this , here is my looking glass if you will...I've been looking at this for an hour trying to edit my responce so it won't get deleted, banned, or make me sound like a conspiracy nut, because I am not...just after living and studying a bit of history and what not abroad I have a slighty different perspective than I used too. I am going to go on a little long winded rant because I have these questions and this seems like the best place to ask them...I am trying to make a serious issue more understandable to my level and might go off topic a bit, but I just have questions and sometimes I kinda see the answers and sometimes I am more confused...so please just skip this one over and ignore it but don't ban it...I am honestly curious to know what other people think..
I had to learn not just German, But Swiss German (there is a BIG diference) in like 0 seconds flat when I was there working out the details of my separation from my wife to just survive...and I never will be fluent, I am sure of that. But, except for their legal "gobbledygook"I had to work threw to get my visa, the language is easier to understand than this...I swear who ever came up with this legal mumbo jumbo deserves to go to "that special level of hell that is reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the movie theater..." The founding fathers came here running, kicking, and screaming away from being persecuted for the desire for religious freedom...and they wanted to live where they could be free...they weren't harming anyone....and the constitution was born...and freedom from taxation without representations....i know I am speaking very broadly but it feels like it is happening again. When Washington State alone privatized liquor the sintax was like 3 or 4 bucks a liter on top of sales and other taxes and it wasn't low before that....our cigarette sintax is up to 30.85 for a carton, and that's not counting other taxes....I just feel like this is a way for the goverment to pinch us for taxes....my history is a little fuzzy but they banned tobacco once before and it caused violent mob style retaliation and we all know about liquor prohibitions... I just get this feeling they're going to try to ban all APV's again while they can figure out how to regulate and tax them, and then hand them over to Tobacco and Pharma so everyone's revenue is restored and life can go on status quo. And everyone wins but us...the people that actually use the products they're trying to regulate and ban.
From my limited understanding all I see is the FDA, The Feds, Big Tobacco, and Big Pharma are starting to loose serious money to this "e-cigarette thing" and after the FDA tried to seize and then ban then the first time and lost on both counts they're coming back hurt and looking for revenge and trying to pinch us again since they couldn't get their way the first times. I wish I could prove there is pressure from the Fed's and Big Pharma and Tobacco to get revenue back up by pinching us... but given how long it took them to even admit cigarettes were harmful to people I doubt it will ever happen. So can I prove it? No...is it conspiracy theory type stuff? Yes...but it makes more sense to me than this "gobbledygook" I am reading here. If they can't tax it we can't have it...sound about right? How can they have to put deeming regulations and bans on all "novelty tobacco items" but can also exempt the regulations as see'd fit? My brain hurts..
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Ok...I know that was a little
so before you throw the
book at me please tell me I am not far off the mark? because my little joke "disclaimer" feels like what the government is doing to us now and some times on the local level the reason for it is simply " I just don't like it, it looks like smoke so it must be bad like smoke and I don't want it anywhere in the same breathing atmosphere as me."
It just frusterates me...I am never sure which thread I can even post things like this in without being deleted and getting a slap on the wrist...I don't want to say the wrong thing in the wrong place but if we can speak our mind, even if it dances around a subject instead of straight for it, how can I get someone outside of here to listen to me?
