I'm not really up to snuff on current vaping news , But the last I read here and every where else, was that the vaping community in general, was telling the FDA hey just regulate it as a tobacco product(so they could get there pvs through customs). Tobacco product, Cha Ching$$$$$$$. Open up your wallet boys, and don't step out in public with that pv.
Would you rather go to your doctor for a prescription, and then to the drugstore for some tasteless, overpriced, weak version of a pv from some pharmaceutical company? Did you think the alternative was going to be "Oh, ok, we'll take your word for it, vape away"?
So yes Ohai keep going that route, thats your right to do so. I don't know about your state But here in Wisconsin the tax on tobacco products is ungodly, I'd be willing to bet it's at least 2.00 a pack. I know the last guy raised it at least a 1.50. The signs around here don't say no smoking, they say no tobacco products allowed.
A lot of the signs here actually say "No smoking, No e-cigs" specifically. There are people doing their best to change that, as I'm sure there are in your state.
Besides I was only ranting to explain to the original poster why people especially me might get defensive about calling it a tobacco product. If you had been shafted as hard as Wisconsinites you'd be ticked too.
And I get that, and yet I still don't think he deserves getting pounced on for saying something we all know to be true just because we don't want it to be true. If we could find a way to extract nicotine from something else cost effectively, I'd be thrilled, too. As for your state being worse than others, I'm sure it's bad there, it's bad everywhere there's a smoking ban, and we are the only ones who can change that.
As far as not drinking and driving I respect you for that, I haven't either by the way. Honesty I don't really care where caffeine comes from, it was only an analogy. I thought you were full of crap about the kola nut's but you were correct. I've never heard of a kola nut. Just like Ron White said ,"You can't cure stupid". I tend to agree.
Yeah, well, yesterday you didn't know what a kola nut was.
More information is better than less.
Down in the tobacco belt that argument will probably fly. Here I will just loose my right to vape in public pretty much, and end up paying about double on my,"tobacco Products. So Whatever.
And how much do you think big pharm is going to charge you for your new "medical device"? There is no way in hades I'd rather be paying a pharmaceutical company for my PV. Do you have any idea how long it tastes them to get anything through FDA trials? Our grandchildren wouldn't even be vaping.