Yeah... That's kinda the Rub in Most things. Who Decides?
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Yeah... That's kinda the Rub in Most things. Who Decides?
I've heard that there once was a time when the government gathered the best and the brightest into agencies that could use their specialized knowledge to facilitate policy decisions for the good of the people. What happened?
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Right. They show no signs of easing off at all.
I don't think any anti-cigarette zealots (the FDA is probably full of such people) will ever think reasonably about, or be accepting of, e-cigarettes for one big reason. People who vape generally exhale a vapor that reminds the zealots of seeing smoke exhaled from a real cigarette. The anti's will never be able to mentally get past their hatred for that action/appearance.
One of the most appealing things to a smoker about switching to e-cigarette use -- exhaling a vapor that resembles smoke -- is the very thing that drives the Anti Nicotine and tobacco Zealots (ANTZ) nutz.
The FDA isn't about to ease off on how badly it wants to smash e-cigarettes to smithereens.
This raises another important point about third classification. ANTZ would be hip to this the moment we became public about it (on forums and blogs, and for sure by time we went to try and legislate change). You think they'd just back off and say, 'oh okay, now that it's no longer being considered a tobacco product, we'll go easy on you all?' IMO, they'd go for the kill and argue vehemently with legislators that it ought to be outright banned. Compromise for them would be ban 85% of it and 15% of can maybe be allowed, as long as it is taxed and all that tax money goes to funding anti type propaganda.
They'd probably thank us along the way for this new classification. While we are busy still doing cartwheels from it no longer being under the FDA's jurisdiction.
And when you consider that many ANTZ are supportive of smoking and vaping other stuff, it's dizzying contradiction upon contradiction.
15% would be better than 0.1% but you're right, I do think they would still try to kill the industry. Imagine though if they were actually required to provide proof of what they suggest, instead of falling back on it's tobacco, and we need to protect the children from becoming future tobacco addicts.
It appears they all turned out to be little sneaky conniving weasels.
I should know, I'm a little weasel. I just have to work on the sneaky and conniving part.
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Mike
Actually have been a Couple of Times.
And if it hadn't been for some of the Best and the Brightest working in the Private Sector, I don't think we would have Made it.
Yeah, that was when we had chain-smoking engineers who knew how to get things done.
And just before the Great Society, Medicare and Guns & Butter got a head of steam on.
Johnson got started all Kennedy's programs and started a few of his own. Smoking was allowed in the White House.
Thank goodness for LOX/LH2 and nicotine!
Or we might have called it the cobweb at 64k and still be on 480i.
Good luck.
Or we might have called it the cobweb at 64k and still be on 480i.
Good luck.
Does this look like a hydrogen flame to you?
OK, the upper stages burned LH2. By what got that puppy off the ground was RP1, aka Kerosene.
True dat. I must be down-nic'd.
It is by nic alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of vapor that thoughts acquire speed,
the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning.
It is by nic alone I set my mind in motion.
Good luck.
It is by nic alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of vapor that thoughts acquire speed,
the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning.
It is by nic alone I set my mind in motion.
Good luck.
Yeah, that was when we had chain-smoking engineers who knew how to get things done.
The first engineering department that I worked in (1970s) had ashtrays everywhere. Most of the old timers had a bottle in their desks too ...
They had no computers, no CAD systems, just a slide rule and a pencil. And one cigarette behind the ear, another dangling from the lips ...
The classic story of mid-20th century engineering was the design cycle of the P-51 Mustang ...
North American P-51 Mustang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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