What a great motivation!

[JoeD4]

Well, in just a few months of reading the weak, unscientific, and unsubstantiated claims touting the "evils" of E-cigs, it is plain to see that it is about Big tobacco, politicians, and the amounts of money that pass back and forth between the two. It is quite clear to me now that government WANTS me to smoke! They want the tax revenue. They want my healthcare money when cigs make me sick. Maybe it's even some sick form of population control. If it was all about the health of current and future generations then cigarettes would have been banned a long time ago. This situation has made me more angry and more determined than I have ever been.

This flagrant abuse of power and willingness to kill millions each year just so the cash can flow is nothing short of evil. I will not sacrifice my health or my life so that the blood money can pile up. To me, this is the ULTIMATE (and somewhat ironic) motivation to not smoke. I started smoking out of rebellion, now I will stop smoking out of rebellion. I will continue vaping with plans to gradually wean off of the nicotine BUT, should they be banned in my state before I am done, then I WILL quit nicotine the moment I vape my last drop of e-liquid. I will not buy cigarettes, cigars, snuff, snus, patches, gum, lozenges, or any other "government approved" tobacco or nicotine product. I WILL do it cold turkey. I may suffer from withdrawal. I will wear my withdrawal as a badge of pride. I will never voluntarily give another cent of my hard earned money to those who would rather me buy their product than allow me a safer alternative.

Canna, canna get a witness?

 

[quakereject]

Not sure if they would have banned them, but more or less actually looked for a safer delivery system. While tax revenue on products isn't necessarily as evil as I sometimes portray it to be... suppressing new, safer products that actually work, is what the major problem with it is, especially when the endgame is to find a way to exploit it in house.

Flat out banning something is asking for people to do it imo, and the vaping community will find a way, especially when most of those ways already exist save a few pieces that would still need to be either machined or manufactured in some fashion. Which is why an all out ban on cigarettes would have never worked, just like prohibition.

Damn, I just thought about it.. to vape in public places we'll need Vape-Easy's! It'll be all like secret words and handshakes and stuff, and the G-man comin down on us raiding the place and confiscating PV's.

 

[JoeD4]

Yeah, we'll have "vape-easy's" and pin striped suits, and tommy guns, and flappers and flivers! We can all do the charleston and drink bathtub gin! lol