I remember puffing a real e-cig ten years ago and thinking "man if this thing catches on, big tobacco is gonna be ......". I also remember thinking big brother won't let this thing go untaxed. I stopped using it because, frankly walking on broken glass barefoot was less painful.
Nearly a decade later I tried it again and hoh boy, vg loaded grape soda e-juice and big clouds……holy cow now thing I can like. Yet it was still largely untaxed. Then pods were showing up everywhere. Hell there was like 200 different kinds available. And famous conservative radio show host Sean Hannity was advertizing this so called Juul contraption.
Soon nic salt was exploding on the scene like an atomic bomb while the pod makers said "perfect nic salt device". At that point I was thinking "hello, nicotine is highly addictive……and it's at every gas station in my town". It was just a matter of time before big brother stepped in and said "we want your money all you nicotine junkies".
Meanwhile bad press began surfacing about "mad clouds", exploding mechs and popcorn lung. Then the scurge of the nations youth began to steal the headlines. Millions of kids vaping in schools across America. The nanny state had seen enough. And Donald Trump prefers the daily news be about Donald Trump yet it was about vaping deaths so Donald Trump announced Donald Trump was going to ban flavors so guess what? The topic became Donald Trump to ban vaping flavors.
The reality is it's pretty scarey to think each time you walk past a smoking area and see folks vaping, one of those vapers might be the next to get sick from whatever is in whatever device that is literally killing people. What can we do as a community to educate fellow vapers on how to avoid the illness? Hell right now nobody really knows what it is in a definitive way, nor where it's coming from.
No ECF aint going nowhere any time soon. Yet as a community we can play a role at ensuring the truth gets out there to fellow vapers who are not forum users, but enjoy a viable alternative to smoking.
And to those I vape I vote crowd…… you think Trump is bad? Wait until the ultra leftist Elizebeth Warren or some other leftist gains the throne. You aint seen nothin'yet.