What will ECF look like?

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Killjoy1

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ECF won't really change much, even if the worst possible case scenarios become real (which I believe to be unlikely). IIRC, this forum is actually a UK entity, so whatever happens with US legislature won't really affect the forum itself. Even if vaping with nicotine were suddenly banned worldwide, I don't see the community going anywhere, it would perhaps evolve a little to suit the climate is all.

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Obama used to smoke? And quit? Wow... he just got SO much more awesome!x

And that would be A capital NOT from me. Not impressed that he quit. How do you really know. Yea let em come to my house and search it. You'll never know what someone like him is doing so dont pretend you do. We The People Pay em. But we the people will never know what they do. (sorry just IMHO)
 

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Whether he has successfully quit or not, the guy's trying/tried. We all know how hard it is and just because he's your president, it doesn't make him superhuman. I wonder if they have a smoking ban in the White House though...I have awesome images in my head of him having to go outside for a smoke with a SWAT team around him, thinking 'man i've really gotta quit! These guys work so hard!'. What can I say? I like Obama!x
 

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ECF won't change despite corruptly-obtained laws anywhere in the world, including in our home areas of N America and Europe. We have some legal presence in the US and UK and if necessary those aspects will be adjusted as required in light of any issues.

Our job is to support vapers and promote vaping. Even if they made vaping illegal in every possible aspect we would find a way around that. It might be OK for totalitarian states to kill millions of their citizens but we don't think that is a realistic attitude in the modern world.
 

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Members of Congress are Vaping and the President has an ecig, too. I don't see the wisdom in banning a relatively safe alternative to a deadly tobacco product unless the tobacco product is banned first. I do see the lack of heavy taxation being a key factor. Cigarettes will survive only because they represent a $206B payment to the government over the first 25 years (beginning in 1998). They need tobacco money. There is no ecig money at stake if they ban our PV's..

My guess is that the FDA will try regulation of ecigs and some sort of federal tax. If that happens, the prices will go up with the tax, but government will declare us legal and desirable. Right now, we are a safer alternative to something that they make big money on and a threat to the tobacco industry. It's a slippery slope for vapers when BT money has leverage.

NoTobacco.Net » 09 – Even President Obama owns an electronic cigarette!

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ECF won't change despite corruptly-obtained laws anywhere in the world, including in our home areas of N America and Europe. We have some legal presence in the US and UK and if necessary those aspects will be adjusted as required in light of any issues.

Our job is to support vapers and promote vaping. Even if they made vaping illegal in every possible aspect we would find a way around that. It might be OK for totalitarian states to kill millions of their citizens but we don't think that is a realistic attitude in the modern world.



I knew I liked this place! I like how you roll, mate. PIPPIP
 

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ECF won't change despite corruptly-obtained laws anywhere in the world, including in our home areas of N America and Europe. We have some legal presence in the US and UK and if necessary those aspects will be adjusted as required in light of any issues.

Our job is to support vapers and promote vaping. Even if they made vaping illegal in every possible aspect we would find a way around that. It might be OK for totalitarian states to kill millions of their citizens but we don't think that is a realistic attitude in the modern world.

Roly speaks the truth here. Regardless of regulations there are enough of us that we just won't fade away into obscurity.
It doesn't need to change, we'll just need to make sure we vet the folks we let into other maybe less public forums where business may take place. This can still be a hub for vapers.
Yes and no... we will still be required to comply with the law, but as a forum they cannot stop us from talking.

It could become a vapers rights activist forum.
I'd like to think that we are that already, in addition to being a world class resource for starting out and carrying on through the rough patches.

Members of Congress are Vaping and the President has an ecig, too. I don't see the wisdom in banning a relatively safe alternative to a deadly tobacco product unless the tobacco product is banned first. I do see the lack of heavy taxation being a key factor. Cigarettes will survive only because they represent a $206B payment to the government over the first 25 years (beginning in 1998). They need tobacco money. There is no ecig money at stake if they ban them.

My guess is that the FDA will try regulation of ecigs and some sort of federal tax. If that happens, the prices will go up with the tax, but government will declare us legal and desirable. Right now, we are a safer alternative to something that they make big money on and a threat to the tobacco industry. It's a slippery slope for vapers when BT money has leverage.

NoTobacco.Net » 09 – Even President Obama owns an electronic cigarette!


Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Don't count out the financial aspect. Taxation makes much more sense in these trying economic times. Plus whether you like them or not, BLU and BT now have a say in the issue. Whether this is good or bad for the rest of the industry only time will tell.
 
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