NYC was the one that started sending people tax bills. They raised the taxes "to discourage people from smoking, the revenue had nothing to do with it" and then noticed the drop in revenue. So they started suing the big mail-order companies to get the names of their buyers.
Like you, one of the things that keeps me from learning to
mod is that even the beginner stuff all assumes I know which end of a soldering iron gets hot.
Make sure you sign the
White House Petition.
They're only half-way there with 2 weeks to go and, apparently, petitions started after October 3 need 25,000 signatures so it will be even harder if they have to do it again.
What really annoys me is the justification for all the restrictions on smoking was that second-hand smoke was dangerous to others. There is no second-hand smoke with PVs. The only thing I can figure out is that the justification is that vapers are ex-smokers and therefore deserve to be discriminated against.