Why Do Nanny Staters Hate E-cigarettes?

[2coils]

This is floating around facebook... A blog from The Hill. Its nice to see us finally getting some positive exposure!
Why do nanny-staters hate e-cigarettes? | TheHill

 

[Orb Skewer]

No punches pulled there-good read 2c

 

[AgentAnia]

He gets it! In a nutshell (and with no disrespect to cigar smokers):

Now, the Food and Drug Administration is looking to regulate e-cigarettes in America, and the pervasive influence of the legal drug lobby lingers in this regulator's halls like cheap cigar smoke. You can almost smell Big Pharma in the FDA's curtains, and it is understandable. Its very business depends upon FDA decisions, and if big government controls your business, you better be heavily invested in influencing that decision.

That is the problem with big government. Common-sense things like basic harm reduction through alternative nicotine delivery systems end up becoming threats to those who have developed different options. Rather than fight it out in the marketplace, it is natural for those who invest hundreds of millions of dollars to influence regulators and elected officials to use this necessary expenditure to create an advantage for their product.

This is the government relations return on investment that every company desires.

 

[Vocalek]

Rick Manning has a way with words. I loved his use of the archaic phrase, "get the vapors." How apropos.

 

[Kent C]

Simple and to the point. So many good lines in there but as Agent Ania points out - he gets it. It isn't just "BP" - it's BGov't that sets the stage for anti-free market attacks on the free market. This is why 'Crony Capitalism' is a misnomer - there's no Capitalism involved. This is fascism (as an economic system) pure and simple.

 

[2coils]

Simple and to the point. So many good lines in there but as Agent Ania points out - he gets it. It isn't just "BP" - it's BGov't that sets the stage for anti-free market attacks on the free market. This is why 'Crony Capitalism' is a misnomer - there's no Capitalism involved. This is fascism (as an economic system) pure and simple.

Absolutely!

 

[Uma]

That just made my day!