An untaxed tobacco plant, picture taken a few minutes ago. Cigarette included for scale.
Not only will I not comply with the nanny staters, I will figure out a way around them.
/johnny
Posted on 01/01/2014 8:36:15 AM PST by LD Jackson
No, it's not. That turned out to be just another reckless lie by the safety Nazis. It's unpleasant, though.
Excellent piece. Kind of alarming, to see Oklahoma so concerned about the appearance of an adult smoking a cigarette corrupting the young, whilst selling Plan B abortifacients to 13-year-olds over the counter.
Didn’t we recently get a report that damage from second hand smoke is almost non-existent?
The gov’t loses tax revenue if people switch from heavily taxed tobacco to e-cigs, so they are a danger to gov’t health.
And if we ban things because of the way they look, I might come up with a few suggestions.
Follow the money. Eventually, they will be taxed, and taxed heavily—nicotine will become a controlled substance in the same way that alcohol is a controlled substance. The large tobacco companies will do their best to buy up e-cig producers to maintain their nicotine oligopoly. Whether or not the Marlboro Man mystique transfers to e-cigs remains to be seen.
For me (a non-smoker), these look like a great innovation. If someone wants to be addicted to nicotine, and I don’t have to smell it, great. And, from a societal point of view, if reduction of lung cancer is worthwhile, e-cigs do the job, because there is no tar.
An untaxed tobacco plant, picture taken a few minutes ago. Cigarette included for scale.
Not only will I not comply with the nanny staters, I will figure out a way around them.
/johnny
Our son smoked cigarettes for over ten years. He tried medication, gum, candy, patches but nothing worked. Then he went to e-cigarettes and it works. He doesn’t smell like cigarettes anymore. His health is better. So I’m a big fan.
I suspect the large tobacco companies will become crony capitalists and attempt to rely on restrictions of new products based on the notion they are “untested and unproven” in order to shut out competition from e cigarettes. Which is a damn shame because e cigarettes are helping people’s lives and genuine tobacco, as much as we rightfully protest the out of control regulations on it, has wrecked lives just as much as alcohol and, yes, marijuana.
“Didn’t we recently get a report that damage from second hand smoke is almost non-existent?”
Pretty close. We got an exhaustive study that showed that second hand smoke did not increase the chances of lung cancer.
The whole “second hand smoke” nonsense is almost as much scientific malpractice as anthropogenic global warming.
My son just bought a place with a little land, so I could probably try growing some tobacco. What are the best growing conditions for growing tobacco?
Every time I tell someone that second hand smoke has never been proven harmful, they look at me as though I have three eyes and horns.
Whatever it is, it most definitely is NOT the federal government’s business.
Can you make a salad with green tobacco leaves? Have a healthy lunch and get that nicotine buzz!!!
/johnny
Coming up on one year since I switched to e-cigarettes. I have noticed significant positive changes to my health, mostly respitory and nasal congestion. The advantages are huge, odor, convenience, cleanliness and cost. A five box cartridge costs me 10.00 and lasts for about six days. I have read that over twelve million people have switched to vapors from cigarettes. Hell yes the gubmint finds something wrong with them.........they are losing huge tax revenue.
I’ve been using “e” for nearly two years....swear by ‘em.....and all our docs have zero resistance to our using.
Hell yes the gubmint finds something wrong with them.........they are losing huge tax revenue.
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Bingo!
Remember Homer Simpson and his genetically engineered food hybrid....Tomacco? (Tomatoes and tobacco)
Everyone in town was hooked.
That’s what I was thinking too.
That’s what I was thinking too.
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