E-cigarettes reignite tobacco wars

Politico ^ | 1/24/14 | ANNA PALMER and MANU RAJU

[SpaceBar]

The Phony Tobacco War

[Doogle]

....RATS can’t get the taxes they get from demonizing tobacco. They can’t control them

[jjsheridan5]

If the tobacco companies want to get involved in e-cigs, they are going to try to get them as regulated as possible. They cannot compete on quality or price, so their only real option is to use an oppressive, big government as their enforcer.

Anyone looking for onerous regulations on electronic cigarettes is the best friend of tobacco companies.

Anyone looking to regulate electronic cigarettes completely out of existence is the best friend of pharmaceutical companies, tax agencies, and possibly casket manufacturers.

[JRandomFreeper]

Government doesn't get any taxes from the tobacco I grow here for my own use.

/johnny

[Iron Munro]

[tomkat]

It's not about tobacco, and never has been.

It's all about the Fourth Reich, and always has been.

[mrsmith]

An OBVIOUS shakedown for campaign contributions.
POLITICO is such a pathetic Dem propaganda organ they actively work to hide the OBVIOUS.

[tomkat]

.. al-most punched the monitor !

[Drango]

The smoking wars are over. Common sense won.

[JRandomFreeper]

Tobacco isn't going away any time soon. This one is untaxed by an out-of-control government.

/johnny

[jespasinthru]

Bullsh**. Three months after Obama was elected to his first term, he jacked up the tobacco tax by 50%. A 3.00 pack of cigarettes now costs 6.00. It destroyed the HaveATampa cigar company and put it out of business, because they could no longer afford the taxes and regulations. And that company had been in business for almost 60 years. Three thousand people who worked for that company lost their jobs. Ironically, most of them were Cuban-American refugees and their descendants.

[jjsheridan5]

The smoking wars are over. Common sense won.

Common sense, not so much. Mindless hysteria, yes. Nannyism, very much so. Neo-fascism, you bet. But common sense, no. Common sense, freedom, and property rights have been the big losers here. The only bigger loser than those three are the anti-smoking nits themselves, who revealed what kind of petty little people they really are.

[1_Rain_Drop]

do you grow it in a pot, or will you be transplanting it later?

[JRandomFreeper]

That one isn't actually supposed to be growing. It's the wrong time of year. A seed wound up in my home-made potting soil, so I let it live. Now it's an experiment to see how well it does in a planter. It makes a pretty house plant. ;)

I will plant my normal crop (many plants) outside in the big garden.

/johnny

[hearthwench]

Ditto.

Debbi

[Lurker]

Ef you.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Common sense would dictate that if tobacco were so bad they would ban it instead of taxing it. The whores are in it for the money, nothing else. Be careful. They may come after something you do next. It’s only common sense.

[boop]

I KNEW I'd find you. Of course you are on the wrong website.

Shouldn't you be PRAISING the smoking of marijuana like good liberals do?

Heck the Prez even says smoking MJ is cool.

Gotta be "consistent" and come out for smoking GOOD leaves.

[wardaddy]

I second that

E cigs are harmless unless you don’t tolerate nicotine or take too much

I detest behavior nazis