Click the pic to read the testimonies of people actually USING the ecigarette.
Posted on 09/17/2009 11:24:37 PM PDT by Bokababe
The bill in California, SB400, Has Passed - The right to Vape (inhale from a non-combustible e-cig) is slipping away. California has passed a bill (although not yet signed into law) that will ban the sale of Electronic Cigarette in California.
What began as a bill to "prohibit the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors", morphed into a bill that prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes to anyone until or unless the FDA approves them. And the legislature passed SB400 while we were focused on the 9/11 commemorations.
The vote was AYES
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Aanestad Alquist Cedillo Corbett Correa DeSaulnier Ducheny Florez Hancock Kehoe Leno Liu Lowenthal Maldonado Negrete McLeod Oropeza Pavley Price Romero Simitian Steinberg Wiggins Wolk Yee
NOES
Ashburn Benoit Calderon Cogdill Cox Denham Dutton Harman Hollingsworth Huff Runner Strickland Walters Wyland
ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING *********************************
Padilla Wright
California lawmakers are so addicted to the tax dollars generated by cigarette taxes that they are willing to throw untaxed e-cig users under a bus -- even though e-cigs have virtually the same ingredients as all the nicotine replacement products now freely sold over the counter. The difference is that this delivery system really works in getting people to quit smoking cigarettes, and it doesn't have the ingredients that kill you -- but Big Pharma doesn't own the rights.
This bill also defers a State issue to the power of the Federal Government.
The bill isn't law until Governor Schwarzenegger signs it. Please call or write his office at:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger State Capitol Building Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: 916-445-2841 Fax: 916-558-3160 ( new number )
District Offices:
Fresno Office 2550 Mariposa Mall #3013 Fresno, CA 93721 Phone: 559-477-1804 Fax: 559-445-5328
Los Angeles Office 300 South Spring Street Suite 16701 Los Angeles, CA 90013 Phone: 213-897-0322 Fax: 213-897-0319
Riverside Office 3737 Main Street #201 Riverside, CA 92501 Phone: 951-680-6860 Fax: 951-680-6863
San Diego Office 1350 Front Street Suite 6054 San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619-525-4641 Fax: 619-525-4640
San Francisco Office 455 Golden Gate Avenue Suite 14000 San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone: 415-703-2218 Fax: 415-703-2803
Washington D.C. Office 134 Hall of the States 444 North Capitol Street NW Washington D.C. 20001 Phone: 202-624-5270 Fax: 202-624-5280
BASTARDS!!!
They’re condemning millions to die for their tax revenues!
goddamn the pusherman!
Excellent.
Thousands who have quit smoking cigarettes using e-cigs, will thank you -- and so will anyone who believe that issues like this shouldn't be made by the Feds!
I can see it now, illegal black market of electronic cigarettes...and cops stopping people to see if their cigs are real or battery powered.
lol...
“BASTARDS”
Like ACORN, Van Jones, Wright, Ayres... - we need to shine a bright spotlight on these disgusting roaches and stomp them out as they scatter.
You know --there was a time when I would have laughed at that as way too kooky for real life.
But not anymore! (Scroll down a few inches on the website)
God save us from the Nanny Statists. They’re going to “protect” us to death. For our own good, of course.
Do they really work to stop smoking?
I can sort of believe it. I used a pipe to tapper off my smoking habit over a two year period of time. By the time I made my final assault using Chantix, I was only barely smoking.
I quit overnight, and I never even expected to.
Please click the pic that I just posted above, and read other’s words on this.
After over thirty years of smoking I have not had a real cig since May. I learned about vaping from a post on FR and after they raised taxes I decided I would not pay them. I ordered more then enough equipment and liquid to last for 8-9 months. It works and I am tapering off the nicotine level in the juice to almost zero.
California can’t lose any more cigarette tax money, heck, they just raised the state tax - they are looking to keep the smoker base stable (and probably would LOVE a bump in revenue - more smokers)
Vapers are sin-tax cheats./huge sarc but true to the gov’t...
If they help one to stop smoking and it appears that they do then no, for many struggling smokers, there is no more pressing issue.
Congratulations!
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