[Ignatz]

The war on vaping is about control and tax revenue, period.
To the Left, “regulation” always means “taxation”. Notice that they have never called for for tobacco to be outlawed, just “regulated”.

Here are a few other sources of demon nicotine that must, if there were such a thing as Left-wing logic and consistency, be “regulated”:
http://www.nejm.org/action/showImage?doi=10.1056%2FNEJM199308053290619&iid=t01

[tacticalogic]

To the Left, “regulation” always means “taxation”.

To the entrenched bureaucracy, it means "More money and people for me and my department."

"Unmet needs" is the holy grail of the beltway.