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1 Floral Giraffe  Tue, Mar 4, 2014 4:58:27pm

I think they’re going to get Federally regulated like cigarettes, very soon. Yes, you can get “vape” that is nicotine free, but most of it contains nicotine.

2 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Mar 4, 2014 5:38:35pm

re: #1 Floral Giraffe

Yep. They can be used to vaporize relatively safe, non-addictive honey oil (marijuana extract), and even DMT, but are mostly used to deliver the highly addictive drug nicotine.

That said, they should need to prove harm to 2nd hand vapers before enacting a ban like the one documented in the article, and ecigs do not create a butt problem at the beach, so the beach ban seems misguided.

3 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 7, 2014 4:31:32am

re: #2 No Country For Old Haters

Yep. They can be used to vaporize relatively safe, non-addictive honey oil (marijuana extract), and even DMT, but are mostly used to deliver the highly addictive drug nicotine.

That said, they should need to prove harm to 2nd hand vapers before enacting a ban like the one documented in the article, and ecigs do not create a butt problem at the beach, so the beach ban seems misguided.

The thing is that its not really about the science, bans like this are being driven by activists who basically go “SMOKING?! ZOMG!!1”.

Part of the problem is that anti-smoking activists are the victims of their own success. Having successfully banned indoor non-residential smoking in the great majority of the country and greatly restricted outdoor smoking as well, they don’t have too many targets left (banning tobacco outright is a non-starter because states need the money taxes on it bring in). So going after e-cigs is the activists way to stay relevant. This is simply the way things go with activist groups: They don’t disband when they get what they want, instead their leaders find new targets to maintain their positions of influence.


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