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Title: California to hold hearing on nicotine vaporizer ban
Post by: Raize on April 02, 2013, 03:08:46 AM
Anyone from Sacramento that plans to go or knows an avid e-smoker that plans to attend?
http://blog.casaa.org/2013/03/call-to-action-california-e-cigarette.html


Title: Re: California to hold hearing on nicotine vaporizer ban
Post by: BIGMERVE on April 02, 2013, 03:17:23 AM
This is silly. Why would they ban something that causes no harm to public and doesn't give off any smells?


Title: Re: California to hold hearing on nicotine vaporizer ban
Post by: myrkul on April 02, 2013, 03:58:50 AM
This is silly. Why would they ban something that causes no harm to public and doesn't give off any smells?

Lobbyist money. Big Tobacco is smart. They know that if they can get California to ban it, other states will follow.

But yeah. It's ridiculous.


Title: Re: California to hold hearing on nicotine vaporizer ban
Post by: BIGMERVE on April 02, 2013, 04:44:07 AM
This is silly. Why would they ban something that causes no harm to public and doesn't give off any smells?

Lobbyist money. Big Tobacco is smart. They know that if they can get California to ban it, other states will follow.

But yeah. It's ridiculous.

They should just make their own e-cigs, capitalize on both markets instead of just fighting it with millions and millions of lobbying dollars.


Title: Re: California to hold hearing on nicotine vaporizer ban
Post by: myrkul on April 02, 2013, 04:47:54 AM
This is silly. Why would they ban something that causes no harm to public and doesn't give off any smells?

Lobbyist money. Big Tobacco is smart. They know that if they can get California to ban it, other states will follow.

But yeah. It's ridiculous.

They should just make their own e-cigs, capitalize on both markets instead of just fighting it with millions and millions of lobbying dollars.

Sad thing is, it's actually cheaper to throw some lobbying dollars at a problem than it would be to retool to make ecigs.


Title: Re: California to hold hearing on nicotine vaporizer ban
Post by: chrisrico on April 02, 2013, 04:52:23 AM
They should just make their own e-cigs, capitalize on both markets instead of just fighting it with millions and millions of lobbying dollars.

Almost everyone knows what economies of scale are, but not many people know that there are also diseconomies of scale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseconomies_of_scale#Inertia_.28unwillingness_to_change.29).


Title: Re: California to hold hearing on nicotine vaporizer ban
Post by: Mike Christ on April 02, 2013, 11:38:19 AM
And here is a perfect example of why our system of governance falls flat on its face.  Government: because screw the market, I can win by throwing money at daddy.