Intuit (the creators of Quickbooks) recently created this infographic to show exactly how much money is being made from the sales of tobacco in each state.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that the states making the most money are the ones most aggressively pursuing anti electronic cigarette legislation? I sure don’t!
As electronic cigarettes become more popular, causing people to buy fewer of the traditional analog death sticks, the states will lose more and more money.
By passing laws against electric cigarettes, they can continue to protect their blood money.
As incredible it may seem, I actually sat through this entire video, and the only thing worse than the poor quality of the video itself, was the poor quality of the legislature in New York.
Let me get this straight, NOT ONE single legislator voted against this?
Some of them didn’t even know what an electric cigarette was, and none of them seemed to have any interest in whether what this woman was saying is true or not.
Just like California senate bill 400, it looks like the anti-electric smoking lobby has been stopped for now in Virginia, not because a bill was being passed to ban them, but because over zealous anti-smoking lunatics tried to argue that electric cigarettes actually violated the non-smoking ban.
According to the Washington Post, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, has ruled that electric cigarettes do *not* violate the state’s smoking ban. Hooray!
Unfortunately, it was necessary for him to “rule” because the opinion was requested by Del. Chris Peace. He said that a constituent called him after she was told by the Virginia Department of Health that the devices do violate the state’s smoking ban.
Back in July, Oregon became the first state to sort of “ban” the sale of electronic cigarettes, after this report was released.
Within days of that report, the state government here in Oregon acted quickly and heroically to protect us, pulling a couple of products off the shelf.
The local TV and radio news was busy for two days talking about Oregon’s supposed “banning” of electric cigarettes.
This turned out to not be true, and I spoke to the Oregon DOJ about their Ecig decision, but the damage was done, and the industry took a black eye here in Oregon.
In a last minute stay of execution, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed California Senate Bill 400, which among other things, would have made the sale of ALL electronic cigarettes in California illegal to anyone.
In a message regarding the veto to members of the California State Senate he sent the following:
To the Members of the California State Senate:
I am returning Senate Bill 400 without my signature.
While I support restricting access of electronic cigarettes to children under the age of 18, I cannot sign a measure that also declares them a federally regulated drug when the matter is currently being decided through pending litigation.
Oregon has not banned the sale of electronic cigarettes, a.k.a smokeless cigarettes!
At least, that’s my position, and I’m making efforts to clarify that officially.
Based on news stories that appeared on our local television news, and subsequent reprints of an AP article and other newssources all over the web, people are mis-reporting the information.
What does it say?
The way I read the article, only two stores were affected in the entire state, and only one brand of the product.
Listen for yourself to the audio file of the FDA’s press conference right here.
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We found this file while poking around on the FDA site, and in the beginning, they say it’s coming down in a few days… huh? Isn’t it a matter of public record? Well it is now…
If you’ve been reading any of the biased and corrupt media reporting, they make it sound like the FDA has determined that electric cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
Yesterday was not a good day for the electric cigarette industry in the United States, as the news media seems to be incorrectly reporting that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has officially declared the electric cigarette harmful!
Reading the news stories, like this one at CNN offer us very little actual “news” or information about what’s actually in this FDA report, and they give no way to find out any more information. It’s an editorial, disguised as news!
They say claim this, for example -
The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,” said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.
“It’s a bill that’s been more than 10 years in the making — supported by Republicans and Democrats, President Obama and, more surprisingly, by the nation’s largest tobacco company — Philip Morris.”
to protect us, pulling a couple of products off the shelf.
In a last minute stay of execution, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed California Senate Bill 400, which among other things, would have made the sale of ALL electronic cigarettes in California illegal to anyone.
