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In reply to the discussion: People who want to ban e-cigs are the useful idiots of Big Tobacco [View all]Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)52. Very true. Brick and mortar e-cig stores don't usually sell the Njoy or Blu brands.
They usually sell batteries, kits, liquid, cartomizers, and accessories and the vast majority of e-cig juices are made either in house or by other smaller distributors.
The stuff you might see at Walgreens or Wal-mart is more likely to be something owned by the large tobacco companies.
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People who want to ban e-cigs are the useful idiots of Big Tobacco [View all]
ButterflyBlood
Mar 2014
OP
There's always a certain type of people who yearn to be the hall monitors of life.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2014
#3
Your argument would apply to regular cigarettes, too. And you lost that long ago. n/t
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#205
maybe we don't want nicotine addicts spewing toxic vapors into our air supply. there is a better way
msongs
Mar 2014
#5
People who vape exclusively don't smoke cigarettes anymore. That's the very definition of
Demit
Mar 2014
#12
Oh, I know that. I just thought he/she/it should be provided with a helpful fact.
Demit
Mar 2014
#26
So not wanting to breathe in nicotine from someone else's mouth makes me a "crazy?"
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#174
Correctimundo. Also let's not forget, it's not the nicotine that killed so many smokers anyway.
Demit
Mar 2014
#184
I'm exposed to perfume, farts, urine, cleaning supply odors, scented candles, air fresheners....
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#189
"sitting in the park puffing an e-cig" If only it were just that. But it isn't and I think you
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#195
Let me get this straight - because the air is polluted we should deliberately pollute it more?
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#200
For the sake of argument, if it were proven that e-cigs produce less pollution than perfume en toto.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#202
According to a French environmental study, a two hour barbecue = 220,000 cigarettes...
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#252
Yeah well you brought up the strawman "puffing in the park." Way to shoot it down!
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#298
"I'll amend that to big fat ninny." Wow, aren't you the clever debater?NT
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#297
Sorry - I don't play Gish Gallop. You gave your citation and it turned out tainted.
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#197
Fine, but don't pretend you know the facts if you don't do your research.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#199
The study you cited was a selective review of the topic. A proper review cites all of the studies,
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#223
To those who see "big tobacco" hiding behind every twig and branch, I suppose so.
beevul
Mar 2014
#295
False Choice. Clean outside air and clean indoor air are not mutually exclusive.
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#308
I enjoy riding my motorcycle/bicycle without a helmet and driving my car without seatbelt
Bandit
Mar 2014
#15
We are talking about people engaging in reckless behavior, ie. putting poison in their body
Bandit
Mar 2014
#18
If you are going to legislate against reckless behavior that affects only that oerson then
Bandit
Mar 2014
#23
I know more than a few adults who switched that prefer fruity/candy e-cigs to tobacco flavors.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#49
Since you are an adult, you can choose between grass clippings, wood chips, and dirt flavors.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#45
I don't have to. I can go the local vape store and buy what flavors I want.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#72
So Big Tobacco which has 1% share of the e-cig market may or may not be targeting youth.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#235
Which is the exact thing which was said about the cigarette advertising decades ago.
Ms. Toad
Mar 2014
#244
I'm not concerned about the adults using it. I'm concerned about teens who haven't
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#74
It requires much more of an investment to start, that only "pays off" when you start
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#83
you need to have burning tobacco to have smoke right? Everyone knows that.... N/T
Tyhanna
Mar 2014
#150
You're being disingenuous here. I'm the 'advocate' who said "Stop calling it smoking,
Demit
Mar 2014
#238
You're also probably not gonna put that stuff in your (non) pipe and smoke it anyway n/t
Ms. Toad
Mar 2014
#306
I have in my hand right now a Rejuve brand individual e-cig. It cost $4.99.
Comrade Grumpy
Mar 2014
#173
Very true. Brick and mortar e-cig stores don't usually sell the Njoy or Blu brands.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#52
DU is home to authoritarians of all stripes. We have drone killing apologists, war-mongerers,
Romulox
Mar 2014
#101
Would you mind telling me how the 'nicotine' used in e-cigarettes is manufactured and by whom.
Tikki
Mar 2014
#63
"swaying the low-information public into thinking vaping is just as bad as smoking."
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#179
One company holds the overwhelming majority of the market share with e cigs.
NCTraveler
Mar 2014
#87
If you can point me to where I said they are selling to children at the counter. nt
NCTraveler
Mar 2014
#136
How would independents without retail shops advertise to children?
Waiting For Everyman
Mar 2014
#152
Well - when people who are addicted to nicotine can satisfy the urge with tomatoes,
Ms. Toad
Mar 2014
#259
Do you know for a fact they included independent sellers in their market research?
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#292
There are three big tobacco e-cig vendors, and their market share does not equal 100%
Ms. Toad
Mar 2014
#293
That's "retail market share" but most of the market is not retail.
Waiting For Everyman
Mar 2014
#261
I have tried to explain this, but my words fall on deaf ears and closed minds.
Liberal Veteran
Mar 2014
#262
I see nothing wrong with e-cigs. If they are risky, then that should be known. I'm fed up with
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#106
Not hall monitors…you are welcome to smoke, vap, toke* in your own hall…just not mine or others.
Tikki
Mar 2014
#111
Please don't use perfume, air fresheners, oven spray, bug spray, drive a car,
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#118
Vap away from those who are young and impressionable, don't fool yourself that you are not addicted
Tikki
Mar 2014
#169
I don't smoke. I don't vape... as I stated up above. I'm just not a jerk.
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#231
Streets, parks, and beaches in one of the most toxically polluted environments in
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#143
Yeah I am getting sick and tired of my office mate spraying oven cleaner around!
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#180
The entire defense of e-cigarettes is that they're not as bad as regular ones.
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2014
#296