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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]pnwmom
(110,260 posts)to smoke in quantity. The more you smoke the lower the price per e-cig. That's not a benefit, unless you're pushing an addiction.
Any reduction in price will disappear as soon as states begin to tax them as they do cigarettes.
Nicotine is one of the most highly addictive substances known, that is thought to have particularly bad consequences to a developing brain. If you cared about kids then you would encourage your state to ban the selling to children. As it stands now, a 10 year old could buy an e-cig in many states. I have just as much right to care about children getting addicted to nicotine as I do about them not getting enough to eat or not having an education. The health of children is important to society as a whole. As a progressive, I would think you would agree with that.