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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]Ms. Toad
(38,635 posts)in Colorado. I suspect the small community you know will quickly be overwhelmed by the interests of the tobacco industry.
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/11/18/big-tobacco-begins-its-takeover-of-the-e-cigarette-market/
And while you may remain a small, well connected, separate group which shuns the tobacco industry - it is the well oiled, massive interests which I have no doubt will dominate the market very quickly - and create new generations of people addicted to nicotine. I have been connected (on the fringes) to the community using e-cigs via some of the independent inventors seeking patents. The rapidly growing public awareness, now fueled by the tobacco industry is not something I see respecting the network you are part of.
It is like a trend only a cool few are aware of that gets discovered and promoted by interests other than those who started it, when those interests are more sophisticated and monied who change the very nature of the trend when they move it into mainstream culture.