People who want to ban e-cigs are the useful idiots of Big Tobacco

[Liberal Veteran]

262. I have tried to explain this, but my words fall on deaf ears and closed minds.

At best, railing against e-cigs and transferring prejudices from tobacco to them will serve big tobacco.

My fear is that their good intent will give big tobacco companies exactly what they need to eliminate the competition of independent suppliers through legislation. As it is now, nearly all independent distributors will tell you exactly what they use to make e-liquid.

If people keep trying to treat e-cigs the same as cigarettes they will likely put an expensive regulatory burden on all distributors and which side has the capital to meet the demands of that kind of legislation: Big tobacco or the brick and mortar stores?


And which side is more likely to claim their particular brand is subject to proprietary trade secrets?

Remember when a federal judge struck down the Disclosure Act that would have required cigarette manufacturers to disclose to the public every ingredient they used?

"Obviously, we're pleased with the decision because it protects the company's proprietary interest," said Mike Pfeil, a Philip Morris spokesman.