NYC Council considers electronic cigarette ban

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21. Here's The Thing...

They cannot make money on them with the business model they are using. The BT companies that are making PVs, make them in the form of a mini-cigarette. They are expensive, disposable, devices that need to be re-charged constantly and their consumables cannot be replenished by the user. Most PV users start with these devices but quickly move on to advanced personal vaporizers or mods. These are much larger and look nothing like a cigarette. They are not disposable. They use larger batteries, larger liquid reservoirs and are able to be re-filled and serviced by the end-user. Once you move on to an APV or mod, the only thing you need to purchase on a regular basis is e-liquid. I spend about $50/mo. on e-liquid as compared to $375/mo. for a pack-and-a-half a day cigarette habit. Now here's the real kicker. Most everything one needs to make their own e-liquid is available at the drug-store and super market. One of the main components in e-liquid is Vegetable Glycerin. VG is used as a skin conditioner and is sold in drug stores. VG can be vaporized by itself or nicotine and/or propylene glycol can be added to it. In that form it is carries a slightly sweet taste and the vapor produced from it is basically odorless. If you want flavors, you just pick up some of your favorites by LorAnn at the super market. At that point we're talking about, maybe, $25/mo. BT cannot compete with that. So, what they do is covertly lobby for regulation of e-cigarettes. Regulations that small vendors, who are the vast majority of the industry, cannot comply with. They leaves BT to stand alone with their overpriced garbage. Said garbage will fail as a business and BT will stop selling it. Leaving... cigarettes...