Connecticut Passes Crazy Anti-Vaping Bill

[ecigaretteempire]

Connecticut passes bill to treat e-cigarettes as the same as traditional cigarettes
Read all about it here:
http://e-cigaretteempire.blogspot.com/2015/05/connecticut-passes-crazy-anti-vaping.html

 

[BigNasty]

Every bowing and scraping serf in that state should be fucking ASHAMED.
Once were citizens now groveling sheeple. Tough pill to swallow since it was one of the founding states of our nation and freedom.
Lets this be a lesson, those that do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. At least with British rule they had more freedom.

 

[raqball]

Sadly, more of this type of garbage law is coming..

 

[Kent B Marshall]

That didn't take him long
Jan to May
Jan 3rd 2015
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/The-budget-and-more-on-Legislature-s-plate-5992558.php
'Veteran Rep. Bob Godfrey, D-Danbury, wants to look closer into the emerging science and technology of so-called e-cigarettes."

 

[ecigaretteempire]

Sadly, more of this type of garbage law is coming..

A lot of garbage law.... so much more to come

 

[2ndInCommand]

Dudes I live in ct, and if the worst thing that happens is i can't vape indoors, I'm good with that. Didn't touch flavors, didn't tax the shit out of anything, nothing regarding raw nic, which is good since I diy, no internet restrictions or labeling or testing requirements. I mean did you think NOTHING AT ALL WAS GOING TO HAPPEN? While I understand this may be a chipping away tactic, can you rally argue that ecigs should be available to those under eighteen, or that some dbag should be able to vape at the table next to you in a restaurant. Shitty that this will Effect vaping at the local shop, but it could have been so much worse

 

[Pauly Walnuts]

Dudes I live in ct, and if the worst thing that happens is i can't vape indoors, I'm good with that. Didn't touch flavors, didn't tax the shit out of anything, nothing regarding raw nic, which is good since I diy, no internet restrictions or labeling or testing requirements. I mean did you think NOTHING AT ALL WAS GOING TO HAPPEN? While I understand this may be a chipping away tactic, can you rally argue that ecigs should be available to those under eighteen, or that some dbag should be able to vape at the table next to you in a restaurant. Shitty that this will Effect vaping at the local shop, but it could have been so much worse

Just because nothing happened instantly, doesnt mean it wont. Our legal system is slow as molasses, after all.
Laws like this leave the door open for all kinds of bad shit in the future. So when they want to place a heavy tax on vapor products, or restrict what kinds of equipment you can buy, or make private sales of liquid nicotine illegal, they can do that.

 

[Mykline]

Having worked around the government over 40 years I can tell you this is only the first step in that state. In a couple months they will present an amendment to that bill to add more restrictions. With amendments they don't have to go through as many hoops as they do for a full bill. And people don't pay as much attention to them.

 

[Pauly Walnuts]

Having worked around the government over 40 years I can tell you this is only the first step in that state. In a couple months they will present an amendment to that bill to add more restrictions. With amendments they don't have to go through as many hoops as they do for a full bill. And people don't pay as much attention to them.

The time delay is what messes everyone up. People think,'oh wow, that law passed and nothing happened', then they forget about it. The meat and potatoes of tyranny are served when no one is sitting at the table.

 

[LetTheLuckRoll]

so true walnuts so true

 

[BumbaCLot]

My state passed a law basically banning all import and manufacture without a video vault. Casino cornered the market.

 

[5150sick]

The meat and potatoes of tyranny are served when no one is sitting at the table.

This is the most intelligent quote I have seen all day.
Thanks for posting this

 

[creeperfan5236]

Bull fucking shit. I live in Connecticut. This is fucking ridiculous

 

[ecigaretteempire]

I think it's fine. It's regulated the way I think is best for both parties. The only con in my opinion is the no vaping in vape shops. I would want my customers to try the flavors out before buying a 10ml/15ml/30ml.

 

[UncleRJ]

I think it's fine. It's regulated the way I think is best for both parties. The only con in my opinion is the no vaping in vape shops. I would want my customers to try the flavors out before buying a 10ml/15ml/30ml.

Perhaps you will have to remodel your establishment like they did in the speakeasies of the prohibition era.

Have a lookout posted at the end of the block and have a hidden tasting room.

 

[ecigaretteempire]

Perhaps you will have to remodel your establishment like they did in the speakeasies of the prohibition era.

Have a lookout posted at the end of the block and have a hidden tasting room.

it's ridiculous it has to get to that point

 

[Pauly Walnuts]

I think it's fine. It's regulated the way I think is best for both parties. The only con in my opinion is the no vaping in vape shops. I would want my customers to try the flavors out before buying a 10ml/15ml/30ml.

Which parties are you speaking of? These regulations are not meant to help anyone but the state govt, tobacco companies and their direct benefactors.
Even if you agree with everything now and see no downside, the door has been opened to enact things you won't like. If you own a shop I can't imagine how your cool with unmerited govt intervention.
They are not helping us, they are helping themselves at our expense.

 

[Zamazam]

Funny thing how states and state health departments purport to hate Big Tobacco, but those tobacco bonds and taxes tobacco brings in fund those same departments who supposedly oppose tobacco. Big Tobacco has the states over a barrel and they know it. Since more and more people are kicking the smokes and tobacco in general, the states and Big Tobacco are going all out to keep their snouts in the money troft by creating and implementing laws that any sensible person would deem overly restrictive and against freedom of choice. Unfortunately that is exactly what Big Tobacco wants. Either you use their tobacco products, or you use their vape products and pay out the ass for them. These so called do-gooder politicians were bought and paid for before they won a single election. Big Tobacco ain't stupid, they have the money, connections, and pull in the media and government to demonize flowers it they wished.

Bills like the ones that passed in Connecticut are just the first volley in an anti-vaping pro Big Tobacco war. The amendments and regulations will slowly strangle out anyone but Big Tobacco. That's what we need to fight. We have to make the personal political. It's personal to me because I'm smoke free and a hell of of lot healthier than smoking 2 packs a day. Vaping did that for me. Now it's political because the monied elite and gigantic multinationals want to dictate how I live my life without tobacco. I am going to fight them with all I got. It's personal now.