My God, lawmakers are dolts. Got this CASAA alert. Senator Richard Blumenthal of CT, wants to ban "battery operated smoking devices" on flights. NOT smoking, dickhead. Uh, is this because planes have fallen from the sky because batteries are in your carry on? Leaving your CELL PHONE and LAPTOP home, Senator Bluming DickMenthol?
http://cqrcengage.com/casaa/app/wri...h7irQR7DeEHUGZQc90-Kk3aFpwZGn0tXM4iZwbss&lp=0
This is what I wrote to my two Michigan Senators. Feel free to write your own, alter mine, or whatever as you please. But please contact your two U.S. State Senators.
Dear Senator _____________
I am writing today to ask you to oppose SA3547, proposed by Sen. R. Blumenthal of Ct. I am a constituent of yours living in ___________, __.
Banning of battery operated Tobacco Harm Reduction vaping products is a law seeking to address a problem that does not exist. Have these devices harmed anyone or posed any danger to a flight? Do we need laws just for the sake of laws?
My wife, myself, and my adult son have all been smoke free for 4 years, thanks to Electronic cigarettes, and have reduced our nicotine to the equivalent of 2 cigs a day, and no tar or other chemicals!
If the issue is a danger from batteries on a flight, then shouldn't cell phones, laptops, hand held video games, etc. also be banned? Do you want to be among the lawmakers who helped usher in that kind of thinking? Are you willing to leave YOUR laptop and cell phone behind?
There are currently very inexpensive flashlight ends, that will screw onto these portable battery cases, effectively making them flashlights and allowing users to easily skirt this law. It will have no effect on transporting this equipment, it will only serve to further make MORE Americans, scofflaws. To generate more distaste for government intrusion in our lives. With no effect whatsoever. It is a silly proposal that addresses no known problem.
I urge you to oppose this ridiculous amendment, and help get our lawmakers back on track to addressing REAL concerns of Americans.
Thank you and best regards,