I think some people are blowing this way out of proportion. I haven't seen much in the news but this:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/23/9605256/e-cig-fda-regulations-us-almost-here
and it's rather vague.
tanks and mods can and are used without nicotine.
The problem is that when they survey minors in high school the question given is, "Have you ever used an e cigarette?" not, "Have you used an e cigarette WITH nicotine?"
Because of the different wording they can then add the votes of minors who used one without nicotine to the rest of the stats to make it appear more minors are using nicotine. I don't support a bunch of 15 year olds cloud chasing however they (most of them at least) are not using nicotine. Because of that it stains the image. People (the mindless sheep who don't study anything before assuming) think vaping = nicotine, they also think that all cloud chasers are minors, thus they think minors are becoming addicted to nicotine because of cloud chasing.
So they want to classify e cigarettes as tobacco products. Perfectly sensible.
Then there was the carcinogenic study. This study basically showed that at lower ohms more carcinogens could be found in the vapor. I think they also tested higher watts and it got the same result of I'm not mistaken. Or maybe it was the other way around and only watts were tested, you could always look into it.
So best case scenario is they limit mods to a specific wattage as the highest and I don't think they can really do much about our ohms. Unless police will now be carrying an ohm reader with their breathalyzer haha.
They want to make ejuice register a list of ingredients. Perfectly reasonable.
They can't classify vg/pg/cotton/any other wick/resistance wire/flavorings/ect as tobacco products because they have legitimate things other than that. However people are worried about nicotine since a lot of us diy ejuice. There's a good chance they will inflate the prices.
The main reason they are doing this, if you ask most of us, is their loss of money from tobacco. Obviously, eventually regulations would have to be put in place and what not however they are only acting now because they are loosing cashflow.
They don't really care about the health concerns, hence more of us are angrier than needed. If they had a legitimate health concern then I wouldn't be mad, however they don't, they just want more damn money.
Basically. They might cripple our watts to 30, make us pay 30 bucks for 16 ml of nicotine, and make vaping in public (blowing clouds at least) not legal. I personally don't go blowing clouds down the road unless nobody is around. I normally just take small puffs off my mod in public.
Personally this will be a huge problem for me. I tried to quit smoking before with one of the little ego vaporizers and couldn't stay on it because the flavors normally tasted like shit and they broke so much. I would use that and smoke maybe 5 cigarettes a day. So I went back to smoking 100%. Then I decided to try again and this time I decided to get really into it as a hobbyist.
From the day I got my first mech mod I haven't touched a cigarette (going on 2.5 months now) since these things are satisfying. I not only get satisfaction from a very wide variety of flavors (that are actually good), but I also I get my nicotine and I get satisfaction from the clouds I chase.
If I can't cloud chase as a hobby then the whole vaping looses its fun and the simple bic and cancer stick look more appealing. If that makes any reasonable sense. Yea it's not the best view but it's mine not everybody's so I'd prefer to not get bashed.
Also correct me on the politics if I'm mistaken anybody.
Sent from my dos terminal.
