Hawaii REMOVES E-cigarettes from Bill

[spydre]

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/24698753/e-cigarettes-exe

In Hawaii, there is a bill up for consideration banning ALL flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes (which the FDA still allows under the flavoring ban.....for now, but research has shown that menthol analogs are worse for you), including flavored e-cig juice. As the linked article says, this would essentially kill e-cig juice sales in Hawaii, because ALL e-cig juices are flavored, as you buy them. But they changed their minds, for now. The article quotes the owner and CEO of the Volcano brand, and also quotes a Type 2 diabetic who vapes 0 nic, and from his quote, seems to vape in order to get the flavors of sweet things, without dealing with the repercussions of EATING these things, other than the comparatively minor blood sugar rise (and yeah, vaping something like a bread pudding would be significantly less increase in blood sugar than EATING bread pudding - mmmmm, bread pudding).

Their goal with e-cigs, and any - hence the ban on flavors - is too keep them from being "desired" by minors. However, the State Senator quoted at the end of the article was wrong - he said there is no law prohibiting minors from purchasing them in their state, when in fact, there is.

The important thing I got out of this article, is becoming acutely aware that e-cigs and analogs, that any laws that apply to e-cigs need to be drafted separately from traditional cigarette legislation.

[joejoevapekins]

They can word it how ever they but the number one reason the feds don't like ecig or juice is because it dose not have that tax stamp on it and they aren't making money off of us anymore. Well not as much. If they can't tax it or make money from it, the said product will be dubbed unsafe and the famous think of the children escape clause

[spydre]

They can word it how ever they but the number one reason the feds don't like ecig or juice is because it dose not have that tax stamp on it and they aren't making money off of us anymore. Well not as much. If they can't tax it or make money from it, the said product will be dubbed unsafe and the famous think of the children escape clause

This wasn't a federal bill. This was a STATE bill, applying only to Hawaii - hence the interview with the owner of Volcano. You know, I don't mind if they end up taxing it. I mean, we paid taxes on the analogs we smoked for YEARS. As a matter of fact, since we live in a border town, we crossed the river into Missouri where the STATE tobacco tax was lower to get analogs cheaper.