Remember that one kid you knew back in the day who couldn’t
tell the truth about anything? The kid who always one upped you with some
ridiculously impossible story? Well, that kid got elected to office in
Washington, and he doesn’t want you to vape. Worse, he’s gonna tell huge lies,
so that he can pass laws making it harder to quit smoking. Since that’s a tough
sell, he’s hiding his growing nose and saying he’s doing it “for the children.”
Let’s call this clown Vape Denier, or “VD” for short.
Over the next few weeks I’m going to write a series of blogs
breaking down VD’s Bill (HB 1645 and companion SB 5573) into bite size pieces
of his dishonesty and absurdity. Let’s start with the “Findings”, which are the
statements of “facts” that justify a new or altered law.
VD and his cohorts “found” that the use of vaping devices by
cigarette smoking adults has “risen at an alarming rate”. So, a massive group
of people running away from using cancer causing tobacco is alarming? Um, okay,
VD, you’re an idiot. More and more studies are confirming what every Vaper and
vape shop owner already knows: vaping is a better alternative to cigarettes and
can help people quit
smoking altogether.
Unfortunately, VD lives in an alternate universe where facts
matter less than bogus “Findings”, so the proposed Bill glosses over the number
of lives saved when smokers switched to vaping. VD instead “Finds” that
nicotine is horrible for developing babies, so we should eliminate an
alternative to tobacco and make their mothers consume 1,000 chemicals including
dozens of carcinogens with their nicotine. VD should “find” a way to remove his
head from wherever he misplaced it while writing this Bill.
VD doesn’t live in our world. He’s so blinded by his
irrational fear of vaping that he would send people back to smoking cigarettes.
That’s the real world. But VD doesn’t care how the real world works. And VD
doesn’t care if his failed policies move smokers back to coughing, feeling
winded and dying of cancer.
Our next visit together will look at Vaping as a gateway to
cigarettes as powerful as heroin or cocaine.
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