Quote Originally Posted by jhedrick83 View Post
To a small degree I can understand the argument for regulation of vaping/e-cig products as they are a new industry and who the hell knows what goes into some of them. Full disclosure, I don't vape, I don't plan to ever take it up. How that's related to premium cigars I have no idea. Cole is right, there may be a benefit to the companies having to disclose their processes but it should be left at that. Let consenting adults make their own decisions.
I don't vape either, but my wife does. Some regulation and disclosure would be a good thing but what has been proposed by this would essentially only leave the big corporations left in that industry. And by big corporations, I mean the ones owned by the tobacco companies. There are dozens of small businesses in most cities that make and sell their own custom blends that would suddenly be forced to close shop because they cannot afford the FDA requirements.

Even if a submission was only$5000, with the way it is currently laid out as I understand it they would have to submit each flavor and nicotine level seperately. So for most places thats $45000 per flavor. Bear in mind the only difference between nicotine levels is how much of a nicotine concentrate they add. The local my wife uses has 40 flavors. Thats $1.8 million total, using an absurdly low nuber per submission.

Every aspect of this for cigars and vaping is a combination of cash grab and nanny state bs to appease the angry ignorant.