Yup, it was all about the taxes. If you look at basically any study on vapes that has come out of the US, the methodology is designed to produce negative results.

If the FDA cared about public health they would have actually regulated the market, instead of guaranteeing the market was flooded by sketchy Chinese disposables which generate a shit ton of dangerous and hazardous waste.

They would also ban cigarettes if they actually cared.

They need to side with the companies on this. The FDA fucked things up royally to crush the industry.

Edit: if anyone wants to know how they did this, it’s because of the Premarket Tobacco Product Applicatios (PMTA) process.

Basically, for every single SKU you made, you had to submit the application which costs about $250k minimum. This means that if you have a line of 10 flavors in 4 different nicotine strengths, you’d need 40 applications. Their guidelines for the applications were also super vague, basically guaranteeing they could deny all of them.

And that’s just the most egregious thing they did. They also labeled anything relating to vaping a tobacco product, including wire and batteries. Which would also be subject to the PMTA process.

Yeah, in the US they’d probably charge you $500, minimum.

My boss is awesome. He realizes that his job is mostly to make sure we’re able to do our jobs effectively. It really feels like I’m working with him, not for him, which is how it should be.

Bold of you to assume it’ll get better

No one has mentioned magazines or newspapers yet.

Nah, those guys are above the law. It’s not like anything happened the hundreds of other times the government has been caught violating the constitution or acting illegally.

Yeah, things will have to get worse, but when there’s no peaceful means of fixing the problem…

I’m not advocating for violence, I can just recognize that they’re guaranteeing it. A much better resolution would be to amend the constitution to allow votes of no confidence, but that’ll never happen.

Unfortunately it’ll likely get thrown out since the SC ruled that the police don’t have any obligation to protect people.

As a Texan, this is very surprising. Great job, Grand Jury.

Things will have to get a lot worse before people rise up, but it’ll happen eventually.

There’s a quota, so unless you have a few hundred million dollars laying around, it’s a futile fight.

And it actually cleans between your teeth

Every day it becomes more of a prophecy.

Slavery wasn’t used on the original pyramids.

It’s a CYA thing.

A hate crime is when the crime intentionally targets a specific demographic.

Look into the servarr suite. I just add what I want and it finds and downloads it for me.

Those are also fun.

You usually want high caliber rifles with boars, but I guess slugs would be effective.