You Can Quit Smoking With An E-Cigarette, Just Ignore The Lies. excerpt from link above: To try to classify e-cigarettes in the deeming legislation, for the purpose of replacing declining Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds, is both in bad taste and irresponsible to the American public. To ignore the mountains of evidence is preposterous. It's as if they want to keep cigarettes around instead. ______________________________________________________________________________________
And that's exactly it. How much money does the government make in taxing tobacco? With so many people switching, they are losing that revenue stream. (And, of course, big tobacco is losing out as well.) As for the pharmaceutical industry, the fewer people who smoke, the fewer people will need drugs to keep them well. Follow the money and you learn a lot!