San Francisco officials advance bill to ban e-cigarettes

Ban e-cigarettes until they're reviewed by governing bodies. Continue to sell combustibles that've already received a negative health review for both those who consume them and those in the general inhalation vicinity by said governing bodies.

Makes sense.

Ban cigarettes or legalize all drugs. The hypocrisy is strong in our drug policy. I personally support legalizing all drugs, or at least decriminalizing them, but I can't stand the fact that cigarettes are legal+easily accessible when weed is federally Schedule 1 drug.

EDIT: Full disclosure: I was a daily cigarette smoker for ~1 year during high school.

The thing people don’t realize is this. E-cigarettes cut into the tax revenue regular cigarettes generate.

Of course SF wants to ban e-cigs as it cuts into the tax generated from cigarettes.

Someone pointed this out to me. Part of the settlement with big tobacco was big tobacco had to run ads to get people to stop smoking, and to allow states and cities to tax tobacco as warranted.

It’s free money for cities and states. If you think they would genuinely ever ban cigarettes you’re gravely mistaken.