I chewed a can of chew a day for roughly 20 years. I started the e-cig movement just a few days ago... Friday to be exact. I don't know why I resisted the movement as long as I did, for my mother in law is an employee at a head shop that sells e-cigs... I guess I was just too stupid to know better.
So far, it's been three days. I'm loving every moment of the change. It's much cleaner and much more fun. I vape the Deluxe E-Cig liquid usually, since that's what I can buy.
Tonight I mixed up a tobacco, menthol, cigar blend that is treating me alright!
I chewed a can of chew a day for roughly 20 years. I started the e-cig movement just a few days ago... Friday to be exact. I don't know why I resisted the movement as long as I did, for my mother in law is an employee at a head shop that sells e-cigs... I guess I was just too stupid to know better.
So far, it's been three days. I'm loving every moment of the change. It's much cleaner and much more fun. I vape the Deluxe E-Cig liquid usually, since that's what I can buy.
Tonight I mixed up a tobacco, menthol, cigar blend that is treating me alright!
Big Tobacco controls a lot of this, and until they either
1. Control the sale of vaping gear and liquids and profit from it
2. Get it completely banned
They will spend millions to push us back toward their products.
Sad but true, and we live in anything but a free country.
Going to not get long winded about this, but between 2002 and 2010 I earned about 30% of my annual income as an online poker pro. I played anywhere from 2000-2500 tournaments a month and made and extra $25-$30k per year from such. In 2006 Senator Bill Frist and a key group of senators stuffed a non-debated non-discussed clause (UIGEA Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) into a "Safe Ports Bill" that they passed at midnight on the last day of the session. For several years everything went on as normal until what we deem as "Black Friday" then the US DOJ decided to freeze them assets of most major poker rooms. They immediately stopped allowing US players and made it difficult to cash out on some sites and impossible on others. It was a travesty, since online poker has absolutely 0 to do with "safe ports" and no one could withstand in an election year to have a vote against safe ports on their voting record. I lost about $5500 total in the debacle, and worse than that no longer had that income stream. I paid my taxes, reported all winnings offset by losses. It hurts to pay an insane amount of taxes, about 34% adjusted for my bracket, and have them tell me what I can and cannot do with the money I earn.
Of course I can go over to the convenience store across the street and buy lottery tickets with every penny I have on pure chance, but a game of skill is too harmful. I could stand there and scratch them off with all the others that go the day they get their government check and hang out until all my money is gone just like they do. But I cannot play online poker with the taxed income I legally earned in the privacy of my own home. I have to go to a casino, away from my family, and sit bored getting 15-20 hands per hour where online it was more like 350-400 hands an hour playing 12-16 tables.
Bottom line is when someone refers to this as a free country, I have to laugh a little inside. It is nothing close to free.
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