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Neo » 23 Jun 2022, 2:39 pm » wrote: ↑

23 Jun 2022, 2:39 pm

I had a fairly successful ecig business but saw this writing on the wall so I exited. I smoked a pack a day for 25 years. Father died of smoking related cancer and I was unable to keep a death bed promise I made to him, I couldn't quit smoking. Ecigs hit the scene a year after his passing and I used them to finally quit my addiction. This was years before vape shops and easy access at gas stations. Spent $5000 ordering a custom bulk supply of the devices from China and learned how to mix ejuice. Ended up selling a few thousand kits at near cost to kick start adoption and save the lives of hopelessly addicted smokers I saw lives saved, I saw hope restored. I saw big tobacco fight like hell to demonize the product as it was costing them souls.

This move isn't surprising. Kids will simply start smoking instead of vaping. Lives will be lost following our loss of freedom. Free to kill yourself if big tobacco makes a profit, not free to use a less harmful alternative.

Yeah, big tobac was NOT HAPPY with the freedom that the vape industry gave smokers. They had sold us candy cigarettes at cost when we were kids, they had advertized to us using characters and scenarios designed to gain our respect for smoking, they had paid studios to show smoking as a sophisticated thing to do. They bought us, they owned us - that was their reality.  And now, along comes the vape industry, **** with their profits! Not only that, but to add insult to injury, the vape industry was all privately held companies and mom-&-pop operations -actual free enterprise, - taking money AWAY from state sponsored socialist wall street and giving it to free enterprise main street.

While all of THIS was going on - wall street ordering their republican shiills to shut down main street for them, - I was on this board arguing with dick-suck repukes about "freedom" - which, to those queers, meant sticking up for people like bill gates, sticking up for big tobac's "right" to "earn" a profit. There are guys on this very board who can still faintly taste warren buffet's cock, bill gates' cock - hell, they STILL have a taste for the hunt brothers' cocks, I'll wager. And of course, ANY jew cock they can put lip to. 

You know how many times I was called a communist for calling out the hustle that you are alluding to? If not for the great purge, I could show you half a hunnerd, easy. 

One great thing about trump is that he inspired an enormous amount of populism among republicans. It's now the **** DEMOCRATS who are wall street's first responders.