exactly

see my post here about the MSA (master settlement agreement)

it's not just tobacco companies, it's the states doing it too because they get a ton of cash based on cigarette SALES... not just taxes.

it's in the states best interest that you don't vape, that you instead go back to smoking death tubes so they can rake in that sweet sweet MSA cash.

they need the money badly because they all took out loans against the money they projected to take in from the MSA... money that "vaporized" (see what i did) as soon as e-cigs started becoming popular.