Damn government!
So stupid.. .
It’s really the people who own our politicians (and in some cases literally write bills for them) who are the real problem. In this case it’s probably tobacco companies and others with an interest in keeping nicotine users smoking.
If you look into just about any issue that we can’t get fixedor that we get an unnecessary “fix” for, you’ll find that some industry (or even person) has given a lot of money to a lot of politicians to make it happen.
Another good example is online gambling. Online poker exploded in popularity in the early 2000s, and the physical casino industry (especially casino billionaire sheldon adelson) pushed until they got a ban on it.
Government doesn’t have to be bad, but when our “representatives” can be openly bribed they end up representing the people who have most of the money, not the rest of us.
Sorry to see Terp Torch, Lotus, maybe Fluxer Heaters and so many others disappearing for no good reason.