I don't think they care what we call them. If it emits a visible vapor and mimmicks smoking, then they are against it. On the other hand If we could figure out a way to adhere them to our skin like the patch, or chew them like nicorette gum, there would be no issue with them.
It was china that named and coined the term electronic cigarette. As it looks right now, I feel that our best and only option is to have them classified as a tobacco product. If not then they will be considered a drug delivery devise and surely banned until when and if the FDA decides they are safe. Like that will ever happen. So in my line of thinking at this point in time, the more these are considered or related to a tobacco product, the better off we will be. If they are considered as such, then we will of course have to deal with those rediculously high tobacco (sin) taxes. Perhaps if they got a piece of the pie, they would be happy and leave us alone.
If they are regulated as a drug delivery device,they would surely be banned, and it would no doubt take many years and even then may not be made legal. And then if they do get accepted, we will need to get a doctors presciption to buy and own one, and big pharma will get thier cut on the prescriptions. But hey look at it on the bright side, at least if this happens, we will be able to write them off as a medical expense. LOL.
Anyway, call them what you will, it will not change anything. Instead, we need to make these changes ourselves, by voting out these politicians who are against us. They have thier own agenda, and recent events just within this past year, proves they are not listening to the will of the people. Come November we must remind them who they work for and clean house.
Until then I will continue to e-Smoke my e-Cig.
P.S. Something else we need to do to appease the people, we need to change the names of the flavors to something that kids don't like.
My favorite flavor is taste like dirt. What is yours?
Argh, I forgot how kids like paying in the dirt. Well, I guess I have to find another aweful tasting flavor then.
(Rant off.)