It's Time To Get Angry And Active

“Requiring people to standup in public for their political acts fosters civic courage.”
  -Justice Antonin Scallia

Our community could really use some civic courage right about now… but even more so, we could use some give-a-shit. Courage will have to wait until we find a solution to the rampant apathy in the vaping community.

Sure, a lot of people are saying that all the restrictions and regulations can’t stop them from vaping. They’ll make their own e-liquid, they’ll vape at home. Sure, you can do that, but is that really the world you want to live in? a world where vaping is shamed rather than seen as a pathway away from combustible tobacco, away from nicotine addiction, and out from under the thumb of big tobacco? But before you answer, consider the real issue, because it isn’t whether or not you and I can vape, it’s whether or not the option is even available for the millions of other smokers.

It’s time to get angry! It’s time to get up and DO something. Something more than posting anonymous comments on Facebook and Reddit. It’s time to get together, to be seen, to yell and scream and get our voices heard. It’s time to attend city council meetings and state senate meetings and get involved everywhere that the issue is brought up.

And we need everyone involved. We can’t afford for any of us to think that we can sit back on the sidelines and watch other fight the fight for us. Why? Because all of us have lives, we have rents and mortgages, and car payments. We have children to care for and appointments to keep and jobs to go to. In other words, none of us can attend every hearing. So in order to have a presence we need everyone to get mad and get active, because right now we, as a community, are acting like a bunch of angry sullen teenagers… well, its time we grow up, and act like angry adults!