The local e-cigarette shops are basically the backbone for the industry and also for us vapers, who actually like going to the local shops because the people who provide those services are knowledgeable. They know what they're doing and we're able to talk to them one on one.
The big tobacco companies praise these ciga-like type e-cigarettes, but are not very useful for vapers. They are not a very good product. But we trust those particular local stores to provide us with information and to have the technical knowledge to be able to support the vaping industry.
To ban them would be a travesty because then you would basically hand over to big tobacco, and the last thing we want is to be part of big tobacco. We hate big tobacco, and that is the last thing we want.