Name: 格羅弗-諾奎斯特認為抽菸會讓GOP變得很酷（HBO）。 (Grover Norquist Thinks Vaping Will Make The GOP Cool (HBO))
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the FDA announced that they’ll begin
forcing tobacco companies

to lower nicotine levels in cigarettes—

but declined to put any regulations
whatsoever on the vaping industry.

It’s being billed as a push
towards safer nicotine products.

But it’s also a huge boon to the e-cigarette
manufacturers and legions of vapers

who feared the bureaucracy was going to clamp down.

And, according to America’s most
prominent small government advocate,

that grateful constituency
could form a powerful new voting bloc.

— Did you hear the one about how
vapers won a Senate race in 2016?

— That’s Senator Ron Johnson,
a Republican from Wisconsin,

thanking vapors at his election night party.

He wasn’t supposed to win the election,

Johnson actively looked for support from vapers.

Grover Norquist, the president of the
conservative group Americans for Tax Reform,

thinks vaping didn’t just help win Johnson’s race.

He thinks vaping could help remake the
Republican Party into the party of young people.

— So why do you care so much about vaping?

— Because vapers care so much about it
and the government’s screwing with it.

I work with groups and individuals
that are being picked on by the government,

whether they’re raising their taxes,
or pushing around in their business,

— Grover thinks that being strongly pro-vape

can make conservatism the ideology of
choice for freedom-loving young voters.

— And so you see a chance
to sort-of grab some liberals maybe,

by talking about the fact
that Democrats are trying to ban vaping?

— Oh, I have met with lifelong Democrats who said,

“Until this vaping is freed up from government threat,”

“I’m voting with the Republicans because
the D’s just don’t get it on this issue.”

— So do you go into a lot of
vaping shops in your life?

— Okay, well, we’re gonna go in one now.
— Not this one.

— This is like the Apple Store of vaping, it looks like.

— Vaping politics are outside
the mainstream conversation in Washington.

— But Democrats have, for the most part,

stood with anti-smoking groups that say vaping is
a gateway to young people getting hooked on nicotine

The vaping industry, not surprisingly, disagrees.

And its chief lobbyist in Washington, Mike Hogan,

I asked him what he thought of Grover’s theory.

When you find something that saves your life,

So if you see the government threatening to shut down

the thing that you think gave you a new lease on life,

you’re gonna vote a single issue like that.

Democrats have been the leaders
on harm reduction in condom use,

to prevent unwanted pregnancies and AIDS,

but with tobacco, they’re an “abstinence only” party.

The best you can get out of people like Mike Hogan

— Well, it definitely smells good inside
a vape shop, I will say that.

— The big test for the industry
comes in November 2018,

It’ll require all vape manufacturers
to submit scientific data

showing the potential impact of their products
on both vapers and non-vapers.

That takes a lot of time and a lot of money.

And vaping companies say it will cripple their industry.

Grover doesn’t care if people vape or not.

What he cares about is whether vapers vote

and if giving them what they want will
help conservatism appeal to young voters.

The CDC did a big report on vaping in America in 2014.

The average paper was between
18- and 44-years-old, white, and male.

So these are the majority of the electorate
Grover and his supporters are talking about,

and no one can really be sure how much impact
vaping really had on that election in Wisconsin.

A few Wisconsin Democrats told us that,
despite Johnson’s victory night video,

they didn’t hear any buzz about
vaping until after the election.

— I don’t believe the vaping community in Wisconsin

had any real impact of any kind on the U.S. Senate race.

Ron Johnson was probably just checking a box
to take care of some pet issue of Grover Norquist’s.

and he’s a pretty influential guy in Republican circles.

All right, we’re gonna do Belgian waffle for Grover.

— So whether or not Johnson owes his job
to being Senator Vape,

it’s likely we’ll see more Republicans
picking up the mantle.

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