Will a tax kill a booming local e-cigarette industry?
Electronic cigarettes went from obscurity to a $2.5 billion industry in the U.S. in the last five years, and Mount Baker Vapor has followed a similar trajectory. The Bellingham company鈥檚 website went live in August 2011, hit 100 orders three months later, and reached 1,000 orders the next spring. Now, Mount Baker Vapor has more than 130 employees and ships nicotine-infused liquid and other products as far as Australia, Europe and Japan.