Banning anything often has the unintended side effect of handing a new product over to the black market. If the drug cartels are typical, people in that new black market will commit horrific crimes in order to seize and maintain control over it. To me, that's a greater evil than allowing people to use a currently legal product.
It seems to me that we have to distinguish between the use of vaping to replace cigarettes, hopefully leading to getting off of tobacco/nicotine all together, and vaping being an easy way to get hooked on nicotine. How can one be allowed and even encouraged while the other is somehow discouraged?
The vapes have not been around long enough for us to know exactly what damage they cause. More and more of them are coming out of China, who does not carry about toxic products. I'm not a controlling person, but I do support banning the flavored ones, which are what got the youngest interested. Our youngest has gotten hooked and it is impossible to get him to stop.
Ironically, the country had all but eradicated cigarette smoking by stigmatizing it. Then vapes come along and hook a whole new generation. They are bad, sorry.
Banning anything often has the unintended side effect of handing a new product over to the black market. If the drug cartels are typical, people in that new black market will commit horrific crimes in order to seize and maintain control over it. To me, that's a greater evil than allowing people to use a currently legal product.
I used vaping in 2011 to quit smoking cigarettes. It helped then and then I quit vaping after that.
It seems to me that we have to distinguish between the use of vaping to replace cigarettes, hopefully leading to getting off of tobacco/nicotine all together, and vaping being an easy way to get hooked on nicotine. How can one be allowed and even encouraged while the other is somehow discouraged?
Possibly. Or let people who want the kick from nicotine get it. That's not my bag, but it's minimally dangerous.
The vapes have not been around long enough for us to know exactly what damage they cause. More and more of them are coming out of China, who does not carry about toxic products. I'm not a controlling person, but I do support banning the flavored ones, which are what got the youngest interested. Our youngest has gotten hooked and it is impossible to get him to stop.
Ironically, the country had all but eradicated cigarette smoking by stigmatizing it. Then vapes come along and hook a whole new generation. They are bad, sorry.
Someone in our family used to Vape BUT reduced vaping, No one smokes save the kids with cigars But thats it.
Kids are college age level, & she used flavored vaping.