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The War on Vaping
Hey, let’s regulate something people do that harms no one.
The new policy announced by Trump will toughen marketing rules the FDA has been developing for e-cigs for months. Manufacturers would have to show their e-cigarettes don’t pose a public health threat. They would also need to demonstrate why e-cigs without the added flavors should stay on the market. Until then, the administration can order all flavored vapors off the market.
The respiratory illnesses connected to vaping are due to black-market THC vape inserts, and have nothing to do with the legit vaping capsules, so let’s ban all the legal stuff and create a new black market! The prohibition argument says teens are using the flavored vapes, so adults can’t have them – an argument you could apply to every flavored vodka on the market, if you wished.
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Which I believe are already illegal under federal law.
Why not just, you know, enforce that law?
They’d just exempt themselves as they do with every other law.
Actually, the flavors are meant for the mouth. There are no taste buds in the stomach.
My sister is a nurse, been one for 30 years in all areas of the hospital, and isn’t as concerned about health from vaping as from smoking. My husband has been using a vape pen for 6 years, not one incident, exploding battery, etc. only 1 cold in those last 6 years. When smoking, he had two bouts of pnemonia in a year, hence the vape pen.
The misuse of a product is what causes most problems. So manufacturers warn you not to blow dry your hair in the bathtub. The big plumes of vap are from multiple pens put together, and is offputting to me too.
It is sad that there doesn’t seem to be as big of a problem with pot in the last week than with vaping. Nicotine is what is in the gum, it isn’t the health problem that tar is. There are over 200 carcinigens from pot smoke (according to my pharmacy tech module), and it is still current law that the feds see no medical benefit to marijuana. The legality is most probably a push for recreational use, not medical.
I’ve lost some drive to vote for Trump, just cancelled my Trump women daily email update. Melania says she will not back down. Went from 0 to 100 real fast in meddling with my life.
Parents should be monitering the kids, not the rest of us.
I’d be willing to bet, they’ll put candy oil in the plain jane stuff. You can find recipes all over the internet. You can also find recipes for making vape juice. So, because it is something kids find cool, we must do something. I say, let them smoke, and even drink with their parents.
I could drink legally since I was 18. Not a drunk. Did drink.
I’ve been saying this from the beginning when people complain that the flavored cartridges are obviously there to appeal to youngsters, as if no adults like fruit-flavored things. Should we ban all sweet and fruity cocktails? Obviously the Mai Tai was invented to get the kids hooked on rum.
There it is. I know a bunch of people who vape and no one uses tobacco flavored juice. Anything else… cherry, bubblegum, banana nut bread… you name it.
This is a bad decision by President Trump, both in terms of advancing conservatism and, I believe*, electoral politics. I don’t think this is something that squishy suburban moms would change their votes over, but I do see it as something that recovering smokers and young adults will be angry about.
*I haven’t seen any polls, and there have been no elections that I know of in which this was a major issue.
Is the flavoring agent in vape pens significantly different than flavored tobacco? From pipes to hookahs to cheap cigars, flavored tobacco has been around for a long time.
You know what I haven’t been able to find? A time frame for the six reported deaths. If that is six deaths in the history of vaping it is quite a bit different than six since the beginning of the year, or this month, or this week.
Time is an illusion. THC Vape Time doubly so.
When I quit smoking I started with tobacco flavored juice. It was quite a trick to find something that tasted like Marlboros. I guess for legal reasons a producer can’t say, “tastes like those friendly old cowboy killers you smoked all your life.” Instead they resort to “just like America’s most popular brand” or “American Red tobacco”. I never did find anything that fit the bill. My go to is coffee flavor with the lowest nicotine percent.
Here’s where I’ve seen the greatest difference. In the old days while at work, I’d be itching for any excuse so I could grab a cigarette. Now, doesn’t bother me in the least to go all day without my vape pen.
I believe that kids vaping is a fad. Not like cigarettes at all.
When I was a kid, smoking was a sign of adulthood. It was cool. Everyone smoked. Well, our culture portrayed it that way. Objectively, vaping looks silly. Like most manufactured crises, this won’t last.
Yeah, that’s always the impression I got too. Maybe it’s just a sign of my age?
Right there with ya.