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0 pointsmunk-a7y ago0 comments

Sure but... it's sort of crazy that juul has been allowed to get a whole new generation of folks hooked on tobacco. There's been a myth spread around that e-cigs exist solely as a more healthy alternative to traditional cigs - they are more healthy but those candy flavours have resulted in my office now having more smokers in it than ever before... and they're all under 23.

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jdhn7y ago

Smokers, as in cigarette smokers, or as in e-cigarette smokers? I thought all the candy flavored tobacco cigs (minus menthols) were blown out of the water back in 2011 or whenever the new tobacco act was passed. Interestingly enough, the law led to clove cigarettes being relabeled to cigarillos in order to get around the law.

nemo44x7y ago

So called “candy flavors” attracting kids is problematic as a hypothesis for a few reasons. One is adults enjoy them. Secondly, for well over a century teenagers smoked cigarettes that were not candy flavored. They don’t care what the flavor is. Nicotine feels good.

Should we ban sweet alcoholic drinks?

I remember when it was the Republican Party that went to the “what about the kids?!” well to justify asinine legislation and laws.

kortilla7y ago

Vaping is not smoking. Tobacco is not nicotine. Learn the differences in health risks between the former and the latter and how much of a positive it is for people to transfer to the latter group before crying.

Vaping is so much better than tobacco than we should be discussing banning alcohol before vaping as far as harm to society is concerned.

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