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0 pointsmullingitover7y ago0 comments

The point still stands. It's like if you knew liquor stores would just break the law and sell alcohol to anyone who could see over the counter, and you won't do anything to stop them...instead your response is to ban only beer.

The (wholly unfounded by extant evidence)theory is that substantial numbers of teens who vape are going to move on to the more harmful cigarettes, and so e-cigarettes should be discouraged. Great. However, if that's your theory, step one should be ban regular cigarettes.

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eweise7y ago· 2 in thread

You don't get it maybe because you don't have kids. e-cigarettes have a different appeal than smoking. Cigarettes are what your parents did and its not cool at all. Vaping with all the different flavors and drugs you can inhale, is all the rage. Its very hard to for schools to control because there is no real smoke and can be hidden easily. I have kids in high school and middle school and they both report lots of vaping on the bus and campus. They don't see anyone smoking cigarettes. SF cracks down on a problem. Makes perfect sense.

mullingitoverOP7y ago

We need to ban all steaks!

Why?

Because my baby keeps finding steaks and choking on them!

Shouldn't you just...take responsibility for your baby and keep it away from steak? Plenty of people eat steaks and they're fine.

No! You don't get it because you don't have kids.

Edit: Seriously though, I do understand, and if I were a parent I too would probably try to deflect my responsibilities onto the rest of society. Parenting is hard, and it's much easier to try to control the whole world than to control the little people you're personally responsible for. It's an easy impulse to indulge, and history is full of examples of this. I don't blame you.

eweise7y ago

There's just so much wrong in your response its hard to even respond. I suggest you save your post and someday if and when your kid is in high school, re-read it. You will have a good laugh.

qes7y ago

> instead your response is to ban only beer

More like banning near beer.

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