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> "Changing the flavor sounds needlessly draconian, as adults like apple and bubblegum, too."

I heard this same sort of thing back when Obama banned flavored cigarettes. I wasn't very sympathetic to it back then and I'm still not. But with the passage of several years I think we should be able to evaluate the impact of banning flavored cigarettes. Have any adults been unduly impacted by this restriction? I can't imagine how anybody would be, but there is no reason to speculate since it's been several years. Is there any demonstrable harm caused by the banning of fruity flavor cigarettes?

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> Is there any demonstrable harm caused by the banning of fruity flavor cigarettes?

loss of freedom.

you should have to demonstrate some value to the ban.

I don't care about freedom of the tobacco industry, nor the freedom of teenagers to smoke, nor the freedom of adults to smoke flavored cigarettes. I take it you can't identify any other 'harm.'

Thoughts on adults enjoying marijuana? How about pot-brownies? Alcohol? Flavored liquors?

If something is legal for adults and illegal for children, then why is it okay to restrict the methods of enjoyment of that item in ways that do not impact other people (e.g. driving while drunk impacts other people).

Your whole argument seems to be built around protecting children, so let’s protect them by disallowing advertisement of the product, especially explicit or advertisement that can be reasonably expected to be viewed by minors, and by carding people that buy the products.

Let’s make all vaping, nicotine, thc or otherwise illegal for minors.

Please don’t come after my apple vodka. I like those flavors, too.

>I don't care about freedom of the tobacco industry, nor the freedom of teenagers to smoke, nor the freedom of adults to smoke flavored cigarettes.

Ah, so you only care about your freedoms.

The general thrust of my argument here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20537240 also applies to flavored cigarettes. Its going to be race to bottom of extremely harmful products.

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