Why are we not stopping cigarettes from being shipped around the U.S. immediately under these exact same concerns?
The problem isn't the vice itself, it is the demand for the vice.
There isn't yet a huge vape smuggling industry anywhere. Also, if banning vapes helps reduce the rate at which it is getting trendy among teenagers then I fully support it.
For one, cigarettes are not considered cool anymore, and will meet their inevitable death soon. Second, cigarettes can't be banned, because addicts will be forced into smuggling or moving to harder stuff. Third, Cigarettes have a ready smuggling industry that will take over, the second they are banned.
The analogy would be like leaving a bad marriage. It is a lot easier to divorce someone who will amiably accept than an extremely abusive partner where dissent puts your health at risk. Cigarettes are the abusive partner.
Banning cigarettes would be prohibition all over again. The vape ban has not been as bad of a disaster yet, so I can see why the govt. would want to continue with it.
It's typically nicotine, VG/PG (essentially glycerines like you'd use in a fog machine, but medical/food grade), and often a small amount of food flavoring concentrate suspended in the same VG or PG base.
I quit smoking with this stuff and eventually dropped off the nicotine. I made my own liquid because I could source the ingredients myself, control how much nicotine I used, and knew exactly what I was puffing on...something I couldn't say when I still smoked.
Yes, because prohibitions have always worked out marvelously, the list of bad things kids get into is small, and won't someone please think of the children?!
If you're all for banning dangerous things that adults enjoy which we also prohibit children from doing, you're list is going to grow quite long.
In many countries cigarette companies are not allowed to advertise as trendy or cool. Their packages are forced to contain photos of people affected by lung cancer and big signs saying the same. It really does help make smoking appear uncool.
Juul and vaping companies have gone around unchecked in this regard. Even if the ban is reserved I would be a huge supporter of such adversarial marketing restrictions.
> and won't someone please think of the children
Adults have way better impulse control. Thinking about the children is a legitimate concern, when talking about things with massive doses of nicotine.
> list is going to grow quite long.
If the world worked the way I wanted and laws had 100% efficacy, alcohol would be banned too. But, alas it is so deeply ingrained into our collective social psyche that it is going nowhere.
Apart from alcohol and pot, what adult thing can't minors enjoy ? That's the list.
And in the meantime, how many adults have you harmed by taking away an effective smoking cessation device in some naive attempt to protect children from a threat that you can't even quantify?
Treat them like cigarette companies when it comes to advertising, I'm all for that, but don't take away flavors or ban them outright out of fear.
>when talking about things with massive doses of nicotine
No one is dying from nicotine.
>f the world worked the way I wanted and laws had 100% efficacy, alcohol would be banned too. But, alas it is so deeply ingrained into our collective social psyche that it is going nowhere.
Jesus.
Note: I'm not arguing that those specific chemicals were found in the vape liquid, just an example of something I would not expect to find in a traditional cigarette.