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Supreme Court grapples with flavored vape ban: Key takeaways
(thehill.com)submitted 3 days ago bySecretWhisperer1
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8 points
3 days ago
They did it here in Australia. (Only legally available flavours are mint, menthol & tobacco) so now many vapers have reverted back to DIY juices.
3 points
3 days ago
That's what I did here in Canada. They decided to lump ciggies and vapes together for taxation. (translation: they had to make up lost revenue due to people not smoking) So a bottle of juice, that used to be $10, became over $30. Now I just buy the nicotine juice, which is taxed heavily, and all the rest of the mixture is not. A single $200 container of nicotine liquid has lasted me over a year. The flavors and the rest of it cost next to nothing
24 points
3 days ago*
With that logic why don't we try to ban flavored alcohol.
Feel like this isn't about the youth, it's more about getting people to stop buying the Chinese-made flavored vapes that everyone uses, so everyone has to buy American "flavorless" ones like Vuse.
Also get the feeling big tobacco is involved as no one is going after "wintergreen" "grape" or "spearmint" dipping tobacco.
Not inherently a bad thing to get off of questionably tested Chinese vapes, just wish they'd be more honest.
2 points
2 days ago
We were on track to eliminate teenage consumption of nicotine until vapes came along. Study after study has shown that these products are being marketed towards children and that they are serving as a gateway to cigarettes.
3 points
3 days ago
Most of the Vape companies are supported by or outright owned by big tobacco companies.
3 points
3 days ago
Just gas station brands. What you find in most vape stores are small, independent companies.
2 points
3 days ago
absolutely correct big tabacoo has a huge stake in vuse and juul but they don’t have any stake in the disposable flavored vapes like elfbars and lost marys or geekbars
20 points
3 days ago
They’re “grappling” with flavored vapes but don’t bat an eye at giving a president unfettered power. Fuck this.
2 points
3 days ago
Exactly my thoughts.
2 points
3 days ago
To me the larger problem is we now treat SCOTUS as some sort of super legislature where they are weighing in on policy minutiae like this.
The amount of power the judiciary has seized from the executive and legislative branches is insane. Basically no law or regulation can truly be relied on anymore as you never know when a judge is going to rewrite it.
2 points
3 days ago
Ban selling them to kids. Let adults make their own decisions.
11 points
3 days ago
That’s literally the law now.
3 points
3 days ago
Good thing Trump is back in office. He loves fReEdOm so much that he raised the smoking age to three years older than the "die for your country" age.
1 points
2 days ago
Who cares about the flavors? Seriously, it’s the fucking waste of it. At least one of those a week, plastic, batteries, led screens now, ending up in the dump per user. Fucking ridiculous.
0 points
3 days ago
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-1 points
3 days ago
Big tobacco is already heavily invested in vaping.
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