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Supreme Court weighs FDA block on kid-friendly flavored vapes
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"For the kids" strikes again!
It won't stop them. They'll find ways around it instantly or go for other alternatives.
Also, adults like candy and fruit too.
If you're going after flavored vapes, you need to go after flavored alcohol too.
Why not?
Your comment sounds whatsboutism but I buy it! Let’s ban flavoured alcohol too.
Prohibitionism doesn’t work because a black market emerges but as long the limitations are small enough to not have a significant black market, it is fine. Blocking flavour in vapes/alchool hardly will create a new Al Capone
There's no good reason to ban flavors.
If flavors don’t incentive addition, why do you think manufacturers are pushing back? Why there is a black market?
Because people enjoy flavors other than tobacco or menthol, and manufacturers will make more money if people have more choices.
It would be like the government saying bakeries can only use chocolate and vanilla as flavors.
Because flavors are a potential (idk i don't vape) way of differentiating brands.
I am not saying these companies aren't doing it for the addiction primarily, but there are non evil reasons that could be applied if these were food/beverage companies.
The point of blocking these laws is about people having the freedoms to live their lives like they want.
Banning ice cream would have no ill effects on the populations health, and would help many people, but people still want the freedom to eat ice cream.
We are banning all ice cream flavors but vanilla! Chocolate chip cookie dough, that's just luring more kids into being addicted to ice cream
That line of thinking has already created a massive market for disposable vapes that waste a crazy amount of fully rechargeable Li batteries