I'm sure there are negative impacts of vaping and it should definitely be more heavily regulated. But the neutering of Juul only to allow dozens of Chinese clones to take their place was such a huge blunder.
Let's be fair, if you take an old smoker (eg. two packs a day), and switch him to a vape, it's (most probably) a lot better for him than staying with the classic cigarettes.
The problem here is/was the advertising... clouds of smokes, bubblegum flavour and targeting the kids... so you have people who never would have started smoking in the first place, staring to vape, sometimes inhaling even more harmful substances than the old-former-smoker.
Agreed. Congress Pating themselves on the back for taking down juul while allowing the rise of these e-waste single use vapes with notably more flavours than Juul ever had.
I think it was a political move and not at all about the health of people.
Its not really that they are from China that is the issue here, its that all the replacements it seems are the single use type vapes which just seem so wasteful. So many perfectly good batteries and components being thrown away...
The problem here is/was the advertising... clouds of smokes, bubblegum flavour and targeting the kids... so you have people who never would have started smoking in the first place, staring to vape, sometimes inhaling even more harmful substances than the old-former-smoker.