Posted on 09/12/2019 3:39:05 AM PDT by Reno89519
I am deeply concerned about the growing epidemic of e-cigarette use in our children. We need to do all we can to protect the public from tobacco-related disease and death, and prevent e-cigarettes from becoming an on-ramp to nicotine addiction for a generation of youth.--Melania Trump
Eleven years ago when I started vaping to successfully get off of cigarettes, everyone in the industry said that you should always stick with food grade, water-based liquids. Anything oil based is harmful, and would wreck your atomizer (The part that vaporizes the fluid). I’ve stuck with that advise all this time, regularly clean my gear, and have never had any issues.
Addicts are bad to work with. Their moods are all over, they take fifteen minute breaks every fifteen minutes, and they’re just basically needy.
Nicotine, gossiping, alcohol, pot, food, texting, evangelization, — it’s too easy to find people without monkeys on their backs.
I don’t hire needy victims of themselves if I can detect their sickness, and I generally can.
Sometimes the mood disorder actually pre-dates and leads to the drug use, though the drugs end up making it worse.
Thank you Melania.
Children using e-cigarette and becoming addicted, needs your voice.
Your rulers know that they can pull off the climate change hoax and turn supposed freedom loving Americans into nanny state commies using the road map of tobacco as a guide.
They’re not permitted to sale to minors, meaning that those that are selling to minors are breaking the laws.
They also don’t market to minors.
The “dangerous” garbage is just that, some bathtub hooch juice made off brand by those wanting to add THC to the experience and for the most part, that seems to be the most recent tell of what is going down. Off brand stuff.
Vaping has been around for a while now and only recently did these illnesses start taking hold and not many media outlets are stating the fact that it seems the primary cause of people getting sick and dying has been the illicit garbage. Banning will just increase the off brand market.
There are some here that say “regulation” won’t work. Perhaps. But will work is the Iron Law of Supply and Demand.
Tax the daylights out of vape devices / e-cigarettes.
Taxes have effectively reduced children smoking, it can reduce children vaping.
Don't kid yourself. I have been a life long coffee drinker and never have I felt compelled to get up and seek a cup of coffee like I was when out of smokes.
And I quit smoking 40 years ago. If I can't get coffee I just drink something else like caffein free diet Coke.
Government controls and taxes all the best rackets - cigarettes, marijuana, gambling, and soon, prostitution.
Can’t have those small, uncontrolled vapers running around.
Don’t forget misuse of gasoline, paint thinner, butane, propane, spray paint, refrigerant, and all of the other items that kill at least 200 people per year by huffing them.
But we need to tax them into oblivion, “For the children (And government wallets),” because eight have died from the misuse of vaping products.
WRONG. The reason is thousand of kids have become addicts.
I don’t get it:
1. Using a camel to sell cigarettes - intolerable
2. Flavoring nicotine with CAPTAIN CRUNCH, COTTON CANDY - harmless
Why not license out Elmo to sell dildos..?
Well, that’s the first and only strike against Melania ...so far.
“...she whispers in the ear of the American president who can actually do something about this crisis that moms care about.”
Isn’t everything a “crisis”?
While I don’t agree with the way the message is delivered. They demanded Smoking to be stopped. Well the E Cig was the best they came up with. Chantix is a crap drug that has Suicide attached to it besides a lot of side effects.
Until you can replace the Need for Nicotine it’s like the War on Illicit Drugs you can’t stop it.
With each ban, right the government takes away the closer we get to Communism.
Nothing wrong with this statement, I file it under the banner of PUBLIC SERVICE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN. No different than wearing a bracelet or ribbon. I’m not a big supporter of all these messages only because some I find offensive, but free speech is a guaranteed right.
This will be interesting. Will vaping become an important national cause for “conservatives,” now that President Donald J. Trump and Mrs. Melania Trump have decided it is a “growing epidemic” which is a terrible threat to “innocent children”?
Or ... not.
I don’t know the source of the statistic, but if its true that 25% of high school kids are vaping now, that doesn’t seem like a ‘manufactured’ crisis. Seems like a real concern.
Lots of problems/challenges here. Govt shouldn’t be the moral police, but where the hell are the parents? Govt does have a role in protecting citizens from predatory and dangerous products. Yes, its grey in some areas, but its pretty black and white when it comes to keeping our kids safe from addictive drugs. Kids growing up on these products are more likely to be public charges later on due to health problems.
The whole press-induced panic has worked once again even on our community I see.
You are aware that the vast majority of folks getting sick from vaping are using HOME MADE THC vaping liquid, right?
And that most vape shops are closed to minors, right?
And that most vape shops have to have their windows blacked out like a sex shop, right?
Congratulations, you swallowed their line of disinformation for panic-mongering purposes EXACTLY the way they want you to.
After all, “WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!”
I don’t know what’s more pathetic: the panic mongering, or those that fall for it.
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