Michigan becomes first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes, cites dangers of vaping

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Your stock just keeps going UP @Raven-Knightly !!

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I’m very pleased I don’t live in the USA.

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You’re my favorite.

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Well, they have (almost word for word, as CA also crafted) dug their own grave into amorphous confusion:

Michigan is ignoring that virtually all tobacco leaf products are (themselves) flavored by many hundreds, if not thousands, of flavoring elements. There is no objectively defined “taste/aroma of tobacco”, whatsoever.

(Seemingly, so far) ignoring that the agency adjudication of precisely what and which products do or do not constitute a “flavored vapor product” will require the creation, maintenance, and defense of a “flavoring registry” (which will and should be litigated furiously). Rules like these will almost surely create a much larger overall mess - and more dangers - than no such rules at all. This state so much enjoys litigations, it seems.

They have willfully “leveraged” the existence of an (likely un-removed Propane/Butane residue) issue surrounding dark-market THC products (probably originating in an entirely different state) into a false and unwarranted stab at Nicotine vaping. The results of their prohibition will almost certainly result in dark-market contamination issues (in Nicotine vaping products). Like the boy who cried “wolf”, they are going to chew their own arses off (by creating the very kind of same problems that they falsely claim to be mitigating).

No doubt (not unlike the ongoing Opiophobic Catastrophization Olympics), vastly more harm will occur as a result of throttling and prohibition, engendering a dark-market supply - but the “powers that be” are likely to sling blame, scapegoat and ignore their own core culpability in willfully engendering more dangers and harms by prohibiting legal sales. Expect lots of unctuous nanny-state moralistic emotional garbage to be trumpeted.


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They haven’t banned vegetable glycerin or cupcake flavorings…
So either D.I.Y. or buy from one who does.

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An so a black market is created

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Gray%20Market%20Antics
What if my juice tastes like weed, man ? What then ? Am I grandfathered in ?

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To Funny!!!

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Calling all DIYers in MI. better get ready to start making extra. Looks like the black market just got more business.

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Next on Governor Whitiot’s agenda. Banning forks & spoons to combat the child obesity epidemic.

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The dumb thing is, there’s already laws in place to keep kids from buying pods.
So now ya just want to close down all the mom and pop vape shops.

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Exactly. This will be just a social media ‘victory’ to gather votes from the uninformed parents, that are too absorbed in themselves, to actually be parents. It also helps protect Tobacco Settlement income, to the state(s). As you, and others have said, the laws are already in place to curtail teenage access to smoking, drinking, & vaping. The retailers obviously ignore them. The kids obviously ignore them, The adults that buy & then re-sell or give them to kids, obviously ignore them.

Put some real teeth into the penalties for ignoring the laws, and they might make a dent in it.

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The lady in the video forgot to address the dangers of overeating. However, this is about protecting the children of course and blaming flavored e cigarettes is easier to take care of than drugs and extreme violence in Detroit for example.

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Check this Sh!t out. Exactly what we don’t need.

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Could it be that big pharma sees vaping as a threat? People get healthier and stop buying so many pills?

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Embarrassing to in any way be associated with this Neanderthal-brain misogynistic garbage. Pathetic. :-1:

@anon44012888: Instead of punching “huggie” emoticons, you (could) actually meaningfully apologize for this crap.

Obviously no capacity for (thus, remote probability of) that occurring (see below). Genitals aside (maybe I don’t even have such things, … dude), females who read and contribute to this forum may (at their individual discretion) chalk such vile oral exudates up to “malignant moral leprosy” leading to a total loss of credibility.

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Oh man and here I thought the whole time you were a DUDE! Boy is my face red!

Sorry my dear, didn’t mean to poke fun… Just a guy saying guy things :smiley: Neanderthal and all

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This the opposite of free market capitalism.

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