Fuck. Them. Kids.
If their useless parents can’t parent them, that’s the parents’ failing. Flavored vapes and flavored cigarettes absolutely should not be banned, that was the top of a slippery slope and the people who’ll gleefully go sledding down it should be openly mocked for their pathetic desires to Disnify the real world by everyone literate enough to know that the bottom of that slope is prohibition style gang wars. Nobody who wants to make something completely inaccessible to adults is interested in “protecting children”, they’re interested in controlling adults.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
If you’re talking about the US the flavored cigarettes were outlawed as a backdoor for banning foreign tobacco producers competing with domestic ones, had fuck all to do with protecting children.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m still importing flavored nic pouches from Sweden but one of my orders got seized by customs. Thankfully the vendor refunded me for it, but still a pain in the ass.
Adults like flavor, too.
Also, on the whole, isn’t nicotine consumption among kids on the downswing anyway? Take the wins where you have them.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yep, same here. I was a pack a day for a decade, swapped from cigarettes to vape to lozenges to nothing, haven’t had any nicotine since 2017. It’s on the way out in general, as weed is legalized more widely that trend will probably hold.