I am 30, so just old enough to have seen the slow rise to fame that vaping has done. I remeber the camel cash, and how as a kid I'd collect as much as I could. From my dads pack to empties thrown out the window. I was 8 when I started smoking. Most people who read that assume I was poor white trash, becase what kind of parents would let their 8 year old smoke. My mom was a nurse, and worked hard and often out of town. My dad is a veterinarian who did the stay close to home parenting. He built a clinic right next door, kept an eye on us even though we had a part time sitter/maid. The problem was, dad and the sitter both smoked. How could they tell that a kid was lighting up maybe once a month for the buzz. Even through highschool I never smoked much. I'd buy my friends packs, because I had a full beared and certainly looked old enough. And I knew all the stores that wouldn't bother checking. So it started with the hook, camel cash. Something my parents let me collect and turn in for cool shwag. And if a pack still had one left did they search it. Certainly not, I wore a D.A.R.E shirt. I was educated.it tasted like crap and I was a good kid. I'm sure they never guessed till middle school and even then I claimed the smell on my close came from rides in my friend's car with his 2 pack a day mom. Now they say the flavors are the hook. God forbid an ex smoker inhaling anything but crap. The real hook for minors, is that some vape shops are the new head shops in town. I got in an argument with a guy about mods and quickly realized he was not talking about juice. Worse was I didn't catch his age till later. My state just passed some laws to make it harder to vape in public, and honestly, they where right to do it. vaping on a SVD with Carmel smoke doesn't show kids what the prior 22 years of smoking did. So, I keep my inokkin hidden and vape an evic in the car. But maybe, maybe 1 in 5 kids see the "toys" and want one. Most, get a box mod from their dealer or learn to use mom and dads cards to order online. You see a purchase from e stix and think your kid got a new game or controller or what ever lie helps you sleep at night. Our community needs to set a better example, I bought smok starter kits for all my employees that smoked, and when the ones who didn't complained I said straight up. If you want to start an addiction, fine, but i won't start it for you. Later I overheard them saying the starter packs wouldn't be able to burn hot enought for pot anyway. So basically, it's not vapers, its not the mods, it's the new way to get high that's grabbing teen attention. I go to 2 different shops in slc, one costs more, but they follow the laws. They ask parents to take kids outside. The other, they charge less, and they have a nicer group working there, but they make there own juice and the other day they closed early and had dea guys and dogs waiting to enter. We know people still make mods at home. And we know what at least a quarter are really for. But to the suppliers, please, don't support that in your community. Lets fight one battle at a time. Luckily, the second shop stayed open. I was worried when I saw it that this was going to be the start to the end of reasonably priced products. That utah would over react and get it illegalized. Which they would love to do. It's va state that would ban coffee if they could. So to the vapers who do vape more than e juice, just keep it to yourself. Teens don't need another way to get high, and we the vapers don't want to be pulled into the war on drugs.
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Here in canada i see kids buying them in stores all over, however because im in canada the ones they are buying off the shelves dont contain nic. More responsible store owners will put them behind the cash or with the real cigs. I also agree this will be a main argument used against the use of pv's.
Congratulations, graduate!! And congrats on switching to vaping. I started smoking regularly when I was 16 so I can't really say that underage kids should be read the riot act....but 13....wow, at that age its most likely the "be cool" factor that attracts them. Its tough for kids that age to know the difference between a decision they made themselves or a decision based on peer influence.
It's all Stephen Dorff's fault. Plays a vampire and now he vapes in commercials. Damn kids love anything to do with those lame vampires.
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