The more banned, the more interesting for them; lots of teenagers are rebellious.
So what? Teens should smoke like their parents and grandparents?
So what? Teens should smoke like their parents and grandparents?
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Mwa, only stealth vaping...
Better than cloud chasing and far better than smoking tobacco, weet, .......
Sometimes I think in school uniforms the tag should read "Property of the US government" or something. Cuz teens sure get batted around on every "sin" issue. Now that their all armed with rocks (due to the school shooting I think, and I must state, again, how hilarious it is that teachers and students are now hoarding rocks for their intended purpose, to throw and disarm someone, but if someone picked up a stick and called it a gun in 2nd grade, they'd get expelled).
But since our teens are getting more "motivated" so to speak, I kind of think we should ship them, their juuls and their rocks over to Glantz's location, and they can "speak" to him about their "vaping concerns." Etc.
Yes, vaping is safer than starting smoking, but you'll never hear it in a teen's case. In a teen's hands, the juul is the devils tool but if they're smoking, it's largely ignored (as well as any drops in smoking starting.)
Most of my kiddos same age friends vape, quite a few of them. Based on my kid, I have to say that quitting vaping has got to be easier than quitting smoking. He did it with little complaint, and mostly said he just "ignored" his desire to vape, and hence, did not. I think he had a week of annoyance or so, then it was largely over for him. He still occasionally vapes 0 nic with his friends to have "something to do" but for the most part, nah.
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But since our teens are getting more "motivated" so to speak, I kind of think we should ship them, their juuls and their rocks over to Glantz's location, and they can "speak" to him about their "vaping concerns." Etc.
Yes, vaping is safer than starting smoking, but you'll never hear it in a teen's case. In a teen's hands, the juul is the devils tool but if they're smoking, it's largely ignored (as well as any drops in smoking starting.)
Most of my kiddos same age friends vape, quite a few of them. Based on my kid, I have to say that quitting vaping has got to be easier than quitting smoking. He did it with little complaint, and mostly said he just "ignored" his desire to vape, and hence, did not. I think he had a week of annoyance or so, then it was largely over for him. He still occasionally vapes 0 nic with his friends to have "something to do" but for the most part, nah.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) created and has (along with Legacy lies initiative) has fueled the anti-JUULING panic by left wing Democrats and the news media
After AAP sent the following to lots of news media
Vaping: Dangerous, Available & Addicting
Congressional Democrats jumped on the anti-JUULING bandwagon
Pallone to Gottlieb: “JUULing” Threatens Kids’ Health
https://democrats-energycommerce.ho...r re Juul Products and deeming rule. HE_0.pdf
https://www.daily-times.com/story/n...pallone-calls-fda-regulate-juuling/459609002/
as did the news media (without any fact checking)
More teens sneaking vaping devices that look like flash drives, markers into suburban high schools
"JUULing" among the more deceptive vaping techniques for kids
'JUULing': The dangerous trend gaining steam among teens
Are your kids JUULing at school? 7 On Your Side investigates
Generation Vape: Teens Drawn to E-cigarettes
‘I Can’t Stop’: Schools Struggle With Vaping Explosion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-parents-fight-a-juul-e-cigarette-epidemic-1522677246
https://www.today.com/health/what-juuling-teen-e-cigarette-trend-worries-doctors-t126062
http://www.journalnow.com/business/...cle_7d12f596-c290-547c-99d5-e31b62175a7a.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/juul-super-strong-vape-aimed-at-us-pupils-d5zhk9msq
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/06/nday.04.html
https://www.vogue.com/article/vapin...tion-toxic-metal-heat-lungs-heart-attack-juul
After AAP sent the following to lots of news media
Vaping: Dangerous, Available & Addicting
Congressional Democrats jumped on the anti-JUULING bandwagon
Pallone to Gottlieb: “JUULing” Threatens Kids’ Health
https://democrats-energycommerce.ho...r re Juul Products and deeming rule. HE_0.pdf
https://www.daily-times.com/story/n...pallone-calls-fda-regulate-juuling/459609002/
as did the news media (without any fact checking)
More teens sneaking vaping devices that look like flash drives, markers into suburban high schools
"JUULing" among the more deceptive vaping techniques for kids
'JUULing': The dangerous trend gaining steam among teens
Are your kids JUULing at school? 7 On Your Side investigates
Generation Vape: Teens Drawn to E-cigarettes
‘I Can’t Stop’: Schools Struggle With Vaping Explosion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-parents-fight-a-juul-e-cigarette-epidemic-1522677246
https://www.today.com/health/what-juuling-teen-e-cigarette-trend-worries-doctors-t126062
http://www.journalnow.com/business/...cle_7d12f596-c290-547c-99d5-e31b62175a7a.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/juul-super-strong-vape-aimed-at-us-pupils-d5zhk9msq
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/06/nday.04.html
https://www.vogue.com/article/vapin...tion-toxic-metal-heat-lungs-heart-attack-juul
All this fuss is massive massive free publicity for JUUL. I bet the product sells better and better week by week.
Yes, until it suddenly becomes the first vape to get banned.
I sincerely wonder what the manufacturers are doing/thinking right now. Sure, any publicity can be "good" publicity.... Until lawmakers get their hands on it, etc. etc.
Anna
I sincerely wonder what the manufacturers are doing/thinking right now. Sure, any publicity can be "good" publicity.... Until lawmakers get their hands on it, etc. etc.
Anna
If I was JUUL, and the Spotlight kept getting Brighter, I would be worried about retailers Jumping Ship for calmer waters.
The fact that you find it hilarious that children are collecting rocks to hopefully save their lives is disturbing. No child should have to go to school and fear for their lives. Plus the teens are smarter then us as adults have been.
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The CNN take was actually pretty fair the second one with the kid at least the reporter acknowledged that they are a way to get adults off cigarettes. Most news stations just bash vaping. But the kids that are vaping would be smoking if there wasn’t vaping as an option, which is better but they still are going to get addicted to nicotine which I wish I never had.
Oh come on, pretty much every retailer that carries Juul also sells traditional cigarettes. If it makes them money, they'll keep selling it, for as long as they can.
I don't think CVS has ever sold Juul. IIRC, they stopped selling all "tobacco products" in 2014.
Is it possible other chains or independent stores might do the same? I suppose so. Heck there was supermarket in one town that I lived in when I was in high school in the 1970s that refused to sell cigarettes. My mom (a smoker) avoided shopping there at all.
But I just don't see the typical C-Store ditching Juul while continuing to sell cigarettes.
Dunno?
Retail Chains get tired of getting Hate Mail from PTA Members. And there is Always the Fear of being targeted by a FDA/TC age sting.
Don't know what type Margins there are for a JUUL? Or what type of Volume they command?
But if I was a Buyer for a Store Chain, I would consider just selling less High Profile e-Cigarettes. Because Nobody in the Media is say'n that there is a Wave Sweeping Schools of Kids NJOYing.
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It's funny, because you hear people complain about reporters editorializing as part of their reporting. The story was on kids getting expelled for vaping. Has there been a decline in smoking? Yes. Smoking related fires? Undoubtedly. Accidental cigarette burns? I'd imagine. If you're an environmentalist, you might want them to include a word about how many trees are spared because of the decline in use of paper wrapping on cigarettes.
Or... they can simply report on the story in front of them. They shouldn't be activists for or against anything, just reporters. Now of course, CNN doesn't live up to this expectation, but in a world where FOX News is getting crazier right by the day, and MSNBC is as far left as they've ever been, CNN is about the only place to go for folks who want to hear both sides. Which is why I like Smerconish. He's about as down the middle as you're going to find.
I have no idea what the retail markup is on Juul pods, no. But I understand that Juul now has over 50% market share in the "e-cig" market (which doesn't include the stuff most of us use). I've also heard their sales were somewhere around half a billion dollars last year....
I think that would be a good way to lose a more business than you think. Someone who wants Juul pods is going to find a place that sells them; they won't settle for some other product. And then you'll also lose the soda or coffee or whatever they might have bought while they were in your store buying more pods on a regular basis, just like the smokers buy their cigs.
Perhaps I put this inaccurately. It's not the fact that kids are collecting rocks I find hilarious, per se. I actually think there should be armed guards. I find irony in the fact, juxtaposed WITH the fact that if a kid picked up a stick in second grade would get expelled for picking up a stick and using it imaginatively. I don't necessarily see the rocks as a bad idea, but I do think armed guards would be more useful. Probably.
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I don't understand why kids would get addicted if they go vaping or even cloud chasing with nicotine free liquids with flavors like strawberry, vanille, honey, chocolate, a.o.
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