Colorado Teens Say It’s Easy To Get Around Vaping Laws

[LoveVanilla]

Colorado Teens Say It’s Easy To Get Around Vaping Laws

Fines range from $250 to $999 depending on the number of offenses a particular location has had in a period of time. Licenses are suspended in some cases in Denver. She said they try to get to all sellers multiple times a year.

Outside of Denver, the state and federal government handle the enforcement. There, CBS4 found when stores were busted using a similar technique the punishment consisted of a warning letter. In a few cases fines of $250 to $500 were issued.

Fines of $5,000-10,000 per violation and stripping of sales authorization on a second violation within a two-year window seems more appropriate to me.

 

[CarolT]

I hope the younger generation will start taking over someday soon, and repeal all those stupid oppressive laws.

 

[bsidb]

how about the same rules/punishment that apply to an under age alcohol sales

 

[DaveP]

Anyone wonder why the government doesn't shut down the cigarette industry and push everyone to vaping?

Oh, wait ... tobacco taxes will generate about $13 Billion to the states this year and years forward. States are hooked on tobacco.

U.S. - tobacco tax revenue and forecast 2024 | Statista

 

[Rossum]

Anyone wonder why the government doesn't shut down the cigarette industry and push everyone to vaping?

Oh, wait ... tobacco taxes will generate about $13 Billion to the states this year and years forward. States are hooked on tobacco.

Well there is that, but there's also the fact that current law simply doesn't allow the unelected bureaucrats at the various alphabet agencies to do that. So shutting down cigs would require a new law, passed by Congress and signed by the President. Since smokers are still somewhere around 15% of the adult population, doing so would carry a heavy risk of reprisal at the next election because it would make smokers rather angry.

Then there's the fact that vaping isn't an adequate substitute for everyone. I suspect the majority of those for whom it is have already made the switch. Many of the rest would likely avail themselves of the black market that would surely arise.

 

[DaveP]

Well there is that, but there's also the fact that current law simply doesn't allow the unelected bureaucrats at the various alphabet agencies to do that. So shutting down cigs would require a new law, passed by Congress and signed by the President. Since smokers are still somewhere around 15% of the adult population, doing so would carry a heavy risk of reprisal at the next election because it would make smokers rather angry.

Then there's the fact that vaping isn't an adequate substitute for everyone. I suspect the majority of those for whom it is have already made the switch. Many of the rest would likely avail themselves of the black market that would surely arise.

Big corporations have big push capability when it comes to incentivizing Congress. Former smokers still carry heavy weight in the vaping fight as well as tobacco lobbyists (after all, it got us off the smokes). When it comes to taking sides, the highly populated Eastern states are mostly involved in some way with growing tobacco, from Virginia down to Florida and farther west to the Mississippi river area and a couple of mid-western states. If tobacco production is a significant income producer in their states, citizens are going to vote to keep it. If it involves incoming producing products congressional reps are going to vote to keep it.

 

[Jman8]

Fines of $5,000-10,000 per violation and stripping of sales authorization on a second violation within a two-year window seems more appropriate to me.

If you're ANTZ, why not just (falsely) claim that all eCig sellers are doing this? (Oh wait, they already have done that.) This way, even some on eCig forums will go along with a shut down of the entire industry in that oh so noble effort to protect the children from vaping.

Cause surely under prohibition, no child would ever vape.