Does this seem right to you?

[Rocketpunk]

Parents have no problems keeping poison under their sink when toddlers and curious and snooping youngsters are around. And yes, I understand, Draino doesn't have a logo that looks like a talking cookie. But that's only part of the issue. But gad forbid a juice company makes a snappy or cutesy looking label. I mean, goodness, look at the kawaii fad in Japan. It's nothing but 100% cuteness. And while I doubt they're hawking kawaii inspired logos in Japan or even here in the States, other juice companies get a pass. Cosmic Fog has a smiling cloud wearing shades with a rainbow around it. Space Jam, before they had to change, had a cartoon alien riding in a flying saucer with the lettering taken directly from the children's movie. Anyway, that's all I have to say about that, I guess.

 

[Martnargh]

Screw censorship. My son does what i say while i teach him right from wrong. When he is old enough to make decisions he can do so under his own roof while under mine i am the law.
This is like the story of the man that caught his wife sleeping with another man on the couch so he resolves the problem by getting rid of the couch.
People need to assume responsibility for their kids and stop expecting the world to shift to accomodate them.
In the old days everything was 100 times more hazardous the difference is now parents went soft and try to get political with their kids.

 

[alicewonderland]

This is like the story of the man that caught his wife sleeping with another man on the couch so he resolves the problem by getting rid of the couch.
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lmfao thats a good one, never heard that before. That is a perfect analogy.

 

[PansyRabbit]

This is all so interesting. It's true that many adults, myself included, like things that are cute. I am 46 years old, and I've been known to purchase Hello Kitty, and I buy kawaii stationery from Asia all the time. I also like flavored vodkas with pictures of whipped cream and cake on the labels.

My kids are teenagers and luckily they never got into anything dangerous, but accidents happen all the time, even with the most vigilant of parents. If I'd been vaping when they were little, I guess I'd have kept my vape-related stuff out of sight and secret, just as I did my cigarettes. They never knew I had those either, and still don't. I realize that's being hypocritical but I'm trying to be a role model.

 

[CallmeRage]

I take out my eliquid and put it in unicorn bottles.

 

[ScandaLeX]

I went through the cabinet as a kid and ate a bunch of flintstones vitamins and a bunch of these orange super sweet tasting candy vitamin c tablets i think they were. Apparently you could get sick by eating too many vitamins, luckily somehow, I dont think i ever got sick.

I did this & by the time my parents finished whooping my I never went back in those cabinets for Flintstones again.

 

[Martnargh]

My sister fed me a bunch of sleeping pills when i was a toddler, my mom noticed something was up when i started hitting the floor and was acting like i was drunk. Had to get my stomach pumped.

 

[Edward Aiz]

Giant Vapes is my go to online premium e liquid shop. I have purchased G2 Vapor Dr Green, awesome kiwi blend. Thank goodness the dropper has a child resistant cap.

True, that picture above is a bit cute and can draw a child to the bottle, but I hope all of us as adults will keep all e liquid in a dark place, and if there are children around, my best advice is, get a lock for the cabinet.

Just a thought.

 

[spartanstew]

A very high % of kids today don't have 2 parents...

test tube babies?

 

[Thedudeabides870]

Working in a shop I can attest that people of all ages come in wanting a candy or cereal type.... Especially the older crowd, as they regain their sense of taste, they want that jolly rancher or bubble gum they haven't tasted in years. You can't put an age limit on sweets

 

[jambi]

Trix are for kidz.

 

[Rocketpunk]

Another part of the burden lies upon the shoulders of vendors. Online vendors can only do so much. Clicking on "I'm 18" doesn't stop a minor with a prepaid card from buying nicotine juice or hardware. That's where I think a little bit of regulation can be a good thing. But if you operate a B&M store, and the customers are directly in front of you, card the blank out of those people. If they look under thirty, CARD THEM. If they don't have ID, they should have to leave the premises, even to the point to where they can't whisper or conspire with cohorts. Any brick & mortar who does't emphasize and enforce IDs, will only hurt our culture.

 

[HauntedMyst]

I was thinking of buying a really popular eliquid recently. I always keep my eliquids out of reach from my kids, but I just couldn't bring myself to buy this particular eliquid because of the packaging and the thought that it just looked too much like something kids would mistake for candy. Anyway this is the eliquid:

I bought that liquid. I was watching the kindergartners at Sunday school and had that and a couple other liquids with me. I left them on the desk to rinse my atty out and when I came back, that one wasn't touched. Damn kids stole all the Pluid. They denied it but their tongues were green and they had the nic hiccups.

 

[TronCat]

This reminds me of Nice e juice, they make froot loop, cherry coke, Dr pepper and skittles flavoured juice and the package has the logo(edited to be named like the juice, ex Dr pepper is Dr. Puffer) it's so similar it's scary..

 

[Thedudeabides870]

Another part of the burden lies upon the shoulders of vendors. Online vendors can only do so much. Clicking on "I'm 18" doesn't stop a minor with a prepaid card from buying nicotine juice or hardware. That's where I think a little bit of regulation can be a good thing. But if you operate a B&M store, and the customers are directly in front of you, card the blank out of those people. If they look under thirty, CARD THEM. If they don't have ID, they should have to leave the premises, even to the point to where they can't whisper or conspire with cohorts. Any brick & mortar who does't emphasize and enforce IDs, will only hurt our culture.

I always card if they do not look of age. I refuse to contribute to underage kids who 99 percent of the time are just doing it to cloud chase (no disrespect meant by the cloud statement)

 

[Thedudeabides870]

I also do not sell to parents who come in with their teens, kids do the pointing for mom then she asks to buy. I politely refuse the sale, sometimes they get mad, again oh well, I'm sure there are plenty of other shops that would gladly do it just to make a sale

 

[Jorge22]

Hmm... I really couldn't care less, the "think of the children" routine is not only stupid, it's scary too and makes you even more sure people are strange (thanks, Jim). So... vendors and manufacturers don't create labels in order to captivate children, the label is fit for an adult too and if the adult thinks "it's for children, not for me, I'm so serious I can't stand this drawing" he must have a lot of toys in the attic. I'm not saying I like the logo a lot, I'm only saying there's just no sense in making any kind of fuss because of it.

Just the same, "grownups" couldn't like desserts, for instance - only whisky and bourbon and tobacco and beer and whatnot. It's the same kind of logic that can make someone think adults have to take hard to swallow pills even if there's another, better way, of taking a medicine, and even if it's hard for someone to swallow a pill. Of course I like things grownups like, namely the ones I mentioned (well, not burning tobacco anymore), but I also have a sweet tooth and I'll punch anybody who tells me I can't in the nose, lol.

God, what a crazy society we live in nowadays! Are things any better? In too many ways, frankly, not really... Sometimes, it's just too hard to breathe.

 

[bones1274]

Hadn't seen this, glad you posted it. You would think that with pending regulations juice companies would be more responsible with their labeling. I can just see some politician on the news waving this bottle around, great ammunition for the ANTZ community....

And yet there is no public outrage over, or politicians waving around alcohol bottles for targeting teens because they would never ever be interested in whipped cream flavored vodka....

 

[Thedudeabides870]

And yet there is no public outrage over, or politicians waving around alcohol bottles for targeting teens because they would never ever be interested in whipped cream flavored vodka....

Exactly!

 

[DeAnna2112]

Just because i am 45yrs old does not mean i don't like gummy bears, however, given i am an adult, it looks irresponsible and mortally bad when an adult product that contains a deadly poisonous liquid comes in a bottle with gummy bears on it or shaped like one. The flavoring is what i care about, not the cute kiddie packaging and marketing.
There is a reason why most liquid sellers do not do this and that is because they have their priorities straight, so likewise, let's support these sellers and pick our fights wisely as well. Making arguments in comparison to other products is irrelevant, only eliquid flavoring will be on the table and scrutinized when the gavel comes down on how it is regulated.

As an adult who vapes i have two choices.... keep my focus on protecting flavors, or i can throw a losing card into the fight and insist that i should be allowed to be marketed to like a child... (((sigh)))..and this is what we are willing to lose our flavoring freedoms over? ..shakes head.