Have you guys seen this? (Hookah Stick)

[Fordun]

I'm going to try and not come off some elitist crotchety old man. (Should be easy as i am barely twenty)

I have seen these things around here for a while. Usually at gas stations next to the Logic disposables and Blu kits. I didn't pay no mind to them as i know better then to buy that crap. I bought a Logic to try out vaping and it died on me after about a cigarettes worth of vapor. Not the 2 packs the package proclaimed. Anyway it now seems we might have a problem on our hands.

My younger sister and her friends came over and tried to get me and my mother to buy them a so called "Hookah Stick" or "Hookah Pen" (The old man thing is beginning to kick in). After educating them a bit because they were convinced it wasn't a PV i refused but my mother relented and tried the store across the street. They didn't have any but this still poses a problem.

Apparently they are currently trending.

https://twitter.com/Kushadelic420/status/306563814130843648 (Notice the "Kushadelic420" in that link)
Hookah pen - YouTube
Hookah Stick - YouTube
Bored with the hookah stick - YouTube

What we see her is a group of young (around 13 years old as in the case of my sister) and irresponsible buying these things and using them in class. Its basically vaping for Snap back wearing, Jersey Shore emulating, "Little Wayne" playing, "Yolo" spouting, "SwagFags" . These people are irresponsible and could quite possibly bring negative attention the PV's.

One one hand you can say it is a good thing to have more people into the hobby. This would help promote our cause if they became mainstream. As the first round with electronic cigarettes lead to them being banned. Which is a shame because they could have been a revolutionary thing.

On the other hand. Like i said this is a group of irresponsible youth that i believe shouldn't be associated with PV's. When someone hears the world "Electronic Cigarette" i don't want this group of uneducated and disrespectful youth to be the image in there mind.
The Government finds out about this and this could lead to our hobby being banned.

Maybe its just me unleashing my inner hipster but i absolutely despise the abhorant, grotesque, degenerative, and disrespectful culture that surrounds us.

 

[NancyR]

This is why parents should be parents, if your mom caved on this then in my book she isn't much of a mother.

 

[MsComptrtchr]

I'm going to try and come off some elitist crotchety old man. (Should be easy as i am barely twenty)

What we see her is a group of young (around 13 years old as in the case of my sister) and irresponsible buying these things and using them in class. Its basically vaping for Snap back wearing, Jersey Shore emulating, "Little Wayne" playing, "Yolo" spouting, "SwagFags" . These people are irresponsible and could quite possibly bring negative attention the PV's.
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Maybe its just me unleashing my inner hipster but i absolutely despise the abhorant, grotesque, degenerative, and disrespectful culture that surrounds us.

I have to agree (much older though.) Before this thread gets pulled or flamed, I think there is a real quandry here. My 15 y.o. son has the above attitude, which I fight against daily. I also see this attitude in the kids I teach all day. Since I switched to a PV this week, my son is fascinated with it - for all the wrong reasons. I am struggling trying to make him understand that had I not SMOKED for ten years, this whole vaping thing may not be necessary (for me.) I like vaping vs. smoking, but really, I would have been better off never having smoked in the first place.

 

[Caridwen]

Let's please not criticize people's parents.

This thread isn't going to go well.

 

[lulu836]

The FDA will love this. You can always depend on stupid teenagers to do stuff like this.

 

[cags]

things have changed so much! when I was young (I'm o.l.d. now lol) my parents just told me NO. they did not care if I understood, agreed, whined, cried. there were things that were for adults only and too bad for me! and that was the end of the story. period. I best not bring it (whatever the "it" of the moment was) up again!

and I still love them

 

[hunt4food]

Im betting that the majority of the folks on this thread started smoking at a young enough age they were hiding from there parents. I doubt many of us can cast judgement.

 

[Myrany]

actually there was a whole thread on these things the other day. Some fox station in pheonix got a doctor on to rant about them (and boy did he spew misinformation). Hunting for the thread now will edit with hte link if I find it.

here it is http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...iscussion/412261-beware-evil-hookah-pens.html

 

[Magentadaisy]

Here is the thing. Alcohol is now being sold in fruit loop and bubble gum flavor. But the vodka vendors aren't taking a hit are they? It's got nothing to do with the what if's, and much more to do with who will make the most money. That. Is. It.