Judge hears arguments over ban on flavored vaping products

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Some interesting (and obvious) points here that I have not seen elsewhere:

Judge hears arguments over ban on flavored vaping products

Jeff Lloyd, a school resource officer from Missoula, said most of the vaping products they find in schools are the smaller pod type commonly sold at convenience stores, rather than the liquid sold at vape shops.

Deanna Marshall of Freedom Vapes in Hamilton said nearly all of their customers are former smokers and 75% of them buy flavored vaping products.

"We don't have people coming in here wanting to start vaping," she said.

Other store owners said they have strict policies to prevent sales to minors. They don't sell THC-laced products, they said.

"I think what's happened with many health departments, especially on the state level, is that they are conflating the problem (of) youth vaping with this respiratory illness," said Siegel, a long-time anti-tobacco advocate. "I think they are two separate problems, but by conflating them, it's misleading people in the public to think that e-cigarettes are causing the outbreak, not THC."

"In order to curtail the outbreak, we need to stop youth from vaping THC," he said.