I agree that safety is a concern for everyone. But protecting kids? Parents' job, not the government's, or any of these busybody agencies'; the best way the government could protect kids is making sure that parents know what they're doing -- but do they have mandatory parenting classes? No. They'd rather try to mind our business for us, than do anything *actually* useful.
Proper labelling *should* be an issue, and every ejuice I've bought says things like "contains nicotine - keep out of reach of children." But say one word about allergies, sensitivities, or properties of the ingredients? Nope.
The BEST labelling I've seen so far on ejuice is on the back of Pipe Sauce bottles: "Surgeons in general have determined that living will cause death." Something that most gov't agencies seem to have forgotten, or never realized in the first place.
Andria
What the government can do is monitor a variety of statistics. For example, how many children are killed by household cleaners?
Household Cleaning Products Still Pose Poisoning Risk to Kids - ABC News
Early childhood injuries from household cleaning products dropped by almost half over the past two decades, largely due to child-resistant packaging -- but the number of injuries still remains high, according to an analysis of a national database.
Overall, the number of kids age 5 and younger treated in emergency departments for household cleaning product-related injuries fell 46 percent from 22,141 in 1990 to 11,964 in 2006, Lara B. McKenzie of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and colleagues found.
Then, we can move on to lawn darts. Do you remember them? They were banned.
And then there are drunk drivers. Statistics showed 50% of fatalities by drivers under the age of 21. The drinking age was raised, as pushed by the feds, stating this problem. In fact, they reduced the fatalities significantly by doing so.
I was reminded of this topic when the US started spending $100 Billion a year on counterterrorism, at a time when more people were dying from deer attacks and home appliances, each of which is around 150 people a year, and where is the public outcry? I know the hypocrisy is rampant.
The state can respond to statistics, due to unsuspecting or negligent or incompetent citizens. They should respond in some way to the biggest ones, like American food that causes heart disease, but they don't. I really don't think they actually do this whole thing about addressing actual statistics out of public concern, like they do for moneyed concerns. The child-resistant caps appear to have made a difference with some household items, because let's be honest... You walk into most people's homes, look under the kitchen sink, and you will find the chemicals necessary to do heinous things. Who takes measures to stop that from happening? It becomes a statistic.
I don't think the stats with eLiquid compares to what's under the sink. I know for a fact it doesn't even come close to prescription med overdoses. And according to this page, there are over 20,000 reports of fluoride poisoning from toothpaste a year, but milder poisonings still go unnoticed.
Fluoride Action Network | Acute Fluoride Toxicity from Toothpaste Ingestion
In the end, I think there's some good ammo for comparison, here. The toothpaste one really gets me. The prescription meds. The household products. And the whole point about safety issues addressed by liability and lawsuits.
