There is a saying that perception is 90% of reality, and we in the vaping community are not perceived well. I am not talking about the subohm vapers who think it is their God given right to blow fogs of their obnoxious blends of ham and eggs or pizza in people's faces. This is far more insidious and will be far detrimental to the vaping community in general
One statement which struck me in the Health Canada letter of intent to close a vape shop in Nova Scotia
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...starts-shutting-down-e-cigarette-vendors.html
I will cite from the newspaper quoted in the ECF thread
""The concept of vapingis one of concern," said Mohammed Al-hamdani, manager of health initiatives with Lung Association Nova Scotia. "It's a renormalization of smoking behavior."
He said people, especially children, might not be able to differentiate between real cigarettes and electronic ones."
Please read the above citation very carefully.
We have had a slew of B&M's open up here in the Grand Rapids, MI area. I check them out once in a while for new hardware and to try their juices. All I see is young people, very young people packed in there.
One pretty young thing at the juice test station asked me what I liked vaping. In a senior moment, I asked her what she smoked. She said she was too young to buy cigarettes (here the age is 18), didn't, and had no intention of ever smoking. She liked the taste of the ecigs that her fellow high school classmates were using and that it was so cool.
These vape shops in Michigan are not doing anything illegal by selling to these young kids; but they are unequivocally unethical and are on the same page with Pharma and Tobacco as far as greed is concerned. The Internet sites at least try to put an age limitation before you can buy anything, but in reality, what control do they have over people lying about their age?
I was stunned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is old fart me who found ecigs to break a lifelong deadly habit when nothing else worked, and this teenager who was eager to find something that tasted nice and could get her peer approval.
Big Tobacco and Big Pharma won't even have to try very hard to get public opinion on their side. At the next legislative hearing to discuss regulation, control, and taxation, all they have to do is show a few images of these kids with ecigs to get passed whatever they want passed
One statement which struck me in the Health Canada letter of intent to close a vape shop in Nova Scotia
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...starts-shutting-down-e-cigarette-vendors.html
I will cite from the newspaper quoted in the ECF thread
""The concept of vapingis one of concern," said Mohammed Al-hamdani, manager of health initiatives with Lung Association Nova Scotia. "It's a renormalization of smoking behavior."
He said people, especially children, might not be able to differentiate between real cigarettes and electronic ones."
Please read the above citation very carefully.
We have had a slew of B&M's open up here in the Grand Rapids, MI area. I check them out once in a while for new hardware and to try their juices. All I see is young people, very young people packed in there.
One pretty young thing at the juice test station asked me what I liked vaping. In a senior moment, I asked her what she smoked. She said she was too young to buy cigarettes (here the age is 18), didn't, and had no intention of ever smoking. She liked the taste of the ecigs that her fellow high school classmates were using and that it was so cool.
These vape shops in Michigan are not doing anything illegal by selling to these young kids; but they are unequivocally unethical and are on the same page with Pharma and Tobacco as far as greed is concerned. The Internet sites at least try to put an age limitation before you can buy anything, but in reality, what control do they have over people lying about their age?
I was stunned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is old fart me who found ecigs to break a lifelong deadly habit when nothing else worked, and this teenager who was eager to find something that tasted nice and could get her peer approval.
Big Tobacco and Big Pharma won't even have to try very hard to get public opinion on their side. At the next legislative hearing to discuss regulation, control, and taxation, all they have to do is show a few images of these kids with ecigs to get passed whatever they want passed
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that the store you went to isn't carding people. Regardless if they're using 0-nicotine or not..kids should have to learn the art of finding gas stations or people that will buy them cigarettes. The hustler is a dying bread.. Stores here don't sell to kids. My girlfriend forgot her ID, and I was getting her and myself some crappy liquid waiting on an order. She was getting 0 because she was pregnant, and the guy wouldn't let her pick out a flavor.. technology came into play with the decision via text, so she got to at least pick the flavor that didn't even get used. gross..It was sofa king (we tarded).
