Oh not at all. However define "proper, sensible regulations".
Are any of these high powered
vaping devices safety tested? No.
Has every (any?) flavor being used been tested for long term effects on the users? No.
Is every bottle of e-juice have chemical breakdowns of what goes into it? No.
Are there child proof safety caps on the bottles? No.
While I doubt that BT has done any of the above there is not mounds of studies and information proving the safety of
vaping and the long term inhalation effects of the juice being marketed ether.
Yes, it would appear that BT and others may help push to regulate vaping as we know it out of existence. However, please re-read what I wrote earlier, the bottom line being that if industries self regulated effectively there would be no reason to have government agencies and their regulations to play "big brother" and "protect us" or protect big business.
By "proper, sensible regulations" I meant the kind of regulations that were really made with user health concerns in mind - not with corporations WEALTH concerns. See the new European TPD and tell me again how concerned with "citizens health" they are...!
"Are any of these high powered vaping devices safety tested?"
Regulated devices already have proper electronic safety features. If some bloke wants to play with a 0.004 Ohm coil in his mega mech mod, that's user error. It's like reckless driving. We are not banning cars because of that.
"Has every (any?) flavor being used been tested for long term effects on the users?"
No. Just like EVERY single consumer product, from food colorings/preservatives to cell phone radiations. Long term studies can only be done after a product has been released in the market, giving people the chance to use it, well... long term. Why should the e-cig be the ONLY exception?
Not even medicines are studied long-term prior to release. If they were, we would not see sometimes a medicine taken off the shelves after some years of being made available.
"Is every bottle of e-juice have chemical breakdowns of what goes into it?"
Not all of them. That's were "proper, sensible" regulation would be useful, see? Having juice manufacturers disclosing that list is not the same as forbidding them to sell anything, because "there should be closed containers only - hopefully, manufactured by Big Tobacco - because a tiny little drop of spilled e-liquid at 3mg/ml could kill a child". The new TPD was tailored to give Big Tobacco, on a silver platter, the outdated 1st generation devices business. The only ones that could survive in Europe under the new "tobacco" rules.
"Are there child proof safety caps on the bottles?"
Yes. At least in all bottles I have bought in the last 2-3 years, at least. Manufactures knew this was going to be used against them, by ANTZ's and fellow vapers alike.
"Yes, it would appear that BT and others may help push to regulate vaping as we know it out of existence. However, please re-read what I wrote earlier, the bottom line being that if industries self regulated effectively there would be no reason to have government agencies and their regulations to play "big brother" and "protect us" or protect big business".
Wake up and smell the coffe. This has NOTHING to do with "big brother protecting us". If it had, BB would look at the e-cig in a rational, scientific way - as the effective tool for harm REDUCTION (not elimination) that it actually is. They would "protect us" by being more receptive to something that his reducing health hazards on the population. And that can only be "good for us". Trouble is, it is also terrible for THEIR interests, which BB always puts ahead of OUR interests.
