Why don't people want e-liquid labels changed?

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k702

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I agree but most do not. You chose to have em it is your responsibility to raise em not mine.

That's only part of it though. One reason education in America sucks so much is because so many don't even come close to being invested in it. If you had to write out a check for your child's education every month or at the end of every year you would concern yourself much more with it. You would be much more on top of things if the quality lacked. You could go to another school and the school that failed to meet expectations would go out of business and be replaced by one with the possibility of living up to expectations. And you would, because you had to work to earn the money to write the check for the education.

As it is now people think it's somehow free and don't think much about it unless they send their children to a private school (in which case they're paying twice)
 

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I agree but most do not. You chose to have em it is your responsibility to raise em not mine.
That's only part of it though. One reason education in America sucks so much is because so many don't even come close to being invested in it. If you had to write out a check for your child's education every month or at the end of every year you would concern yourself much more with it. You would be much more on top of things if the quality lacked. You could go to another school and the school that failed to meet expectations would go out of business and be replaced by one with the possibility of living up to expectations. And you would, because you had to work to earn the money to write the check for the education.

As it is now people think it's somehow free and don't think much about it unless they send their children to a private school (in which case they're paying twice)
Virtually no one pays the full cost of their child's education in the public school system. And even where there are vouchers it is still socialized. On vouchers all you should get is what you paid in school taxes, not what someone else paid it too.
 

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Here is the crux of the argument for me for this and other similar topics:

vaping<>Smoking

The similarities between the two are mostly aesthetic. They "look" similar. Other than that, for both you inhale something and often both contain nicotine, though not always.

Current research suggests that vaping is 95-99% less harmful than smoking, which puts it on par with breathing city air, or drinking tap water, in terms of relative risk.

Research should be ongoing, but we have more already than many people realize, and without market impetus research will be stunted.


If vaping is not the same as smoking, why should the same rules and regulations apply?
 

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Here is the crux of the argument for me for this and other similar topics:

Vaping<>Smoking

The similarities between the two are mostly aesthetic. They "look" similar. Other than that, for both you inhale something and often both contain nicotine, though not always.

Current research suggests that vaping is 95-99% less harmful than smoking, which puts it on par with breathing city air, or drinking tap water, in terms of relative risk.

Research should be ongoing, but we have more already than many people realize, and without market impetus research will be stunted.


If vaping is not the same as smoking, why should the same rules and regulations apply?

I need to make a macro with all those hands clapping, just for your posts. :D :thumb:

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we do not need standards.
we already have them.
if some one making juice is not using food grade or higher
ingredients they are by definition not making e-juice.
all the ingredients, the PG,VG,flavorings and nic base
are already made to FDA specifications.
how do you make a specification for something
made with ingredients that are already made to
such a stringent standard in the first place?
just be careful and get the nic % correct and
the worst possible out come is bad tasting juice.

the very nature of the ingredients in e-juice and
the utter simplicity of the manufacturing process
make it incredibly easy and safe to make.
really there is no magic,mystery or special culinary
expertise needed to make it.
there are already all the necessary production
protections existing in law right now to insure
a safe reliable product. making a cake is more complicated
and dangerous.
regulation standards are an ANTZ trap.
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mike
Can I borrow your mass-spectrometer to make sure the juices I get are set to the standards you think they are?
 

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That is fundamentally wrong.

"People getting harmed or outright dieing (getting killed)" isn't good for anyone, let alone a company that lets it happen even in a world without regulations. A company that just left conditions dangerous enough that people were dieing off left and right wouldn't be in business very long. Lawsuits, boycotts, a general lack of possible employees due to people not wanting to die... all would contribute to the closure of the business. And other businesses would either learn from the mistake or fail themselves. This is how the world works, even with regulations in place. Most industries where you can find dangerous conditions before "regulations" were actually evolving before said regulations existed. They just did it at a different pace and wasted FAR less money and time on ridiculous things in the process.

What people that believe what you said fail to recall or understand is that when you give regulatory power to a group of people that more or less have nothing to do with the industry they're regulating you get a sh*t ton of waste. Prices become inflated, the cost to get started with a company in the industry being regulated skyrockets and you end up with a whole lot of that corporate greed you dislike so much because the only companies that can at that point afford to get into the industry are the ones that have already been established. Your other option in this case is to give regulatory power to those that are involved in whatever industry you're talking about.. And that works out pretty much the same way. The big companies have the money to get themselves into key positions in the regulatory group and then charge license fees to newcomers to the industry that keep the grand majority of people out all the while increasing their power in said industry and bingo there's more of that corporate greed for ya.

Rules and regulations put in place in this country have mostly amounted to being a way to keep fresh new ideas and competitors out of the market in favor for those that are big enough to divvy out dollars to those that will vote in their favor.

Sure you can point out the things that go wrong, but you'll never see the things that would have gone right if not for the filter of "regulations".


... food for thought right?
TLDR
 

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    The ads and labels in question are a tiny part of the marketplace, .1% at most. I don't see how a tiny label for an unadvertised brand, available mainly only in vape shops, promotes sales to children. They could have some chance of encouraging ingestion if found. However, highly flavored liquids are unlikely to be ingested in quantity due to strong flavoring, and concentrated nicotine is not colorfully labelled.

    BTW - If Anyone does Not Know or Understand what type of High Ranking Senators we are Up Against, or the Degree to which they will Fight over the Perception of Marking towards Children, please view this Senate Hearing replay...

    E-Cigarette Marketing | Video | C-SPAN.org

    Then come back and say if you think Marketing with Anything that can give these Senator MORE Ammunition is a good thing.

    Watched this last night, appalling. If I knew nothing about the subject, I'd even say they sounded reasonable and like they care about people. Everyone needs to watch a congressional hearing about something they actually know about.

    I won't try to respond to everything in the video, but a few quickies:
    1. I bet Rockefeller is being paid more than the Blu and NJoy reps at the hearing, whom he personally insulted for doing anything for money.
    2. There are at least 100 comments about things increasing. So what, everything about vaping is increasing right now. No context is made in any of these cases, for example how many poison center calls were actually serious, how many where little Johny touched a drop of e-juice and parents called to ask questions, much less the number of calls for other products.

    You're right, anything can be turned into ammo by these people because they have no morals. I have mixed feelings about reacting to it any way, however.
     

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    It's not about what's on the bottle of juice or even what's in the bottle of juice. It's about who has control over those things: the consumers, or the government. One wants quality juice, and the other simply wants the control so that it can determine later how best to financially benefit from it.
     

    Robert Cromwell

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    It's not about what's on the bottle of juice or even what's in the bottle of juice. It's about who has control over those things: the consumers, or the government. One wants quality juice, and the other simply wants the control so that it can determine later how best to financially benefit from it.
    You left out the juice manufacturer.
     

    Robert Cromwell

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    What I have found quite interesting through my travels, is that people everywhere are so similar, yet societies can be so different...

    Humans are mostly pack animals and readily adapt to following those in control of their particular little corner of the universe.
     

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    Humans are mostly pack animals and readily adapt to following those in control of their particular little corner of the universe.

    This is why I like Prague society so much. Everyone does what they want, within reason. There is virtually no violent crime and pretty much all vices are allowed or overlooked. People dictate the norms of the society, rather than a government...
     

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    Humans are mostly pack animals and readily adapt to following those in control of their particular little corner of the universe.

    Not me. I'm strictly homo sapiens hermitus.

    Andria
     

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    This is why I like Prague society so much. Everyone does what they want, within reason. There is virtually no violent crime and pretty much all vices are allowed or overlooked. People dictate the norms of the society, rather than a government...

    Sounds like a nice place. Most of the USA is full of humans wanting no other humans to do what they themselves do not want to do. And wanting to pass legislation enforcing this. A country full of legislative morality. Kind of like Sharia law but a different view.
     
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