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There are 6 comments on POV: FDA Restricts Flavored E-cigarettes, but Not the Real Killers. Huh?

  1. The elephant in the room not addressed in this article is taxes. The government wants to have it’s cake and eat it too. On the one hand, the government demonizes smoking, but allows cigarette companies to maintain and increase addictive qualities of cigarettes at the same time to ensure continuation of the tax income. Most of the effective smoking cessation programs have been defunded while extra taxes have been piled into cigarettes. Clearly, there is no will to limit smoking and cut off the cash cow.

  2. The answer is obvious: Big Tobacco is one of the leading donors to politicians and they have a whole arsenal of lobbyists in Washington. Political corruption doesn’t even wear a fig leaf these days.

  3. As the parent of a Juul-addicted early 20-something, I have been assured that if they can’t have easy access to Juul products they will (and have) turn to conventional cigarettes which are likely much more harmful. Thus, I think these regulations will make a new generation of cigarette smokers out of many of these young Juul users.

  4. Although cigarettes are definitely more dangerous than e-cigarettes, the implications of this article are ridiculous. If cigarettes are banned then a huge underground market will form as well as the appeal to the younger generation of using something that is considered illegal but still prominent in popular culture. I do agree that the resistance against e-cigarettes is not completely justified, but with the amount of young children using these devices, especially the JUUL, I think that some sort of regulations or strategy tactics need to be taken.

  5. Unfortunately the data being provided about ecig use by teenagers is being grossly over exaggerated. These devices are still relatively new and are still in a a curve of becoming more mainstream. It would be interesting to see a side by side comparison of ecig use in adults and children over the same time period. I bet they’d be close to identical.
    All the reports of “OMG 500% increase in ecig use in 10 years!!!” (exaggerated) are ridiculous. Children are children and will decide what they want to do. The demonizing of nicotine just needs to stop. I believe in providing real, honest, and truthful information to everyone, including our youth. The scare tactics cause more harm then they prevent. Of course teens shouldn’t drink, smoke, drink energy drinks, or do recreational drugs, but misleading them about the effects and potential dangers just cause an increase in ignorance and nothing else.

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