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Yeah, those are actually e-cigarette flavours, not actual candy. Nope, not marketing to kids at all!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The headline to this article<\/a> is slightly misleading. They aren’t talking about just a ban on flavoured tobacco in California, they’re talking about a ban on flavoured tobacco and flavoured e-cigarette products. I still think it’s important to differentiate between the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is all part of a recent crackdown on e-cigarettes and their fruity, sugary flavours. The e-cigarette industry isn’t really fooling anyone when they claim they aren’t marketing to kids when they make flavours like “Smurf grape” and bubble gum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juul has apparently agreed to stop sales of some of its sweet flavours. Candy-flavoured cigarettes were banned some time ago, but Swisher sweet cigars, a long-established product and menthol cigarettes were still allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the FDA is moving to ban all flavoured tobacco products and menthol cigarettes. That move could be tied up in courts for a while, because menthol cigarettes are BIG business (roughly about 10 percent of cigarette sales) and the tobacco industry simply isn’t going to go down without a fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The City of San Francisco banned the sale of flavoured e-cig products<\/a> and several state legislators in California are proposing a similar statewide ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s my attitude about the sweet flavours. If e-cigs are really designed to help get smokers off cigarettes, then the draw should be the nicotine, not the flavour of the steam. By having strawberry and lemon-lime and what have you flavours, this to me is pretty clearly just part of the e-cig’s craven tactic of making their products appealing to kids — who are not using e-cigs to get off cigarettes, they’re using e-cigs to get addicted to nicotine to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I hope the bill passes and in California, it probably has a good chance to pass. The day of reckoning for the e-cig industry has arrived, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The headline to this article is slightly misleading. They aren’t talking about just a ban on flavoured tobacco in California, they’re talking about a ban on flavoured tobacco and flavoured e-cigarette products. I still think it’s important to differentiate between the two. This is all part of a recent crackdown on e-cigarettes and their fruity, … Continue reading California lawmakers propose ban on flavoured e-cig products<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[901,1],"tags":[688,910,591,458],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cig-flavourings","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-e-cigarette-flavouring","tag-e-cigarettes","tag-san-francisco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/candy-king-strawberry-premium-e-liquid_orig.jpg?fit=1100%2C692&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-160","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4175,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4175","url_meta":{"origin":4216,"position":0},"title":"San Francisco bans flavoured tobacco products","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"June 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"San Francisco voters, by an extremely wide margin, voted during California's Tuesday election to ban all flavoured tobacco products. 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