Law Michigan becomes 1st state to ban flavored e-cigarettes

Michigan becomes 1st state to ban flavored e-cigarettes

Michigan became the first state in the nation to ban flavored e-cigarettes.

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Michigan on Wednesday became the first state in the country to ban flavored e-cigarettes, as concerns continue to grow over the potential dangers of vaping.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made the decision after her chief medical executive found that vaping among young people "constitutes a public health emergency," according to a press release from the governor’s office.

Whitmer lambasted companies selling vaping products by “using candy flavors to hook children on nicotine and misleading claims to promote the belief that these products are safe.”

“That ends today,” she said in a statement.


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Flavored nicotine vaping products -- which include tastes akin to apple juice, bubble gum and Nerds candy -- will be banned in retail stores and online in the state. Any marketing of the products that include the words “clean,” “safe,” and “healthy" have also been banned.

Whitmer also ordered the state’s Department of Transportation to enforce an existing statute to prohibit the advertising of vapor products on billboards.

“Governor Whitmer has taken bold and appropriate action in response to the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use,” Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, said in a statement.

(MORE: Potential links to lung illnesses and e-cigarettes under investigation: CDC)
The ban comes after nearly 100 possible cases of severe lung illnesses associated with vaping were reported in 14 states from late June to mid August, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In Michigan, the Department of Health and Human Services was reviewing six cases involving respiratory illnesses associated with e-cigarettes and vaping.

“The severity of illness people are experiencing is alarming and we want Michiganders to be aware using e-cigarettes and vaping can be dangerous,” Sarah Lyon-Callo, the state epidemiologist, said in August.

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The CDC noted that more information is needed to determine exactly what is causing the illnesses. In all of the cases across the nation, it does not appear that there is an infectious disease involved.

Vaping among high school students increased by 78% from 2017 to 2018, and rose by 48% among middle school students during that same time period, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The FDA believes the sharp increase stems from the use of USB-flash-drive-like e-cigarettes, including the JUUL product, which have become majorly popular among young people.

More than 3.6 million kids reported using e-cigarettes in 2018, according to the FDA.

tbf, e-cigs are both figurative and literal cancer anyway

 

[Carnavoyeur]

One of the real dangers of vaping is inexperienced or less common smokers who blindly just buy whatever nicotine cartridges without actually checking their content or doing the math to figure out how much nicotine their body needs to get its fix. So you have 20-year olds walking around right now who are addicted to the nictotine equivalent of half a carton a day because they assumed anything smaller was the pussy version for fags and the Chainsmoker's Delight Skull and Crossbones EditionTM was for real men.

Even Juul says on their packages that one pod is the equivalent of one pack of cigarettes, so there are people out there literally smoking 2-3 packs worth of nicotine a day and going "I stopped smoking cigarettes thanks to vaping!" Okay but you're still consuming the addictive ingredient. It's like saying you're not addicted to gambling anymore because you switched to online poker instead of going to a brick and mortar casino.

 

[OjSimpsonFan21]

Frankly this seems mostly an affluent (or relatively) school problem. Collecting vape accessories is like a status symbol now. In the hood I'd have to think it's still more shoes and chains.

It's almost more like a fad. Black people realize that vaping is gay and stupid, and would rather spend disposable income on fashion.

 

[totse]

Even Juul says on their packages that one pod is the equivalent of one pack of cigarettes, so there are people out there literally smoking 2-3 packs worth of nicotine a day and going "I stopped smoking cigarettes thanks to vaping!" Okay but you're still consuming the addictive ingredient. It's like saying you're not addicted to gambling anymore because you switched to online poker instead of going to a brick and mortar casino.

It's the (an) active ingredient, but is it the chief addictive ingredient? Considering information like this regarding the MAOIs in tobacco, it makes sense that nicotine replacement is useful for overcoming tobacco addiction. It could also explain why users of nicotine alone use so much more. Some of the shit is missing.

Nicotine

On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine (research up to 2015)

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