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CMV: Flavored vape juice (and vapes in general) should not be banned

I’ll preface this by saying I’m an adult who quit smoking cigarettes by vaping. I won’t deny I have a bias here. I also started smoking cigarettes at 16 and drank alcohol underage. 

Flavored vape juice is not just appealing to minors. Adult smokers are drawn to flavors because they are more enjoyable than regular cigarettes, helping them quit. Vaping has been shown to not be as harmful as cigarettes. I’m not going to pretend it’s healthy, but it is at least *significantly* better than cigarettes. Since switching entirely to vaping my health has improved. My chronic cough is gone and I can walk up a flight of stairs without wheezing. Even if it turns out vaping will also cause cancer in 30 years, my quality of life is far better right now. There have been no deaths from nicotine vaping. The only vaping related deaths reported have been from using unregulated THC cartridges. Millions die every year from smoking related conditions. There’s also secondhand smoke, which harms non smokers as well. 

Vape flavor bans are hypocritical. You don’t see people lobbying to ban flavored alcohol which is also more appealing to minors. Alcohol can kill you in one night and there’s no potential health benefits to blue raspberry vodka. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to give up my Apple whisky, i just think it’s hypocritical to ban one and not the others. 

Flavor bans harm vape shops. With new vape mail restrictions, some of us have to depend on local vape shops. Now that more and more have gone out of business it’s less accessible. I can go to any gas station and buy a pack of cigarettes. I can’t go to a gas station and buy coils/pods for my specific device or e-liquid. My only option at that point is getting one of the devices and pods sold by big tobacco companies. Aside from not wanting to support those companies, those straight up are just shitty and overpriced.

For clarification, I am not saying that all vape regulation is bad and that we shouldn’t act to prevent minors from vaping. I am just saying that flavor bans and outright vape bans harm adults more than they protect minors.
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> Adult smokers are drawn to flavors because they are more enjoyable than regular cigarettes, helping them quit

This is a common argument that has been pushed by tobacco companies for decades (before vaping they said the same about mentholated cigarettes). The problem here is that "light" versions of cigarettes are much more likely to become easier ways of entry (almost everyone that starts smoking finds normal nicotine disgusting and needs some kind of flavoring to pass it until they become addicts and any nicotine feels good, this is also why these flavored versions appeal to teenagers that haven't yet developed a taste for the nicotine itself) rather than easier ways of exiting, meaning that allowing them to exists turns into a net positive in the amount of smokers, not a negative.

If you want to quit but your body still feels the effects of leaving nicotine and you need a light version to keep yourself going on, nicotine patches are more helpful and are not attractive ways of entry into nicotine for starters and teenagers.