I see an issue the tobacco industry might find with flavor bans: it might not go well for them.
On the surface tobacco companies should love favor bans. Flavoring is what allows people to make money on juice, and it’s something they aren’t allowed to use. But I wonder if it will. Here’s the problem: the concept that e-cigs are even close to as dangerous to one’s health is prevalent, but it’s largely BS. And BS has a way of getting debunked eventually. So while there will always be a few people who actually believe the earth is flat the vast majority won’t. This is actually true of the political right too l. It’s fairly rare for conservatives to believe that the earth is flat. Only a few actually do. It’s actually an advantage because the people that don’t use it as ammunition to show their supposed sanity before talking about other stuff. (Just because you don’t believe THE most tested theory in the history of humankind {ref: Loran-c. Literally every time one got used, so maybe a couple million? And that’s just one device of hundreds} doesn’t mean there isn’t other stuff that is also bad. It’s just the most visibly ridiculous) Here’s the problem:
Even flavorless tastes better than cigarettes.
That they’re also drastically less likely to kill you ugly is something that seems to have been more-or-less successfully obfuscated by “anti-smoking” groups that, well, aren’t. But it can’t last forever.
As Lincoln once said “you can fool all of the people some of the time, or some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”
A lot of those ads are focusing on the addictive nature of nicotine now. They appear to be maybe waking up a little. Not enough to try to undo the damage they’ve done, but at least there’s a lot less digging. The ads that e-cigs were filled with metal filings is largely gone, for example though the memory of them isn’t.
The kids that are already hopelessly addicted won’t move to cigs. At least not much. It won’t help. The cigarette companies are likely pushing for a complete ban, because only then will the hopelessly addicted be pushed to cigarettes and start dying in droves years from now. Australia seems to be on that path. It reminds me a bit of the whole hardyboard asbestos thing. Except of course more people will die.
On the surface tobacco companies should love favor bans. Flavoring is what allows people to make money on juice, and it’s something they aren’t allowed to use. But I wonder if it will. Here’s the problem: the concept that e-cigs are even close to as dangerous to one’s health is prevalent, but it’s largely BS. And BS has a way of getting debunked eventually. So while there will always be a few people who actually believe the earth is flat the vast majority won’t. This is actually true of the political right too l. It’s fairly rare for conservatives to believe that the earth is flat. Only a few actually do. It’s actually an advantage because the people that don’t use it as ammunition to show their supposed sanity before talking about other stuff. (Just because you don’t believe THE most tested theory in the history of humankind {ref: Loran-c. Literally every time one got used, so maybe a couple million? And that’s just one device of hundreds} doesn’t mean there isn’t other stuff that is also bad. It’s just the most visibly ridiculous) Here’s the problem:
Even flavorless tastes better than cigarettes.
That they’re also drastically less likely to kill you ugly is something that seems to have been more-or-less successfully obfuscated by “anti-smoking” groups that, well, aren’t. But it can’t last forever.
As Lincoln once said “you can fool all of the people some of the time, or some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”
A lot of those ads are focusing on the addictive nature of nicotine now. They appear to be maybe waking up a little. Not enough to try to undo the damage they’ve done, but at least there’s a lot less digging. The ads that e-cigs were filled with metal filings is largely gone, for example though the memory of them isn’t.
The kids that are already hopelessly addicted won’t move to cigs. At least not much. It won’t help. The cigarette companies are likely pushing for a complete ban, because only then will the hopelessly addicted be pushed to cigarettes and start dying in droves years from now. Australia seems to be on that path. It reminds me a bit of the whole hardyboard asbestos thing. Except of course more people will die.
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