Trump Retreats From Flavor Ban for E-Cigarettes
Source: NY Times
WASHINGTON — It was a swift and bold reaction to a growing public health crisis affecting teenagers. Seated in the Oval Office in September, President Trump said he was moving to ban the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes as vaping among young people continued to rise.
“We can’t have our kids be so affected,” Mr. Trump said. The first lady, Melania Trump, who rarely involves herself publicly with policy announcements in the White House, was there, too. “She’s got a son,” Mr. Trump noted, referring to their teenager, Barron. “She feels very strongly about it.”
But two months later, under pressure from his political advisers and lobbyists to factor in the potential pushback from his supporters, Mr. Trump has resisted moving forward with any action on vaping, while saying he still wants to study the issue.
Even a watered-down ban on flavored e-cigarettes that exempted menthol, which was widely expected, appears to have been set aside, for now.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/health/trump-vaping-ban.html
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1) It helped me quit a 30 year cigarette smoking habit and I wasn't even trying to quit. I started vaping what we vapers call "cig-a-likes" in order to increase my productivity as I had just started a new business and I saw that I wasting a lot of time needing to go out and smoke a cigarette in order to get my nicotine fix. After a while I noticed that I was no longer smoking cigarettes (about three months of using a vape product called an "ego pen"
. It just happened.
2) After quitting smoking I noticed a DRASTIC improvement in my cardiovascular health. I had more energy, and could now run again. I also noticed that my sense of taste and smell were sharpened.
3) I REALLY enjoy the flavors. I manufacture e-liquid myself. Not for a major market, but for the one vape shop that I own (this is in addition to my other business that I own, a real estate brokerage) and for myself. I have some awesome creations and I really enjoy vaping them. But I learned how to make complex flavored e-liquid from tasting and enjoying those made by major manufactures.
I DON'T recommend to anyone who has never smoked to take up vaping. It's a tool for quitting smoking and maintaining abstinence. But for those who use it for such it's a very enjoyable pastime with drastically reduced adverse health effects than smoking.
at the Yale Bowl. It doesn't seem to bother anyone but of course we are outdoors.
I quit smoking after having smoked for 20 years. The motivation was that I was separated and dating a nice man who could not bear cigarette smoke. It was a powerful motivation (we are now married 34 years!).
Does vape smoke get into your clothes or have a residue odor or color on your skin (two big reasons for me to quit smoking)?
Hope you don't mind my asking...
We vapers always say it's not smoke it's vapor, and it's true. No it's not water vapor, but rather a vapor of vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol and flavoring agents. You will smell like the e-liquid you are vaping, but a lot (not all) of people find someone smelling like a cinnamon bun or fruit quite pleasant. It's not unlike being perfumed, some people will like others won't. It does not stain your teeth or skin as nothing is burned only vaporized.
which is to stop smoking deadly cigarettes.
The Chinese vaping industry is to blame for the problems here, for their designing and selling high-power personal vaporizers. I've helped literally hundreds of people get of cigarettes using low-power units, somewhat like the originals from Joye.
As a e-liquid mixer I can assure people from experience that if you remove all flavoring, it creates a rather nasty vape that hardly no one would stick with long enough to break the cigarette addiction, and it only takes a small amount of natural extracts in the blend to make it pleasant.
If they want to pass a law to keep kids away from e-cigs, just make it illegal for youngsters to buy them and limit the power output to around 10 watts. That removes the "fun" and "show your ass with a huge cloud of vapor" part of vaping, thereby making it much less attractive to youth. It also returns vaping to the exclusive purpose for which it was originally intended.
KY rant done...........
I was hell-bent to quit a 50-year addiction and ordered a bunch of parts and juice sample from Liberty Flights out of California. There was not many vendors around the US back them, but I ordered samples from several to find something I could vape all day. I found one with a tobacco-like aromas from LF that was perfect but they couldn't seem to keep it in stock. Bummer.
So, I used my experience as an instrumentation tech and engineer, got all the apparatus for mixing and began experimenting. Ordered a ton of natural flavorings from The Perfumer's Apprentice and started experimenting until I very nearly matched that magic aroma from the LF juice. I still vape that recipe today, along with a cola recipe for variety.
In the long run, I made juices for a bunch of folks and many of them gladly helped me with trial runs for each new recipe I came up with. I gave them juice at my cost and all they had to do was call or write me with their suggestions on the recipes. Sometimes, it might take up to a month to get a recipe right but it was worth it.
At one point, I was making juice for a couple hundred people and all at my cost. I therefore learned a lot about people's requirements in the long term. The most astounding finding was that within a year's time, almost everyone would request their nicotine level be reduced gradually and did it on their own. Many kept vaping a "zero" nic juice thereafter just because they enjoy it.
It was a ton of fun for about four years, but I've slacked off for a while due to family health issues. I hope to get back at it soon 'cause some friends are bugging me wanting juice. They hate the stuff they buy in local shops.
Thanks for sharing and allowing me to blow off a little frustration!..........
