The marketing of e cigs needs to be regulated just as cigarettes are.

[Liberal Veteran]

59. The whole thing reeks of "moral panic" to me.

The vast majority of arguments appear to be extrapolations and transference of valid criticisms of the tobacco companies and the harm that real cigarettes have caused.

As others have so easily pointed out, this is very easily solved with "Selling to minors to should be illegal." This is a rational idea.

Pretty much everything else from worrying that someone might buy a whimsical sticker to put on their e-cig battery or they come in flavors is the same kind of nonsense that we laughed mockingly about when "Tinky Winky" was outed as luring kids into homosexuality.

And while we are at it, your study above is about the vapor, not the juice. Of course, identified means anything from trace amounts at barely the level of detection to practically rife with this substance.


Do you know what plain old exhaled air (from non-smoker/vapers) has in it?

Acetone
formaldehyde
acetaldehyde
butanone
isoprene
methanol
ammonia
ethanol

As well as trace chemicals of what you may have just ingested.

Science isn't a cherry picking contest. If you are going to rationalize your dislike of something using science, then use science (e.g. comparative analysis vs. ambient air vs. exhaled air and levels of detection compared with indoor air quality standards of safe level of trace chemicals in air), not scare tactics of scientific-y sounding stuff to make your point.

Otherwise, you might as well be telling us that people who ate a tuna sandwich exhaled mercury as an reason to ban tuna sandwiches.