Yes, it is about the children (E Cigs)

[DirkGently]

199. Your links don't say what you suggest they do.

This is not a well-thought out argument, Nadine.

- Your link about "Angry Birds" cozies being a lure to children goes to a website covered in "We will not sell to minors" messages, and even a graphic showing Angry Birds is most appealing to people 35 and older.

- Your "Professor Gantz" study indicates users of e-cigarettes are largely smokers trying to quit, not kids taking up nicotine for the first time.

- Your link to an article suggesting the e-cig industry agreeing to a ban on sales to minors is a "red flag" is from people who want to impose tobacco taxes and other restrictions across the board, to treat e-cigs exactly like cigarettes. Tobacco taxes? Why?

The bigger problem with what you are saying is that you link everything to cigarette smoking, as if vaping / e-cigs is somehow the same thing. It's not. Nicotine and nicotine addiction are a separate issue, with a separate set of possible health concerns. There is no indication it is becoming a special problem with young children, or that manufacturers are trying to sell them to children, or that it will somehow turn out that people inhaling water vapor and nicotine is just the same as inhaling sticky particles of chemical-soaked plant material.

Vaping, or e-cigs, are not smoking. They are not another form of smoking. There is no flood of science pouring in suggesting that vaping could ever possibly turn out to be as harmful to health as smoking. That's not the same as "safe" or "harmless." But it is a different issue from people putting particles of burned tobacco onto their lung tissue, which is the actual problem with smoking.

TWO. DIFFERENT. THINGS.

Get past that, and there's probably plenty to talk about, but as is, this OP is not making its point well.