Electronic Cigarettes: New Route to Smoking Addiction for Adolescents

[Tyhanna]

67. with that thinking....

With that thinking then kids should be using nicotine gum, lozenges because they come in fun flavors. Also how about all those alcohols that come in fun flavors to? Alcohol flavored chocolate (we know how much children love chocolate) Are these also marketed to the youth or are the youth trying to do adult only things, like they have been doing for years and years?
Its very clear to me that NRTs are marketed as a smoking cessation product to smokers. And its very clear to me that flavored alcohol is marketed to drinking age adults. So just because it has flavors doesn't mean its marketed to youth. That is a very weak argument.

The flavors play a huge part in braking the mental addiction to "the cigarette".

We are not trying to brake our nicotine habit... we are braking the life long mental addiction to the cigarette. Two different things. Nicotine is just a minor part of that addiction once you no longer are mentally addicted to the cigarette. It takes months and months to detox all the chemicals out of your body from the cigarette, one of the biggies is the MAOI that is in cigarettes.

At 11 months smoke free from using the e-cigarette I no longer crave the cigarette, and the physical addiction level to the nicotine is no worse than caffeine.

Look how many things are flavored and geared to the youth that has caffeine in it. There are more bad side effects from caffeine than nicotine.