Topic: vaping

Advertising is vulnerable to abuse. Rules are few and easy to circumvent.

Corporations will fight dirty if necessary to protect their investment. That includes in the political arena.

Legalization solves problems related to the legal status of a drug, but has far less impact on the problems related to the nature of the substance itself.

JUUL’s parent company has replaced the JUUL CEO with somebody from the tobacco industry.

Sure, the tar was gone, but as one of the other counselors put it, “that thing ain’t nothin’ but a crack pipe for nicotine.”

And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.

We already know there’s a strong business link between vaping and Big Tobacco.

So, public health advocates maintain, the McConnell plan is really just a clever ruse to reduce support for other legislation that might actually reduce smoking and vaping.

Though recent headlines insist that vaping is almost twice as effective than alternatives, that doesn’t mean it’s especially effective.

It’s still just nicotine, after all, even if someone doctored it to smell like creme brulee.