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Because people are awfully good at getting around laws preventing the purchase of things, particularly when those things are legally purchasable by adults -- c.
by dgacmu 7y ago
Because people are awfully good at getting around laws preventing the purchase of things, particularly when those things are legally purchasable by adults -- c.f., cigarettes, alcohol. It's not crazy to think that a multi-pronged approach would be more effective: Try to reduce sales both sales _and appeal_ to underage people. We do this with alcohol, for example, particularly high-alcohol malt liquor [1]. We ban or restrict advertising when it's likely to reach children. [2]
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391327/
[2] https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/who_ban_tobacco/en/ https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/who_ban_t...
- t-writescode 7y agoHow is this different from flavored alcohol in appeal, though? You could buy bubble gum or chocolate or any other sort of flavor for alcohol, and primarily hard alcohol, at that! Or harder, at least (30 proof+)
- joezydeco 7y agoIt's a lot harder to consume alcohol in public as an underaged kid. A lot of it happens in private, after hours or on weekends. A lot of the vaping done by underaged kids is happening in public - some of it during school hours right inside the building. As a parent of teenaged kids I hear a lot about their peers vaping right in the middle of a classroom.
- t-writescode 7y agoThen maybe make vaping, nicotine or not, illegal for children. Now you don’t have to specify and they can’t be advertised to, at all, even for the purely flavored vapor.
- jyrkesh 7y agoKids in my high school used to drink birthday cake vodka out of a water bottle in the middle of class too...
- wutbrodo 7y agoIs it? Put your liquor in a thermos or a water bottle or a soda bottle and you look like any other innocent teen having a legitimate beverage. Hell, you can do it while talking to an authority figure. Vaping seems much harder to disguise than this.
- tylergetsay 7y agoExcept the smell and puckered face every time they drink it. Vodka in a water bottle produces bubbles while water doesn't. School staff is super aware of this stuff.
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- JamesBarney 7y agoI don't think we target high-alcohol malt liquor (which is less alcoholic than many ipas or any wine) because of the alcohol %.