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Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should've looked into posting this in a different community.. It's closer to a silly "innovation".. soo.. is this considered FUD? I also don't support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had "privacy-violating" before the "solution".

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 months ago

Honestly, I don't have much of a problem with them even vaping nicotine, especially once we're talking high school (ages 14-18.) They're already not allowed to buy it, that's enough. Sure, sometimes they'll evade the law and get it, they'll do it with white claws too, should we ban those? No, and you'd be hard pressed to find some teetotaler to say "yes" to that, but for some reason that goes right out the window when it's not "the thing they did as kids" but "the new thing they don't understand."

I'd be willing to bet flavored alcohol is more damaging to a young brain, more addictive (or at least on par) with nicotine, and what's more you can actually die from alcohol (and benzo, which the kids are getting too btw, very illegally) withdrawals, but are we banning Ciroc and Xanax and applying the flavor ban logic unilaterally or are we just singling out the vapes because the big pharma and tobacco lobbies successfully propagandized people into doing their bidding in a war against the most effective smoking cessation method on record to date?