The agency is proposing allowing other tastes for vapes, like mint, coffees, spices or tea, to appeal to adults. At the same time, illicit candy-flavored types aimed at teenagers have flooded the market.
The real purpose of MAHA: addicting another generation to nicotine.
I started on Copenhagen long cut, cigarettes, then menthol cigs, then every flavor of vape I could find, then nothing. All in my legal adult years.
I do think that tobacco companies probably don’t try to exclude teens from their marketing. It’s not like their ads are some Nickelodeon satire. An ad for adults probably also strikes home with teens. I’m not sure how one would tell the difference unless it was blatant, like Dora smoking a Juul, which it’s not.
This is another case of clutching pearls and believing the government should replace parenting.