Chemical Additives Should Be Banned From Vape Cartridges

Manufacturers add chemicals to the vape liquid that make it easier to take a longer, deeper, and more nicotine-addictive puff

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - It seems as if an outright ban on e-cigarettes will not be coming anytime soon and governments like Canada are following suit with the United States and instead banning flavored e-cigarette vaping cartridges called "e-juice". Flavored vape pen cartridges are used mostly by youngsters who have become hooked on the bad habit of vaping. Vaping was loosely intended to replace combustible cigarette smoking and vape cartridges were promised to be available in different stages intended to reduced nicotine delivery and wean nicotine addiction. E-cigarette leader Juul, Inc., whose majority owners include the Phillip Morris tobacco company, a company that has been convicted in the past of advertising cigarettes to children and covering up their knowledge of adding nicotine to their tobacco, again conveniently failed to mention the nicotine content of vape cartridges which pack the nicotine punch as great as a pack of Marlboro, when advertising vaping to teenagers as young as 12 years old via social media platforms YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and others. Social media influencers, individuals whose internet video audiences are comprised of youngsters and teenagers in middle and high school were paid an affiliate commission for promoting vaping to their audience without mentioning the dangers of nicotine addiction inherent in vaping. Vaping was instead promoted as safe and cool. Juul Vape pen lawyers representing American families and individuals nationwide and offer a free consultation before filing a claim.

When sales skyrocketed, the medicinal and therapeutic promotions of using decreasing dosages of nicotine in adult vape pen users took a backseat to produce flavored vape cartridges that attracted youngsters who thought of vaping as basically candy. E-juice became available in such flavors as "Peppermint, Coffee, Lava Flow, Candy Crash, Blue Razz, Lemon Tart," and just about any other artificial flavor you can think of contributing to making vaping an enjoyable pastime for teens. Vape cartridge manufacturers also included chemical additives to the basic vape chemical mixture that eliminated the "kick" one would experience when attempting combustible cigarettes for the first time. As any cigarette smoker who remembers can tell you, it is not easy to start smoking cigarettes as the first few packs of cigarettes make a person gag, choke, wheeze, vomit, dizzy and just overall disgusted. Chemical additives in vape pens, however, not only made it easier and painless to start vaping but also allowed users to take a longer, stronger and deeper puff, without the side effects of cigarettes, delivering many times the normal quantity of nicotine and hooking teenagers and adults to nicotine more thoroughly and permanently. Vape cartridge "flavors" are now also available laced with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana as combustible marijuana cigarettes also become a thing of the past. PotGuide.com writes: "Cannabis vape pens and cartridges are some of the most popular products on dispensary shelves for their ease of use and ability to deliver potent hits on-the-go." Again, the same chemicals that deliver nicotine painlessly in enormous dosages do the same for THC and some 60 deaths and thousands of lung injuries are being blamed on the chemical additives.

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