If you’re talking about the US the flavored cigarettes were banned as a backdoor way of shutting out foreign tobacco producers competing with domestic ones, had fuck all to do with protecting children.
I’m still importing flavored nic pouches from Sweden but one of my orders got seized by customs. Thankfully the vendor refunded me for it, but still a pain in the ass.
Adults like flavor, too.
Also, on the whole, isn’t nicotine consumption among kids on the downswing anyway? Take the wins where you have them. That has far more to do with making smoking un-cool (and millennials and X’er parents quitting in droves) than any sort of flavor ban.
And a lot of us quit (smoking, at least…we pivoted our addiction to one with less damning side effects) with…drumroll please…flavored vapes.
Right? I still think about the “grape” and “iced tea” flavored cigarettes I was able to buy in Korea. Absolutely delicious, better buzz, and didn’t make my mouth taste like an ash tray afterwards. Can’t get anything like that in the States.
Which, to the other commenters’ point, is probably good, because the ash-tray-mouth is a large contributor to why I no longer smoke.
Yep, same here. I was a pack a day for a decade, swapped from cigarettes to vape to lozenges to nothing, haven’t had any nicotine since 2017. It’s on the way out in general, as weed is legalized more widely that trend will probably hold.
If you’re talking about the US the flavored cigarettes were banned as a backdoor way of shutting out foreign tobacco producers competing with domestic ones, had fuck all to do with protecting children.
I’m still importing flavored nic pouches from Sweden but one of my orders got seized by customs. Thankfully the vendor refunded me for it, but still a pain in the ass.
Adults like flavor, too.
Also, on the whole, isn’t nicotine consumption among kids on the downswing anyway? Take the wins where you have them. That has far more to do with making smoking un-cool (and millennials and X’er parents quitting in droves) than any sort of flavor ban.
And a lot of us quit (smoking, at least…we pivoted our addiction to one with less damning side effects) with…drumroll please…flavored vapes.
Right? I still think about the “grape” and “iced tea” flavored cigarettes I was able to buy in Korea. Absolutely delicious, better buzz, and didn’t make my mouth taste like an ash tray afterwards. Can’t get anything like that in the States.
Which, to the other commenters’ point, is probably good, because the ash-tray-mouth is a large contributor to why I no longer smoke.
Yep, same here. I was a pack a day for a decade, swapped from cigarettes to vape to lozenges to nothing, haven’t had any nicotine since 2017. It’s on the way out in general, as weed is legalized more widely that trend will probably hold.