Here's an idea that might actually have some impact.
It appears to be legitimately true that many in the opposition don't actually understand the role that flavors have played and do play in the lives of legal adult vapors.
What if as many shops as possible provided actual copies of their sales records showing conclusively that almost all of their juice sales are of the flavored variety?
What if they also provided pix of the postings on their entry doors and in their stores clearly proclaiming their refusal to sell or in many cases even allow entry to minors without proper ID?
Along with video interviews of their managers and clerks convincingly testifying to the rigor with which they enforce this policy? Records and testimonies of firings for failure to properly card would be a huge bonus.
This might accomplish two major things.
Number one, it would credibly demonstrate the primary importance of flavors in the lives of those who have become free of tobacco through vaping. The sales records would make that unassailably clear.
Number two, it would demonstrate that shop owners and operators are already deadly serious about keeping their products out of the hands of minors as far as they have the ability to do so. This would effectively place vaping products at the very same table as alcohol and tobacco. IN THE MINDS OF THE PUBLIC.
The combined conclusion of these two points, credibly and convincingly made, would be that flavors are vital to what ADULT vaping is and that all due diligence is already being employed to responsibly prevent minors from illegally obtaining vape products.
In short: Adults are the only people we sell to and our sales records show that flavors are just about all these ADULTS buy.
Forget for now about how healthy or unhealthy it is. If in the minds of at least some people, vaping can be equated with alcohol and tobacco, NObody is going to deny the disastrous effects that those can have in people's lives. Even if vaping is just as bad, why should it be treated any differently?
That in my view would cover at least SOME of the misinformation being shouted from the rooftops right now.
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Making it widely known that the nicotine based long established liquid that we vape is not what is causing this acute and deadly outbreak is a lot trickier. Unfortunately, that one is also a lot more important for the immediate future.
It appears to be legitimately true that many in the opposition don't actually understand the role that flavors have played and do play in the lives of legal adult vapors.
What if as many shops as possible provided actual copies of their sales records showing conclusively that almost all of their juice sales are of the flavored variety?
What if they also provided pix of the postings on their entry doors and in their stores clearly proclaiming their refusal to sell or in many cases even allow entry to minors without proper ID?
Along with video interviews of their managers and clerks convincingly testifying to the rigor with which they enforce this policy? Records and testimonies of firings for failure to properly card would be a huge bonus.
This might accomplish two major things.
Number one, it would credibly demonstrate the primary importance of flavors in the lives of those who have become free of tobacco through vaping. The sales records would make that unassailably clear.
Number two, it would demonstrate that shop owners and operators are already deadly serious about keeping their products out of the hands of minors as far as they have the ability to do so. This would effectively place vaping products at the very same table as alcohol and tobacco. IN THE MINDS OF THE PUBLIC.
The combined conclusion of these two points, credibly and convincingly made, would be that flavors are vital to what ADULT vaping is and that all due diligence is already being employed to responsibly prevent minors from illegally obtaining vape products.
In short: Adults are the only people we sell to and our sales records show that flavors are just about all these ADULTS buy.
Forget for now about how healthy or unhealthy it is. If in the minds of at least some people, vaping can be equated with alcohol and tobacco, NObody is going to deny the disastrous effects that those can have in people's lives. Even if vaping is just as bad, why should it be treated any differently?
That in my view would cover at least SOME of the misinformation being shouted from the rooftops right now.
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Making it widely known that the nicotine based long established liquid that we vape is not what is causing this acute and deadly outbreak is a lot trickier. Unfortunately, that one is also a lot more important for the immediate future.
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