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Countries Are Banning Vapes - Should More Do the Same?
Should more countries ban vapes?
What’s the story?
- Countries worldwide are introducing legislation to ban or restrict vapes due to concerns over their popularity among youth, lack of regulatory control, and environmental impact.
Where are the bans?
- Australia has announced a ban on single-use, disposable vapes and will limit nicotine vaping products to prescription use.
- From July 1, 2023, the Netherlands will ban the production of flavored e-cigarettes and refill e-liquids.
- In 2022, China, the primary producer of vapes, banned non-tobacco flavored vapes.
- Other countries like Brazil and Argentina have outrightly banned vaping, including the sale, production, import, and advertising of e-cigarettes.
- In the U.S., the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) banned JUUL vaping and e-cigarette products after finding the company specifically targeted young people with their fruit-flavored pods and marketing tactics.
Arguments for a vape ban
- Marketing and availability of affordable single-use vapes have contributed to their surging popularity among younger individuals. Around 2.5 million adolescents in the U.S. vape, and teen vaping has more than doubled from 2017 to 2019.
- The long-term health effects of e-cigarettes remain unknown, but recent reports have associated frequent vaping with hard-metal lung disease and chemical burns in lung tissue.
- Disposable vapes contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, plastic, and toxic metals, contributing to non-recyclable electronic waste. In the UK, an estimated 1.2 million single-use vapes are thrown away every week.
Arguments against a vape ban
- Vaping is a safer alternative to smoking and could be beneficial for adults seeking to quit cigarettes.
- While vaping is not risk-free, research has estimated it’s around 95% safer to vape nicotine than to smoke tobacco. They say limiting access and appeal to less harmful vaping products while allowing cigarettes to remain on the market fails to protect public health.
Should more countries ban vapes?
-Laura Woods
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Vapes should be controlled & taxed like tobacco products with all tax proceeds going to healthcare (Medicare, Medicaid, TriCare, Veterans) to fund medical care that will be needed for poor health outcomes.
I was a life long smoker, but with the use of vape products, I quit last year.
I oppose bans on adult products. If we are going to act like we care about public health institute national healthcare, and housing for all.
if you support this ban-do you support banning sugar in drinks?
how about we stop subsidizing the meat industry? force people to go vegan. its much healthier.
Alchohol is a very dangerous drug- ban that too.
we could also force people to excersize first thing in the morning by making their T.V. tell them to befor it allows you to watch anything.
see where I am going with this? so why go after vapes? it seems strange.
also, many local shops have opened up- where is the outcry in support of small businesses?
The US needs to restrict vapes due to the lack of regulatory control, and the environmental impact.
Single-use Vapes? Eliminated.
Limit availability to adults? Yes!
Issue clear regulations to the industry? Yes.
Mandate warnings? Yes.
They should be banned.
No. If people want to harm themselves that is their right. Treat it like cigarettes or alcohol. You can't have it until you are an adult, old enough to understand the consequences of your choices.
There's nothing really healthy about vapes, and their hazards outweigh the possibility of their being used as a transition away from tobacco.
If countries care about public health and want to ban vapes, I support this.
I also think states in our country should be allowed to ban them as well.
Please do not ban vapes. As a non-smoker and non-vaper, I support people's freedoms to make bad health choices for themselves that do not affect others. A ban on vapes would create a slippery slope leading to bans of other products.
We have much bigger things to accomplish.