Same, it’s a total lack of objectivity to claim that they are not aimed at kids.
If these are promoted as a healthy alternative to cigarettes, then that’s your marketing right there. Smoking is not allowed to be in funky colours and big marketing campaigns and this alternative shouldn’t either.
It shouldn’t be marketed to people who are not already smokers either, which most of the 20-30 year olds were not until they started vaping.
This is just profiteering from addiction again. Like gambling is, but it also comes with unknown long term health risks. We’ve been there before and can’t allow the same thing to go unchecked.
It's not, the objectivity is that they're aimed at younger adults and casual vapers, which may also incidentally appeal to a small minority of kids. It's not like they have Teletubbies smoking them, or have Tony the Tiger on the box, they don't do that as thair main income source is adults. I don't disagree that the Chinese might have been paying adult influencers to use them on their channels, and that some of their "influencers" viewers might be kids, which is of course wrong.
But the point is they're nowhere near as damaging as smoking, and there is little proof they're damaging at all, so hence the comparison to smoking is largely irrelevant. The only similarity is nicotine, which is no more dangerous than caffeine and the fact it's breathed in.
The other issue is equivalence, why no uproar or calls for bans on junk food (causing obesity in 2/3rds of adults, and half the kids), alcohol etc. The reason there is no talk about that (and likely why nobody has responded) is because everyone is doing it (including myself), but that doesn't mean it's safe/ healthy. But as a user of both I see the vaping as a much lesser risk, and to be honest it helps me stop from snacking, which is largely why I'm not overweight.
Alchohol gets marketed to non-drinkers, kids get specifically marketed junk food from the age they can first understand what food is.
The long-term health risks of every substance in vapes is known, with reasonable certainty, as they've all had a thousand safe uses in consumption for 50 years. The products themselves have been in used in combination for like 20 years, with no real signs of issues from approved/ legal devices.
It's profiting from a product, which people find relaxing, appetite suppressing, and which comes with a low risk, and may even lessen the overall obeisity risk. How is that worse than profiting from junk food, alchohol, restaurants, pubs, energy drinks? They're all worse for health.
As an example, if you have 2 people taking up vapes at a 1 in 10 risk, then this is a far better alternative than one person taking up smoking at 5/10 risk (cigarettes are still on sale, and will be for a long while. People will always do something, and if you take all options away then they just go down the illegal route, likely using things which are far worse.