11/05/2019
And this has been my exact complaint for years:
I'm not much of a drinker, but when I drink, it's been a cocktail consisting of vodka - and when the flavors came out, you bet I wanted to try wedding cake and fruit punch and whipped cream, just to check out the flavors.
But when all of this hogwash with va**ng flavors hit - that we are "*OBVIOUSLY*" aiming for children with the flavors, my immediate thought was about the vodkas.
Drinking and driving kills teens by the thousands each year.
I lost 5 friends to it when I was a teen, myself.
Alcohol poisoning also has caused comas and death of teens.
Keep in mind, MOST teens could never afford the high shelf vodkas.
They drink to get drunk, to party, to look older...
The flavors could be "p**p" and they would still drink it to rebel and be "cool", like most of us did.
Regardless, drinking has caused more deaths of young people, than even those illegal, underground bootleg thc pods.
Where was the outrage, then, on flavored alcohol?
Where was the media?
Where were the politicians voting on shutting down any and all liquor stores that sold any "kid flavored" liquors?
Why didnt they go after Absolut and Skyy and Schapps, etc?
Newsflash:
Adults love cake too!
We love fruity flavors.
We love candy.
But they dont go after the liquor stores and companies because that is extreme and irrational to stop selling flavors that adults love because of those cases, where teens do what they want to do sometimes.
This has been the biggest red flag to me of all - that this is solely for benefiting big to***co, (and big pharma - think of how much money they are losing on people getting healthier by switching to va**ng).
So this whole farce has made me ill.
I will never trust the fda again on what they claim is safe or unsafe.
They KNOW va**ng is safer than smoking. They have been inside our own business's laboratory, where we make ni****ne e-liquids.
We passed with flying colors because we are clean, we are using all safe ingredients, THEY KNOW.
Yet they allow misinformation to spread.
It's a sad time when we cant trust the people we should be able to trust regarding our health.
Sadder; that they would rather smoking continue killing millions of people, because of money.
This was never about health, or kids, or regulations.
It has always been about money.
Makes me sick.