Sooooo... where does advertising to children stop? Happy Meals? Candy? Why don't people get on the booze industry for flavored alcohol that is not liqueur? How about the stores that sell and advertise them? Alcohol destroys more lives than vape pens but is accepted. Obesity is and is going to cost super-fund quantities of money in medical.
How about candy in the shape of weapons? Cigar and cigarette shaped gum? Liquor stores have knives, man pills, and those previously mentioned flavored liquors on the check-out stand. If there are a hundred flavors of something, what do you name them? Flavor 1, Flavor 2, and so-on? Advertising is advertising.
Parents are the number one defense against kids getting into bad stuff. My parent's reasoning for not smoking is it smells bad. But most of my relatives smoked and got to chew a lot of gum. I started for peer pressure. Same with drinking. Alcohol tastes bad and is for adults. Peer pressure got me, again. Let's not talk about the sex talk I never had. Thank the gods for the peers. Guns? Oh, I knew what guns did pretty early and have always respected them. Hard drugs? Stories about my uncle.
Shall we talk about weed strain names? Shall we talk about social media?
More kids are hooked on sugar, caffeine, and junk food than are hooked on vape pens. Someone is going to pass me the empty pipe for saying this, but it is not advertisers/manufacturers fault that kids have access to their products. It is the fault of the people who sell the products to kids. The only way to stop people from using something is to get rid of it altogether.
I'mma gonna stop before I really get into the hypocrisies of people who say, 'Stop this bad thing but ignore these other bad things that I like.' And I'm rambling.
And I'm missing the Cowboys game and need to do some drugs.