CA already has laws limiting the sale of tobacco, e-cigarette, and vaping products to those 21 years old or older. There are plenty of legal consumers of vaping products. And many people use them as a safer (see UK study) alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes. This ban strikes me as "throwing out the baby with the bathwater".

If the cities and county are so paternalistic, why don't they also ban all tobacco products?

Just when tobacco use among youngsters was being held down, some enterprising drug dealers came up with vaping and flavors. - a new cool thing to do. If dumb adults want to kill or harm themselves vaping, it is a free country - although maybe we should prohibit them from getting a ride to the hospital or morgue at public expense. But when drugs trickle down to minors, we have a wholely different problem. Children and teens are becoming addicted and otherwise harmed before they can even grow up enough to know better.

Hi all, I am a Masters Student at Academy of Art University. Currently my team and I, are working on a Vaping Awareness Campaign as part of a final project under the mentorship of renowned photographer and social activist Benjamin Von Wong.

We are looking to create video content as well as photographs that will reach the teen demographic. We would love your help! If you would like to be interviewed and or have a part in the project please email me ASAP at julie8cremoux@gmail.com.

Ah, yet another case of leap before you look. Vaping products were sold and used safely for years before this sudden spike in deaths and the answer is to pass more restrictive laws and raise taxes or spend taxpayer money without even understanding what the underlying problem is first! I don't use vaping products and have no intention to ever do so in the future, but from the standpoint of civil liberties, I think that the problem should at least be fully understood before enacting a bunch of new restrictions on people just so that the elected class can say they 'did something'. Once they understand exactly what is causing the deaths, then they can discuss with the community what actions are necessary. If young people are illegally obtaining the products already, new laws will have no effect. In that case, the issue is strengthening ENFORCEMENT of existing laws. Something that many elected officials seem to always overlook.



Jim Neal
Modesto, Ca
(Formerly Old Mountain View)