It's the turn of California this week to jump on the political bandwagon and show the voters how caring they are. The California Assembly voted on plugging a loophole in the law and p rohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes to minors . This meant extending the ban to include devices that don't include nicotine cartridges.





It wasn't exactly a close vote, 75-0 was more like the result of an American Football game between an NFL side and some college students. It's sad that not a single politician could decide that e-cigarettes don't contain tobacco and shouldn't be treated like tobacco products. They took their action after reading about the fact that the number of high school students using e-cigarettes tripled between 2013 and 2014. It's an old survey that keeps popping up all over the States, strange how the positive ones about the product always seem to stay hidden out of sight. OK so the number of high school students are using e-cigarettes. Well good on them for deciding that it's much better to do so rather than stick a poisonous and far more addictive tobacco cigarette in their mouth.





State law had only prohibited minors from purchasing vaping devices with nicotine cartridges. However clever students had realized they could buy e-cigarettes separately and use them with cartridges that contained other substances such as marijuana. Now if that's what they are doing then it's not the fault of the e-cigarette industry is it? But it doesn't stop publications and politicians from taking the opportunity to criticize the e-cigarette industry.





Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) thought it'd be a good time to start going on about how the e-cigarette industry uses flavors such as Gummy Bears, Skittles and Kool-Aid to attract youngsters to the product. That's the same youngsters that vaping lounges would refuse entry to and refuse to sell e-cigarettes to. Why can't politicians ever listen and realize that the flavors are marketed at ex-smokers who are trying to give up their deadly habit before it's too late and the flavors help them to do so.



