F E AT U R E
VAPING ADVOCACY GROUPS TAKE FIRM STANCE ON
Irresponsible
Labeling of e-liquids
Part I
W o r d s & P h o t o s b y To n y O t t o m a n e l l i I I
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abeling e-liquids can
certainly be challenging.
Things to consider when
labeling your e-liquid include
health warnings, age
requirement, ingredients,
flavor profile and the amount of nicotine
inside.
However, the most important aspect of
designing a label, especially considering
the current controversy surrounding
Vaping, is to make sure that it cannot be
considered appealing to children.
The reason why the image of the
vape industry needs to be reputable
is because criticisms might harm the
changes that Vaping is making to society.
Vaping has been strategically thrown
under the Public Health sector’s
microscope with the FDA shining a
spotlight on it, salivating at the chance
to pass harsh regulations on the entire
industry, greatly affecting this consumerdriven resolution towards are reduction
of tobacco abuse. Y et, Vaping has very
recently been given some of the respect
it deserves.
A recent report released by the Royal
College of Physicians (RCP), Nicotine
without smoke: tobacco harm reduction
addresses the concerns that e-cigarettes
will increase tobacco smoking by
renormalizing the act of smoking.
Other concerns are that Vaping may
act as a gateway to smoking for young
people, and be used by smokers as only
a temporary rather than permanent cure.
RCO concludes, “To date, there is no
evidence that any of these processes are
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occurring to any significant degree in the
UK.”
There has also been a study funded by
our own Food and Drug Administration
from seven international tobacco control
experts, which concludes the FDA should
tread lightly when it issues its first-ever
set of rules on this unregulated $3.3
billion industry in the next few weeks.
But there is always a catch somehow.
For instance, While e-cigarettes might
improve lives, they also may entice
children to take up the nicotine habit –
especially when the industry is targeting
them with advertising and kid-friendly
flavor varieties.