Vapes disguised as school supplies and toys flood the market
Smoking is a harmful habit and it doesn’t matter what a person smokes - cigarettes, a pipe, or a fashionable vape. It is especially sad when children fall into such dependence. But not everyone is concerned about the problem of the younger generation. Some, on the contrary, are doing everything to ensure that schoolchildren waste money and harm their health. To make it easier for children to use vapes, manufacturers began to produce products in the form of various items, including school supplies.
Until recently, it was easy for teachers and parents to find and remove dangerous vaping devices from teenagers. Now everything has become much more complicated. On sale you can find vapes in the form of markers, ballpoint pens, flash drives and even phones. They are especially popular in the USA.
Stefan Bies, a Chicago patrol sergeant with more than 19 years of experience and a former school security officer, spoke to Fox News Digital about the problem. Bies says that the unusually shaped vapes can be easily purchased in any state in the United States. They are available not only in tobacco shops, but also in many regular stores.
Yes, this is not always legal, because the range includes devices with mango, strawberry-banana, blueberry and other attractive flavors.
This is how Stefan Bies summed up the situation briefly. He believes the attractive flavors and availability of these products are driving the youth vaping epidemic. The former policeman also added that the goods are imported from China and this flow is not regulated by anyone. No one even knows the composition of the liquids with which such products are charged.
Currently, 23 brands of tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes are approved for sale in the United States. Everything else is illegal and subject to confiscation from sellers and destruction. But it is almost impossible to control this huge market, so it is not difficult to buy prohibited fruit, confectionery and other “tasty” vapes.