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Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should've looked into posting this in a different community.. It's closer to a silly "innovation".. soo.. is this considered FUD? I also don't support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had "privacy-violating" before the "solution".

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure it seems draconian, but how else are we going to get the kids to stop vaping and start smoking cigarettes like we did when we were in high school?

Won't someone please think of Phillip Morris' profit margins?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Doesn't Phillip Morris profit from vapes, too?

Bringing vapes as a popular nicotine delivery system is literally the way tobacco companies are able to proliferate and return smoking into fashion.

Also, smoking should be prohibited as well. Not only because it hurts the smokers themselves, but because others are affected without their consent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Your responding seriously to a joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Makes it funnier though, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes they profit from vapes, but they dont have as large a market share, as 'anyone' can make vape juice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's easier to make cigarettes than vape juice. Everyone can produce them.

No reason to believe it's any hard to build a similar monopoly on that, too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

A big salty tear.