Canada

I watched a video of Guy who collected a ton of them off the ground and built a USB power bank with them. They were rechargeable li on batteries. It is crazy.

Huh.

I thought about going into all of that, but at this point in the US it's still mostly speculative, since they haven't gotten the bans in place yet, and these pretentios fucksticks would never believe it anyway.

I didn't know that it's actually happened in Australia. That's unfortunate, but it'll provide me with an example in the future.

It's a fairly standard corporate move though. The biggest corporations lobby for a bunch of restrictions and requirements on their own industry because they're in a position to meet them, but they'll serve as a barrier to entry for potential competition.

So it's possible - arguably even likely - that these self-righteous asshats crying about the evil tobacco companies are actially effectively (or even literally) working for those very companies.

Which is just another reason why I have nothing but scorn and disdain for them.

Nicotine juice has been flavored from the very start. Way back in the day when premixed juices didn't even exist and vapers - who were pretty much exclusively smokers looking for a safer alternative - had to buy propylene glycol and nicotine extract and mix it themselves, we also bought flavoring, because the simple fact of the matter is that unflavored nicotine juice doesn't taste like cigarettes - it tastes sorr of like hand sanitizer mixed with ear wax.

This whole uproar about flavored vapes is a bizarre fiction being promoted by busybody assholes and idiots - by crusading fuckwads using something they self-evidently know absolutely nothing about to feed their desperate and pathetic need to feel self-righteous.

After thirty years of trying and failing to quit smoking, vaping is almost certainly the only reason I'm alive today, and these foul busybody shitbags want to ruin that for me and everyone else in the same position, and bluntly, fuck them. They're fucking scum.

Why would vaping have to lead to smoking for nicotine addiction to be bad?

Going from smoking to vaping is a massive improvement. Basically zero downsides.

Starting a nicotine addiction is still detrimental to your health.

Grey market is king, I've seen a 3000mg edible. Sadly I didn't have a week off work so I couldn't buy it...

All of it. Don't fucking ban stuff for adults; monitor your children.

Harm reduction means preventing addiction. Flavored tobacco products have always been about getting people addicted early - because that's when it works. That's when this highly addictive drug creates dependency. Especially if taken in high doses with rapid absorption... which is downright pleasant, if it tastes like candy, instead of licking an ashtray.