OPINION: This China threat is even more dangerous to our kids than TikTok
Greedy opportunists, including unknown thousands of Chinese manufacturers, recognized FDA regulations only banned flavors in cartridge-based vapes. As a result of this loophole, disposable nicotine vapes in kid-friendly flavors have skirted regulation and found their way into schools, homes and teenage pockets. According to some reports, these disposables aren’t just enticing with flavors, they are turbocharged with illegal levels of nicotine to hook kids faster.
The bigger threat is the tsunami of counterfeit and poisonous flavored disposable nicotine vapes from China. In many cases, these products are only a click away with flavors like cherry pomegranate and kiwi passionfruit guava sold on"made in China" websites. Hyper-addictive, disposable nicotine vapes from China that escape supervision open up a whole world of risk. Unfortunately, addiction is the least that parents have to worry about. Products manufactured by established companies in the United States undergo some level of supervision to ensure safety standards are met. But once you enter the illicit market where products are smuggled from China, anything can end up in the lungs of a child.
Despite aggressive efforts by the FDA and policymakers at the federal, state and local level to combat the problem, the teen vaping epidemic mutated to escape regulation. Ohio Democrat Rep. Shontel Brown among others has also raised her voice to protect our kids. Illinois Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin recently wrote expressing his concern that the Biden administration has not acted decisively. Most recently Senate Majority Leader Schumer
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