It's sort of the hype of the moment. The "Puff" or disposable e-cigarette is gaining more and more followers who are sometimes young or even very young. In a recent article, our colleagues from 60 million consumers do not hesitate to castigate these products which, despite their usefulness, “have nothing insignificant about them”.
THE PUFF, A REAL TEENAGE TRAP?
For years, this seems to be the eternal debate. Is there a real link between vaping and youth? After the fruity e-liquids, the podmods, it's the turn of the " Puff or disposable e-cigarette to end up in the dock. For its part, 60 Millions de consommateurs refers to a product with " colors are eye-catching " and " accessible » resold by « number of undercover teenagers in playgrounds“. A bit reductive no?
In an always logical concern for responsibility, parents instead of educating their children accuse society, the manufacturers and sellers of the puff: « My 12-year-old son, in fifth grade, got a disposable e-cigarette from another student. It was written that there was 20 mg/ml of nicotine, but the font is tiny, you can hardly see it. » can we read in our colleagues.
60 million consumers also seem to be worried about the “ecological” aspect of this product, which must be thrown away in boxes for used batteries or electronic waste. Laughable, our colleagues even mix genres by wondering if “ will a teenager who bought his vaporizer under the coat throw it in a battery-powered trunk? "
Height of hypocrisy, a reader goes so far as to declare « There is no indication that it can be habit forming. I don't understand why there isn't at least one symbol on the object that indicates the dangerousness of the product ». Obviously, this statement is totally erroneous and even goes against what 99% of manufacturers and retailers who care about the health of their customers offer. Because indeed, some media and associations forget that the electronic cigarette exists to compensate for smoking, a
real plague.
Yet it remains so much easier to criticize a product that is certainly far from perfect but so useful and effective. Nicotine, a real punching bag for too long even though the population consumes antidepressants galore, codeine and morphine to relieve pain without ever thinking of those who are addicted to them. So, we must not deny anything, some teenagers do indeed use e-cigarettes whether they are disposable or not, but is that a reason to make them a real "monster" even though millions of people are probably avoiding cancers and diseases? by using these same products instead of tobacco?
Today, it would be good to meditate without forgetting that a teenager is no safer with a can of soda, a fast food, a smartphone addiction than with a simple “puff”. The world of vaping has been waiting for years for the number of deaths attributed to e-cigarettes… in vain!
