LETTER FROM THE
Patrick Griffin - Editor
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VAPOUROUND
These are worrying times for the global vaping
industry. I don’t ever remember a time when vaping
was under such a sustained attack as it is now.
Politicians, the media and those with their own
agendas have whipped up a tsunami of wild
hysteria where the entire vaping industry has been
pilloried and demonised like never before.
Is it perhaps a little opportunist that politicians have
moved so quickly to introduce emergency flavour
bans “to protect the youth of America” following the
“vape lung” hospital admissions crisis? I think
not.
I could understand the concern if vaping
commercial e-cigarettes was to blame.
I could understand calls to stop using e-cigarettes,
at least for the time being, if vaping commercial
e-cigarettes was to blame.
I could even understand the hysterical media
coverage if vaping commercial e-cigarettes
was to blame.
Editor
But our industry is not to blame. Drug peddlers
unleashing fatal, black market products onto the
market are to blame.
As we report elsewhere in this issue, Professor
Michael Siegel from Boston University, said of the
current health scare: “The majority of the observed
cases are associated with the use of THC oils that
were obtained from unlicensed sellers.”
What a mess we are now in. The hysteria, the
media scare stories and the flavour bans will force
vape businesses to close, turn current vapers back
to smokers and see an unregulated black market
of untested vape flavours spring up and flourish.
This magazine is dominated by these stories and
I urge each and every one of you to read them all,
encourage your friends to do so and take acton to
save our industry.
We need to fi ght this madness now, while we still
have an industry left to fi ght for.
Patrick Griffi n. Editor - Vapouround.
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