The addictive part is the main issue. People don’t smoke for 30 years because it tastes good, and I don’t think vapes are any different.
I don’t think kids would ever DIY non-nicotine vapes enough to cause a public health crisis. Kids could have huffed Halloween fog machines in the 90s but they didn’t.
Vapes are very different. Im speaking from experience. Switching from smoking to vaping is way harder than quitting vaping.
I don't doubt that. What I'm saying is that, if health concerns with vaping is justified because it's safer than smoking, then it makes sense as a cessation product. But that's not the way they're currently marketed, regulated, and sold. But, being "safer than smoking" is not a justification for hooking a new generation of consumers who didn't previously smoke.
None of the things you need to DIY a vape can be controlled because its all common of the shelf stuff used for many things.
The only thing you can control is nicotine. And i can also order it from china, and the chinese always forget to label the concentration correctly or mention it at all.
So, i think this wont stop kids, but might stop adults from switching to vaping. Because nicotine free vaping is impossible to effectively ban, trivial to DIY. And the nicotine part that you can try to control (e.g. india does) is only really interesting to existing smokers, but also: chinese labeling.
Last but not least, i'm not sure i would have ever went and gotten a prescription. Probably not. The extremely low barrier of entry and ~100x cheaper were important factors for me.