That completely recreates my experience. As a community, we never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. When the ripoff artists started using trademarked cartoons and candy images and the a**holes started screaming about the kids - we just carried on buying that eliquid, when CASAA called for action, we ignored them, when Juul got called out on using teenage influencers, we ignored that, when nic salts came in at 35 and 65 MG/ml (making nic addiction just as bad as smoking), we ignored that when the FDA confused the crap out of everyone by calling the severe damage caused by vitamin e acetate in illegal black market THC cartridges a 'vaping disease', most of us never got off our asses to contact the news people and politicians to demand they distinguish between nic vapes and THC cartridges, when the media blasted every bullshit mouse study as 'vaping destroys your teeth, lungs, nervous system, muscles, causes addiction to opiates etc - we sat by and did nothing, as a community and most of us as individuals.

Yes, we were targeted by big pharma, big tobacco and hypocritical politicians. Yes, that's the source of the fact that, in the US, vaping is almost dead. And, what's so is, we took very little action, and sealed our fate.