Michigan's New Anti-Vape Rules Are Totally Insane
Look, vaping isn’t very good for you. Is it the worst thing you could do to your body? Of course not. But does enthusiastically sucking in a witches brew of chemicals represent an objective health risk? Duh. Still, as anti-vape hysteria ramps up around the country—with executive orders in Michigan, New York, and potentially nationwide as well—it’s become pretty clear that this is all getting pretty fucking ridiculous.
Take, for example, Michigan’s recently enacted e-cig regulations, ordered into effect by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer earlier this month as part of a broader anti-vape effort to curb usage among minors. As Jesse Kelley and Carrie Wade of the conservative R Street Institute think tank note in a recently published opinion piece for The Detroit News, the new rules criminalize anyone simply owning four or more flavored (that is, anything that isn’t flavorless or simply “tobacco flavored”) vape products, because that person is “presumed to possess said items with the intent to sell.”