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Erich Roney runs three vape shops in the D.C. Metro Area, but the fear building around e-cigarettes is making business tough.

Roney is the district manager of VaporFi, a group of vape shops that also carry CBD oil with a location in the Georgetown neighborhood. Roney told 最新蜜桃影像 that recent news about vaping-related illnesses and deaths have hurt business, and the fear surrounding the news of sickness and potential regulation has 鈥渁bsolutely鈥� hurt sales.

鈥淚 have a lot of customers that are concerned. You鈥檝e got a lot of people stating how they don鈥檛 know what they鈥檙e going to do because this is the only thing that鈥檚 helped them quit smoking. So if they don鈥檛 have the flavors, they don鈥檛 really know what their options are,鈥� Roney said.

He said that people are calling with questions and stockpiling liquids, unsure if they鈥檙e ever going to be able to get them again.

According to the , or the CDC, at least seven people have had deaths related to vaping, and hundreds more have been hospitalized and injured. While no major agencies, including the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),聽have established a clear link between vaping and these health issues both urged caution.

Roney said that he hasn鈥檛 seen anyone with any serious health effects in his store from vaping. The most he said he鈥檚 seen is irritation caused by someone drawing vapor in a way that isn鈥檛 consistent with the vape鈥檚 design.

Maura Byrne is a student who uses Juuls. She鈥檚 not too worried about the scenario and thinks that people are ignoring the real culprit and instead focusing on the hysteria surrounding vaping itself.

鈥淚f you do a lot of deeper research, it鈥檚 mostly a lot of black market THC carts, and I don鈥檛 use those, so I鈥檓 not worried,鈥� Byrne said.

The Trump administration has been floating the idea of banning flavored e-cigarettes. Proponents of the ban say that this would shut down a market that disproportionately targets younger demographics, such as college and high school students.聽

Elizabeth McDermott is the nurse at Georgetown Day School. While she said vaping and e-cigarette use isn鈥檛 an issue at the middle school, the school faces problems on their high school campus.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 think they should be sold,鈥� McDermott said.

McDermott highlighted the fact that the products often mimic general household supplies, such as flash drives or inhalers, thereby allowing students the potential to bring them into schools.聽

She also pointed to the plethora of flavors available. Along with the way that the vapes and e-cigarettes are packaged and designed, they can include things such as superheroes, which target younger demographics. Additionally, she said that since they don鈥檛 smell, they鈥檙e easier for avoiding detection from parents with covert usage.

Critics of further vaping restrictions, such as Roney, argue that the negative press surrounding vaping is a result of mixed messaging and that fears are overblown and misdirected. Roney told 最新蜜桃影像 the latest talk of vaping regulation is a 鈥渒nee-jerk reaction.鈥�

鈥淭he general public has some idea that we offer flavors to entice kids, which is a crazy assumption to me because you can do a Google search for alcohol. There鈥檚 doughnut flavored alcohol, there鈥檚 cotton candy, sherpert, all these types of alcohols are flavored in cotton candy kind of ways. We offer the same flavors that they would, it鈥檚 no different,鈥� Roney said.

Roney emphasized that alcohol is marketed as an adult beverage, while he markets vaping as an adult tool to get off nicotine and tobacco.

He said that most of his customers are former smokers and he very rarely has customers that want to start vaping because they think it鈥檚 鈥渃ool.鈥澛�

Despite the anecdotal evidence, whether or not e-cigarettes help people quit smoking traditional tobacco products isn鈥檛 definite.聽

鈥淓-cigarettes containing nicotine have the potential to help some individual adult smokers reduce their use of and transition away from cigarettes. However, e-cigarettes are not currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a quit smoking aid, and the available science is inconclusive on whether e-cigarettes are effective for quitting smoking,鈥� said the CDC in a August 30th.

Roney said that the regulation isn鈥檛 new and that regulation by the FDA has existed since 2016. The was a blanket regulation that covered all tobacco products.

He said the liquids that he sells at his shop are trackable, right down to the lab and the shipment. He said that the issue should be likened to that of a bad batch of food, such as with bad batches of tuna or lettuce, where that particular brand had that single batch pulled.