Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that her state would become the first in the country to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes
-related death in Illinois and a second potential death in Oregon. In Michigan, six potential vaping-related illness cases are currently under review, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.
But in terms of the larger conversation currently unfolding about the health risks of e-cigarette use, Whitmer’s drastic action is certainly a step in the right direction, says Dr. Robert Jackler, a professor at Stanford University and principal investigator atBanning flavored e-cigarettes reduces the risk of young smokers becoming hooked on vaping, while simultaneously ensuring that e-cigarettes are still available as a cessation method for adults who smoke traditional tobacco cigarettes.
But while banning flavored e-cigarettes will undoubtedly prevent new underage consumers from becoming hooked on e-cigarettes, it likely won’t do much to curb the black market proliferation of e-cigarettes, predominantly on the internet, where such markets thrive. “If you ban it in Michigan, people will just go to Indiana and load up their truck with flavored e-cigarettes,” Jackler says.
in response to the Michigan ban, expressing concern that it could lead to the explosion of black-market sales. But in the case of e-cigarettes, such concerns may be particularly trenchant: though the CDC has declined to provide specific numbers, as, many of the more than 300 recent cases of lung ailments attributed to vaping that are being investigated by the CDC have been the result of young people purchasing black-market THC cartridges, not mass-produced e-cigarettes from companies like Juul.
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