I don't find it too surprising really. Alcohol is over on the "good" side of the list (despite having a godawful safety profile.)

Give them time. They're too busy harassing trans kids and trying to re-criminalize cannabis to notice right now.

And I gave a senior an extra buck behind the convenience store to grab a pack for me when he was grabbing packs for the other kids that had also done the same. I remember one of them was rolling joints and I probably could have bought one of those, too, while I was there, or maybe even something harder.

So the law didn't stop me from getting smokes despite no machine being involved but it did give me reason to be in contact with people who could get a bunch of other things, too.

Fuck. Them. Kids.

If their useless parents can't parent them, that's the parents' failing. Flavored vapes and flavored cigarettes absolutely should not be banned, that was the top of a slippery slope and the people who'll gleefully go sledding down it should be openly mocked for their pathetic desires to Disnify the real world by everyone literate enough to know that the bottom of that slope is prohibition style gang wars. Nobody who wants to make something completely inaccessible to adults is interested in "protecting children", they're interested in controlling adults.