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AB-1043 “Age verification signals: software applications and online services.”
Text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
Other info https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
California AB 1043 signed. Mandatory os-level, device-level, app store, and even developer-required age verification for all computing devices.
Edit: altered title from “ID check” to “Age Verification check”
Well, we as a state voted to ban flavored tobacco products when like 10 kids were getting popcorn lung from black market THC oil carts.
And selling tobacco to minors here is highly illegal, as it should be. So I never understood why we banned flavored tobacco, when the kids were getting issues from black market THC carts, which they also shouldn’t have been sold/using.
Not even getting into how the law didn’t stop flavored alcohol, we can still buy bubblegum flavored vodka here.
So even in the 2nd most Democrat leaning state, we still push for the dumbest laws. This was a state wide vote, not something the Senate/Assembly voted on.
It was a pretty big problem, not just a few kids. That outrage killed the diluent and thickener market for squaline and mineral oils. I learned way more than I ever wanted about how people cut oil based products for looks and consumption. It ended up that basically the entire industry was using products that weren’t new but we’re now being used at the rate of millions of gallons. Honeycut was the big name that was being sold by the 55 gallon drum.
If you vaped during that time, you likely put mineral oil into yours lungs. Black and gray market it’s still a problem, and those cutting agents were making it to the retail market by the time it got better.
I can report here that my fellow cigarette smokers in Illinois are still happy to be puffing their cancer sticks because flavored nicotine vapes are worse, and cause popcorn lung, so I should just keep smoking cigs.
Dumbest laws are pushed because we have the dumbest peoples.
the popcorn lung shit is such old news that people who bring it up have no idea what they are talking about. it was related to a chemical called Diacetyl. The popcorn lung name was from a industrial incident where workers were making popcorn with diacetyl as the flavoring, and there was an accident and they inhaled diacetyl vapors. There was no study done to say the levels in e-liquid cause this “popcorn lung” but e-liquid companies were so scared it would ruin their business that most removed the flavoring from their recipes, and the ones that contained it, had a warning that it had diacetyl, all without the goverment stepping in. vaping gets so much flak from the shit big-tobacco has done in the past decade and its sad where it is now, where people buy disposables and its just a dead market then what it used to be. just to put things into context here in canada. a 60ml bottle of eliquid used to cost 20-30 CAD before the “sin tax”. now, it costs 55-60 CAD for the same bottle. want to bypass the tax and DIY? sorry, nicotine bases to mix only go up to 20mg/ml FOR THE WHOLE BOTTLE meaning that if you want to make your juice, the whole bottle of nicotine base you bought is used for ONE BOTTLE MIX and is subjet to the sin tax. before you could buy a 100mg/ml bottle of nicotine for 40 bucks and it would last your months while you had your flavorings, and PG/VG bases.
Flavored tobacco used to only target minorities so it was OK. There are documentaries about this showing how much more flavored tobacco was advertised in lower socio-economic areas.
Once children started vaping the CA govt stepped in.
If you oppose the ban I have to assume because you don’t know where to get menthol cigs anymore. I live in Oakland and can still find Newports. I quite smoking them over 25 years ago but know more than one place that sells them.
edit - this thread is about age verification. not sure why you think tobacco bans are remotely close.
I don’t smoke period so I don’t mind it. I found the reasoning banning it was stupid, because the boomer voting base didn’t understand the reason for the Prop being drawn up.
Talking about a dumb law being passed, so I talked about a dumb law being passed. I said that a state of Democrat voters and Democrat Assembly members doesn’t mean they always pass the best/logical bills. Better than if the state was ran by Republicans, but so is every state.