{"id":1315085,"date":"2019-09-27T20:01:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=988326"},"modified":"2019-09-27T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T02:01:43","slug":"letter-vaping-regs-are-not-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/letter-vaping-regs-are-not-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Vaping regs are not wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish there were a way to count all the young people traveling to another town that allows the sale of flavored tobacco who are from Glenwood Springs and are going to die in a car accident, because local stores have to end sales of flavored tobacco next month.<\/p>\n<p>They saw youth are taking to this new vape craze. So? Every generation has its fashionable rage. Our wise council is going to add silly laws at every new rage?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aren\u2019t there more productive ways of going about helping youth not vape? Maybe we can use the alcohol module and make Glenwood Springs a dry town?<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I think it\u2019s unconstitutional to deprive a business of its livelihood. Just think: A pipe smoker will no longer be able to go to his local smoke shop and buy cherry tobacco for his pipe. A lady smoking a menthol cigarette will have to drive to Silt to get her normal pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Those young people the council is trying to help are going to die getting their vape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paramroop Khalsa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carbondale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-vaping-regs-are-not-wise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish there were a way to count all the young people traveling to another town that allows the sale of flavored tobacco who are from Glenwood Springs and are going to die in a car accident, because local stores have to end sales of flavored tobacco next month. They saw youth are taking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1315085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 01:24:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}