I've never paid attention to Juul marketing, so perhaps they were committing faux pas in their targeting, but the existence of a bubble gum (or other enjoyable flavors) should probably not meet the threshold as readily as we allow it.
Juice companies, for the most part, are just throwing together vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol, and a couple of commercially available food/candy flavorings.
People love to bring up the "Adult flavors" argument like it's as simple as deciding to make juice that tastes like coffee, like they've forgotten that some companies have trouble producing coffee that tastes like coffee.
I abhor the tobacco industry. I wish their execs had been thrown behind bars decades ago. They've proven that they'll put profit over human life and that they're willing to lie to our faces while they do it. They've earned all the skepticism and scrutiny they get, but I can't get over how baseless and absurd that argument against them was. Ads with colors and young adults in them aren't targeting children. There is plenty of evil to point at without getting ridiculous.
If the public benefit is that current tobacco-smokers will switch, then the experience only needs to be better than cigarettes - broad appeal beyond that is only a net negative for society.
I put up with it like I accept that people fart. Being around “vape smoke’ is something between discomfort and disgust (smell, smoke, etcetera), Ugggh. Yes: I have close friends that vape. No: I don’t complain to them or make faces or anything.
Even if I were hypothetically shown it was a purely nonsensical psychological dislike, that doesn’t mean I could stop disliking it.
I think there is great value in considering this possibility, and all others. The problem I am trying to get at is that people have a tendency to not be terribly interested in what is true.
"Bubble gum" flavor is a combination of fruity flavors. No mint.
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/what-is-bubblegum-flavo...
> People think it’s a made-up flavour but it isn’t.
It is a made-up flavor, originally created by Thomas Adams.
Other sources disagree.
https://candyflavor.com/How_To_Make_Bubble_Gum_Flavor.html
> the key is really in the wintergreen, cinnamon and clove
It tastes a bit of bubblegum!
> 3 parts banana flavor, 3 parts pineapple flavor, 2 parts wintergreen, 1 part cinnamon and 1 part clove.