New Category - Vaping - E-cigs - Nicotine

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theaggie94

July 01, 2015 17:01

It would be great if in addition to the "Tobacco" category there was a "Vaping, Nicotine, E-cig, Ecig" category. This is an explosive growth nicotine industry that is "un-admittedly" targeting youth.  Although "vaping" is safer than smoking in some ways and may be a great way for current smokers to taper and quit the habit, the industry has morphed into selling designer equipment and flavored liquids for largely unregulated delivery of a chemical substance, namely nicotine, largely to youth. How difficult would it be to have that added to the list? In addition nicotine acts on multiple receptors in the brain, thus altering them. Brain development during childhood years is crucial and largely ceases after the age of twenty-five. The more that development is chemically altered during youth, the greater the long-lasting effects. Article from Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/04/17/teen-vaping-triples-e-cigarettes-hookahs-threaten-drop-in-teen-tobacco-use/

I'm up to blocking about 15-20 sites already and still going.

Thanks!

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  rotblitz July 01, 2015 20:07

  What about two categories, one with filter, the other without?

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  mattwilson9090 July 02, 2015 22:11

  If it's a "nicotine industry" then how is it now properly classified as tobacco? Since this is just a subcategory related to tobacco, wouldn't we also need different subcategories for pipes, cigars, menthol cigarettes, etc?

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  theaggie94 July 06, 2015 18:02

  It doesn't really matter to me weather it's a subcategory or a category of its own. The problem is that the filter currently picks up most sites regarding pipes, cigars, menthol cigarettes, etc. The filter does not in any way seem to catch any of the vaping/e-cig sites. I would just like to be able to block any and everything having to do with nicotine, smoking, dipping, vaping, e-cigs, etc.

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  rotblitz July 06, 2015 19:10

  Then you want to submit the sites you're missing in the category Tobacco: 
  https://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/submit/

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  mattwilson9090 July 06, 2015 22:08

  To expand on rotblitz' answer domain tagging and categorization relies upon community participation. More than like these domains you are concerned about have not been tagged, or perhaps voted upon. It is not an automated system that crawls the entire internet looking for domains to categorize.

  As rotblitz said you should submit these domains you are concerned with at the link he provided. Since it may be a fairly large group of domains that are essentially a subgrouping of the existing category you could also open a support ticket and *after* tagging the domains to see if they get faster attention in finalizing their categorization.

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