I’d be embarrassed to make statements like those. But I guess when all you care about is power, embarrassment is not a consideration.As I see it, they are banning flavored nicotine e-liquids because people are dying from legal THC vapes bought from licensed dispensaries.
Somebody please pinch me.
Looks like Oregon is Gone.
Gov. Kate Brown bans all flavored e-cigarettes amid vaping-related lung illness epidemic
Yeah!As I see it, they are banning flavored nicotine e-liquids because people are dying from legal THC vapes bought from licensed dispensaries.
Somebody please pinch me.
That was my very first reaction when this all started. Vaping has been around more than 10 years and all of a sudden people are keeling over?One would think that people would realize that after about 12 years of vaping nic with flavors that there were no lung deaths, and only a few lung problems.
Googled "lung deaths vaping" with a custom time of Jan. 1, 2010 to Aug. 2018. Found this (despite all the hoopla regarding diacetyl):
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome From E-Cigarette Use
June 2018
After the results of a workup for an infectious etiology came back negative, the patient was diagnosed with hypersensitivity pneumonitis and intravenous methylprednisolone therapy was initiated. After this the patient rapidly improved, was weaned off vasopressor support, and was extubated. This is the first reported case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome as a risk of e-cigarette use in an adolescent, and it should prompt pediatricians to discuss the potential harms of vaping with their patients.
--- Although it didn't specify, this may have been the first case involving Juul/THC - just speculation based on experience of know how certain things are reported (or not reported).
That was my very first reaction when this all started. Vaping has been around more than 10 years and all of a sudden people are keeling over?
[and to Katya's comment]
One would think that people would realize that after about 12 years of vaping nic with flavors that there were no lung deaths, and only a few lung problems.
Googled "lung deaths vaping" with a custom time of Jan. 1, 2010 to Aug. 2018. Found this (despite all the hoopla regarding diacetyl):
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome From E-Cigarette Use
June 2018
After the results of a workup for an infectious etiology came back negative, the patient was diagnosed with hypersensitivity pneumonitis and intravenous methylprednisolone therapy was initiated. After this the patient rapidly improved, was weaned off vasopressor support, and was extubated. This is the first reported case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome as a risk of e-cigarette use in an adolescent, and it should prompt pediatricians to discuss the potential harms of vaping with their patients.
--- Although it didn't specify, this may have been the first case involving Juul/THC - just speculation based on experience of know how certain things are reported (or not reported).
And unless I've missed it, no one else has pointed it out. - meaning no one in the media or the "experts" they have on. We here know it well.
Yeah!
OK, help me everyone. You know those wacky packets we see on the news reports about this vaping thing? They're pods in stores with weird names, but retail, not street. Maybe synthetic THC or other stuff, IDK what the hell they are because I don't vape them. And I don't [just] mean anything that says "Dank" on it.
But aren't they flavored?
Is that what's going on?
I’d be embarrassed to make statements like those. But I guess when all you care about is power, embarrassment is not a consideration.
It sounds like horsepoo.
However, it does say this:
IDK how in her mind she's linked flavorings to the contaminant issue, but who knows? Further reason why the CDC needs to get this locked down.
She DID NOT say it was a "save the children" move that I saw. So this is directly vilifying flavorings as being implicated in these illnesses.
This. Makes. No. Sense.
The other stuff is a sham, but at least there's a sort-of-logic to it...if you really believed that flavoring is what is causing the youth vaping "epidemic". But this?
I. Don't. Understand.
Right, Also, please note that: "Her past medical history was significant for mild intermittent exertional asthma, with only rare use of inhaled albuterol. Recently the patient had a reaction (hives and lip swelling) to a Brazil nut that resolved with diphenhydramine."
So there's that.
Peanut butter is an excellent source of cheap protein for most, but may kill some. Just saying.
What we do know is our increased breathing capacity, improved sense of taste and smell, and whiter teeth are all positive signs.'We conclude that current knowledge of these effects is insufficient to determine whether the respiratory health effects of e-cigarette are less than those of combustible tobacco products'.
'We reiterate that, to date, no long term vaping toxicological/safety studies have been done in humans; without these data, saying with certainty that e-cigarettes are safer than combustible cigarettes is impossible'.
BMJ 2019;366:l5275
What we do know is our increased breathing capacity, improved sense of taste and smell, and whiter teeth are all positive signs.
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