Forbes: How Lawmakers Bungled Vape-Lung Crisis Response

[LoveVanilla]

Banning Flavored JUUL Pods Is Actually Dangerous: Study Shows How Lawmakers Bungled Vape-Lung Crisis Response

... it’s been just shy of a year sine U.S. regulators and public health officials started banningflavored nicotine vaporizer pods—the main policy response to the “vape-lung crisis,” the outbreak of “e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury,” or “EVALI.”

And not only was that exactly the wrong thing to do—once-legal products like flavored juul pods, banned in the wake of EVALI, have not been linked to the crisis—such bans can make vaping more dangerous, recent research from the Yale School of Public Health has found.

It’s no accident that the EVALI outbreak prompted policy responses—i.e., bans—and it’s also no accident that those policy responses ha d nothing to do with EVALI, and were exactly what certain advocates had been pushing all along. T

 

[CarolT]

"If they were smart, they might push rules for 'smarter e-cigarette devices,' vaporizers that don’t work with bootleg cartridges."

Then they could just make their own devices. Perhaps even "ghost" devices, like ghost guns, assembled from separate parts.