How do you think of the lung illness news below?

[Usonicig_Cecily]

Recently I read a news about vaping as below:

There are 380* cases of lung illness reported from 36 states and 1 U.S. territory. Six deaths have been reported from 6 states.
All reported cases have a history of e-cigarette product use or vaping.
Most patients have reported a history of using e-cigarette products containing THC.
Many patients have reported using THC and nicotine.
Some have reported the use of e-cigarette products containing only nicotine.

How do you think of this news?

 

[Georgia Boy]

BS They are almost exclusively black market products causing this issue but our wonderful politicians, as usual, believe what they want and what they want is more tobacco revenue in Taxes and Donations.

 

[icepickmaker84]

According to random people on the streets I’m going to die lol.

 

[ruet]

This is what I think of...

How Many People Have Died From Falling Down Stairs?

 

[sonicbomb]

An exact equivalent would be banning all alcohol if a number of people were injured and/or died from tainted home brew.
The powers that have aligned against vaping have stepped up their game.

 

[zoiDman]

What do I Think?

I think that if I was buying Illegal THC Carts from Street Dealers that I would be Very Hesitant to tell someone in the Media I was. And would Most Likely just say I used Nicotine Only.

I also think that the Media has Crossed the Last Line when people are getting Sick, and in some cases Dying, by Not Making a Clear Distinction between the Use of Nicotine and the Use of THC when they say the word "Vaping".

Being Anti e-Cigarettes and Pro THC is Fine. But using All This as a way to Slam e-Cigarettes while Soft Pedaling THC is Unconscionable when People have Died.

 

[Beamslider]

Moral of the story.....Don't buy stuff on the street and vape it

 

[bombastinator]

There are a couple other threads on this topic and at least one new subform section was created just because of it. It just today caused me to spend a hundred bucks.

It has a lot of misinformation wrapped up in it. Some people think it could be the end of e-cigarettes. I don’t know one way or another yet but it’s possible.

It will change things massively there is no doubt. It makes me angry mostly because it’s based almost entirely on misdirection. One thing is being blamed for the damage caused by a different thing.

The base issue is actually counterfeiting. Children bought not e-cigarette products but cannabis products they thought were safe but they weren’t because they were trusting packaging rather than contents and they died.

The effect is the group of interests that want to kill e-cigarettes are capitalizing on the hardware similarities between e-cigarettes and cannabis products to conflate them and are leveling laws not at cannabis products but at e-cigarettes.

 

[Jwaterski]

Ban air, don't know what all of them vaped, but I am certain every single one of them took a breath or two of air prior to becoming ill.

 

[Georgia Boy]

According to random people on the streets I’m going to die lol.

Commiserations should we wear black?

 

[icepickmaker84]

Commiserations should we wear black?

Tie dye please.


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[Georgia Boy]

That would be AWESOME. Playing Grateful Dead as well

 

[sonicbomb]

ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2019/09/smoke-free-by-2030.html

"The UK, along with a handful of other nations such as Canada and New Zealand, has pushed on with a more liberal policy, but negative stories created by a sophisticated and well-financed campaign against vaping. Perhaps the most recent is the worst, with the use of illegal drugs and oils (known to cause respiratory illnesses when vaped) being deliberately conflated with vaping legal e-liquid."