I mean, if Trump ended fake news ... he'd never be allowed to speak again ... but that's another conversation in probably another forum
I do, however, agree that news should be held to a higher standard and report facts, not sensationalize everything, be intentionally misleading, or spread falsehoods.
On topic - I think each 5% Juul pod has a total of 40mg .. on average, a cigarette has 12mg of nicotine .. so you'd need to smoke 3.33 cigarettes to equal one Juul pod. Obviously a lie there.
I'm pretty sure that kid was paid to say what he said ... I doubt he had cold sweats in the middle of the night .. I smoked for nearly 27 years and I've never had that happen, even when I tried quitting cold turkey ;p
They said nicotine was addictive, which is true, but they never went into any health risks associated with just being addicted to nicotine.
Saw this in an article I read:
Which I agree with. Any health consequences should be studied, and we should be made aware if any arise.
Parents should be concerned with what their kids do, sure ... but they should also be concerned with HOW their kids are getting vaping equipment. Kids will always find a way to do things they aren't allowed to do ... smoke, drink, vape, etc. Not sure why vaping is under the microscope while kids are still smoking cigs and drinking.
You can't just blame one side of the aisle or another. Both sides of the aisle are selling (or buying) and then publishing bogus information. All the science in the world won't change that. You could have 300,000,000 studies all point to the same evidence and out of those 75% will say "This is good." 10% of them will say "This is bad." and 15% will come up with no conclusion either way. And that's even WITH the same criteria, same equipment, same everything.
The problem is "How do we interpret this?" For the vast majority of intelligent people, they would interpret it in a proper way. They would take the data laid out for them, and draw their own conclusions. For the rest, they will believe whatever everybody feeds them. They're not interested in results, they're not interested in science or facts, they're not interested in the work being done for them, they're just interested in believing what they're told.
The sad reality, is this applies across the board with many things. Up to and including e-cigarettes.
As for the rest of your statements I agree with. Just the political thing(s), keep it out of here.
I agree that PARENTS need to teach their kids better. We need to stop coddling teens. When I was a teen, it didn't matter what I did, but if it was wrong, I paid the consequences for it. If I screwed up (as most teenagers do), do you think my parents were there to bail my behind out? NOPE! I not only got just rewards, but I got a second helping of .... kickings as well. As for kids doing what kids are going to do, I think a lot of that has to do with parents almost having power completely removed from them. You can't so much as raise your voice to your kids out of fear of getting punished by the state anymore. As it "damages their ability to reason" or "hurts their feelings". No, yelling at my kids for being a jackass doesn't "hurt" or "hinder" anything, its either they get yelled at, or I resort to other means of discipline, IE Making them hold a stack of DVD's straight out in front of them until the lactic acid builds up in their shoulders and makes their arms hurt. I've done it before, it taught them quickly to clean up their crap.
I also think people AND BUSINESSES need to be more responsible for checking ID's. It wouldn't hurt to hire an extra person just to sit by the door and check ID's. It saves you from a lawsuit, it saves you from giving the industry a bad name, and it saves you earning a bad rep for terrible business practices. As for second hand trading and the like - kids need to learn to be more responsible. If you get caught with something you shouldn't have in the first place, maybe you should be fined. Get caught with alcohol below 21? get fined, get caught with cigarettes or e-cigarettes below 18 (or 21 depending on where you live), get fined. Get caught trading, selling, or giving someone under the legal age? Get fined. Don't pay your fines? Get locked up. Enough is enough of people doing crap that they know hurts an industry. When you hurt an industry you eventually close down business, when you close down business, then you have a whole string of other bad things happening.
Which adds to the whole ring of - if you're below an age and you get fined, usually their parents will find out, and if their parents find out and they happen to be decent parents, paying their kids' fines would be off the table. Or if they do pay their kids' fines, then I'd only hope and pray that their kids would be held more accountable for their actions... maybe? Just an idea?
would be nice if trump ended fake news
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Oh yes, and then what? Violate the freedom of press? What would that accomplish? Nothing, that's what.
