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First vaper reported dead after mysterious lung disease
- RappingBoomer 7y agofake science media propaganda campaign on behalf of global capitalism
- noneeeed 7y agoI find the difference in vape use in the US and UK really interesting. We (the UK) have much lower rates of teen vaping, and the NHS is actively pushing vaping as a pillar of its stop-smoking programmes. Vaping just doesn't seem to have much of a cool image, it's just that thing that your ex-smoker friends do instead of smoking. Meanwhile in the us there seems to be a full blown moral panic going on, higher use by teens, and it seems to have some kind of "cool" factor. I'm curious whats going on with these lung problems, and why it seema to have suddenly become an issue.
- dogma1138 7y agoI don’t know where you live in the U.K. but if I come out of work early I see groups of school uniformed children with vape pens all the time in central London.
- samdunham 7y agoThe reporting on this has been super shoddy. I've read countless articles that fail to mention the "I bought some sketchy stuff on the street and put it in my vape pen" aspect of it or don't mention it until the last sentence. There is a clear anti-vape movement in the US. I suspect it stems from busy bodies that are frustrated that their anti-smoking campaign, while mostly successful, has been countermanded by the vaping movement. But it's just a hunch.