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Society, if those products are found unsafe earlier rather than later.
by notimetorelax 7y ago
Society, if those products are found unsafe earlier rather than later.
- Mtinie 7y agoI agree, but my questions have to do with the economics of the panic, warranted or not. To build on your comment: Vaping is not a new concept[0] and if the act of vaping itself— rather than a problem with the supply chain (product purity, dosages, etc.)—was the problem why has it taken 13 years in the U.S. to surface? I can imagine the contemporary spike in numbers of users and frequency has effect on the number of cases. For all we know this condition with the same set of symptoms has been seen before but connections never drawn to a wider-spread problem. This may be the “earlier discovery” you reference, compared to the decades it took for Society to recognize how dangerous cigarettes are. [0] http://www.casaa.org/historical-timeline-of-electronic-cigarettes/ http://www.casaa.org/historical-timeline-of-electronic-cigar... (note: industry source)
- penagwin 7y agoThis depends - see the alchohol prohibition, if there's a large enough market and the product is easy enough to make then banning the product just creates an unregulated black market. Which can create more problems if there's tainted products being sold, legal users will have to avoid otherwise legitimate shops that have at least _some_ degree of liability vs some random friend of a friend who has "good stuff" - who has no incentive at all to care about health or safety.