I 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

I 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)