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This problem isn't down to vaping, it's black-market THC products that were the problem. The ingredients in vape products are very safe (similar formation to th
by velox_io 7y ago
This problem isn't down to vaping, it's black-market THC products that were the problem. The ingredients in vape products are very safe (similar formation to the ingredients in asthma inhalers, and many other places).
Yes, a dozen or so people have died from this, but this is a fraction of the 500,000 people die per year from smoking-related deaths in the United States alone.
You have to seriously question the motives behind the "Vaping Deaths!" headlines. Most things in excess are harmful; food, even water! It's all a question of context, and how safe something is compared to the alternatives. Instead of encouraging people to move from smoking to vaping, quite the opposite is happening, like trying to ban flavoured vaping products for instance. There's underage drinkers, but banning any type of flavoured alcohol product would sound ridiculous.
I vape CBD as it is the most effective way to consume it to reduce muscle spasms. I have never smoked, I hate smoking, and that's before my dad died from lung cancer. So I have been following the story very closely, it's actually quite scary how low public health factors in the scheme of things. Big tobacco is still very big (and powerful).
- dkraft 7y agoI still struggle to comprehend why the vape cloud is expelled. If it contains the valuable component then why do vapers expell 99.9% of it?
- goldcd 7y agoI'd like to think of it as 'big tobacco' - but most of them own vape brands, so would have thought they'd be most happy to carry on selling nicotine products, without being beaten up with them killing people. Now - I don't think big tobacco is 'clean' here. EU's "Tobacco Products Directive" was pretty much written to hand the market to large suppliers selling small refills. My guess is that it's just the latest 'think of the children' scare. Juul and teenagers seem to be the main cause/victim here. Seems to gloss over the 'fewer teens are smoking' benefit here. We had novels, rock music, gansta rap, video-nasties, murder-simulator games... and now we have vaping. Eventually we'll get over it.
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- CydeWeys 7y ago"The ingredients in vape products are very safe" I think you're significantly overstating this point. The most reasonable statement that can probably be made is "They're not that bad for you".