Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. For the life of me...

For the life of me...

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
10 Posts 6 Posters 91 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • MikM Offline
    MikM Offline
    Mik
    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    I cannot imagine why the FDA allowed vaping to become so widespread.

    https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/education/2023/09/26/enquirer-investigation-uncovers-widespread-teen-vaping-addiction/70158138007/?utm_source=enquirer-dailybriefing-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailybriefing-headline-stack&utm_term=newsletter-greeting&utm_content=pcin-cincinnati-nletter65

    "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

    1 Reply Last reply
    • taiwan_girlT Offline
      taiwan_girlT Offline
      taiwan_girl
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      Wow. That story may be an extreme case, but still frightening.

      @Mik What do you think the FDA can/should do? I know there is talking in the US about banning the various flavors of vaping.

      1 Reply Last reply
      • MikM Offline
        MikM Offline
        Mik
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        Product should never have been approved.

        "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

        AxtremusA 1 Reply Last reply
        • MikM Mik

          Product should never have been approved.

          AxtremusA Offline
          AxtremusA Offline
          Axtremus
          wrote on last edited by
          #4

          @Mik said in For the life of me...:

          Product should never have been approved.

          On what grounds?

          jon-nycJ 1 Reply Last reply
          • AxtremusA Axtremus

            @Mik said in For the life of me...:

            Product should never have been approved.

            On what grounds?

            jon-nycJ Online
            jon-nycJ Online
            jon-nyc
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            @Axtremus said in For the life of me...:

            @Mik said in For the life of me...:

            Product should never have been approved.

            On what grounds?

            Ah, not healthy?

            Thank you for your attention to this matter.

            1 Reply Last reply
            • kluursK Offline
              kluursK Offline
              kluurs
              wrote on last edited by
              #6

              It is idiocy. There's a site with the history of their introduction. It seems that the FDA claimed jurisdiction of the devices. Companies fought against that jurisdiction - and lost. Still...relentless pressure resulted in their introduction - a government by bought buy the corporations, for the corporations...

              I had a friend from college who smoked all his life. I visited his home a few years back, and he proudly told everyone how he'd quit smoking. Later, I learned he'd taken up vaping. Kind of like moving from crack cocaine to heroin and feeling like progress is being made.

              1 Reply Last reply
              • MikM Offline
                MikM Offline
                Mik
                wrote on last edited by
                #7

                At least with tobacco you have some idea what's in it. With vaping it could be anything. Especially if it comes from overseas.

                "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

                1 Reply Last reply
                • Doctor PhibesD Online
                  Doctor PhibesD Online
                  Doctor Phibes
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #8

                  I work with a couple of people who'd never smoked in their lives, but started vaping as middle aged men. I couldn't figure out why. Maybe they thought it made them look cool. One of them was doing it in his office, the whole bloody corridor smelled terrible until he got told to pack it in.

                  I was only joking

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • jon-nycJ Online
                    jon-nycJ Online
                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #9

                    Vape pens made to look like highlighters.

                    https://wnyt.com/top-stories/take-a-closer-look-at-your-childs-school-supplies-it-could-actually-be-a-vape/?fbclid=IwAR3vXk2RzwW_QLmnKA324Uk7YQX3huplILvE10NjFq7XYvTUfEXVFxB9Sjo

                    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    • taiwan_girlT Offline
                      taiwan_girlT Offline
                      taiwan_girl
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #10

                      And

                      vape backpacks, smart watches, t-shirts, and hoodies.

                      A friend was telling me that some have the vaping device in the "string" of a hoodie. Kids will take a vape, and then pull their collar out and exhale into the "hoodie" so that there is very little evidence that they are doing it.

                      Not only from a health standpoint, but from an economic standpoint for kids, it is a bad idea.

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      Reply
                      • Reply as topic
                      Log in to reply
                      • Oldest to Newest
                      • Newest to Oldest
                      • Most Votes


                      • Login

                      • Don't have an account? Register

                      • Login or register to search.
                      • First post
                        Last post
                      0
                      • Categories
                      • Recent
                      • Tags
                      • Popular
                      • Users
                      • Groups