For the life of me...
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I cannot imagine why the FDA allowed vaping to become so widespread.
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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.
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@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?
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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
bybought 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.
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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.
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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.
