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[Bitmap Frogs]

I was browsing theverge and just saw this:

Vaping lung death toll hits 26 as CDC investigation continues

Nearly 1,300 lung injury cases reported

www.theverge.com

This is things keeps getting larger and larger every day and we still don't have an explanation for it. It is insane. 26 dead already!

Do you think the sale of vaping consumables should be banned until we have found the cause of this?

 

[Clear]

Nah, what needs to be asked is why this is happening only in America.

 

[Prison Mike]

They found the reason alcohol and tabacoo kills you did they ban those fact is aslong as the top brass are getting rich these things will never be banned

 

[infinitys_7th]

Wow, people are harmed by purposefully inhaling particulized additives and chemicals. Clearly laws are needed or something, rather than just saying they did what they wanted and got the natural consequence.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Nah, what needs to be asked is why this is happening only in America.

Some substance in food/drink/whatever that is banned/not (yet) approved in EU reacts with something in the vaping liquid?

 

[RedVIper]

Wow, people are harmed by purposefully inhaling particulized additives and chemicals. Clearly laws are needed or something, rather than just saying they did what they wanted and got the natural consequence.

The only law that's needed is so that kids can't do it. As long as everyone else is aware of the risks it's their own business.

 

[Tesseract]

virgin lungs have no business toking this gnarly shit

stick to the plant, mudda fuckas

 

[Contica]

It's so easy to veen off nicotine by thinning out the % in vaping juice that I don't understand why everybody doesn't do it.

It's a fantastic tool for quitting. But I have no doubts that doing it with no thoughts of ever quitting will in some way be harmful. After all, you are inhaling enormous amounts of vapour and many people just go non stop through the day.

 

[Nymphae]

Still not convinced this has anything to do with nicotine vaping at all.

 

[Ornlu]

Why on earth did I read that as death toll at 26,130 cases?!?

 

[Tesseract]

Why on earth did I read that as death toll at 26,130 cases?!?

because you smoke too much of the weedlings

 

[Thaedolus]

Wow, people are harmed by purposefully inhaling particulized additives and chemicals. Clearly laws are needed or something, rather than just saying they did what they wanted and got the natural consequence.

Vaping has always been presented as a less harmful vice than smoking, and we shouldn't be surprised when kids do things deemed cool or trendy which also combine getting buzzed and being addictive. I'm not saying we should forget about personal responsibility, but tobacco companies marketed to kids for years and suppressed how harmful their product was for decades, and vaping messaging has been almost worse considering it's been treated like it's perfectly safe.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Human inhales fumes with chemicals in it all day.

Human gets sick.

Who knew.

 

[kingwingin]

How many people vape? 26 seems low. Dont more people die getting hit by coconuts?