• XpeeN@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Yep. the whole vaping industry got ruined because of this, and it wasn’t even related to said industry. I guess it’s just another example of what lobbying is capble of.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve never used a nicotine vape product in my life.

      I tried cigarettes once as a teenager and didn’t like them; tried a cigar once and threw it away.

      I don’t like nicotine. I like beer and weed.

      But the whole scare about nicotine vaping is utterly bogus.

      Almost all of the harm of smoking is from the smoke — soot, tar, and carbon monoxide — and not the nicotine. Inhaling smoke is bad for you. It doesn’t matter if that smoke is from tobacco, or cannabis, or a forest fire. Inhaling smoke is bad for you.

      If all the cigarette smokers could be switched to vaping overnight, keeping their nicotine doses the same but using vape juice rather than burning plants to get it, that would be a huge public health win.

      The fact that regulatory agencies have gotten in the way of converting all the smokers to vaping, instead of gleefully endorsing such a change, is utter madness.