(March 16, 2018 at 11:54 am)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: Yay. I can just see the poor bastards like me who smoke a pack a day smoking three or four times as much in order to get their fix. It's a stop-gap solution at best and no solution at all at worst. It's not the nicotine that kills, but the carcinogenic compounds carried with it. They would serve the public far better by promoting vaping as a replacement for traditional tobacco products instead of treating vaping as 'just ad bad' as smoking despite at least one study evidencing a harm level 95% lower than traditional tobacco.
Even when our government gets it right, they can't help but fuck up.
Um no, even with vaping, the FDA really has not been able to collect enough data as to the exact chemicals used in the flavors. I wouldn't claim every product maker uses dangerous stuff, but I also wouldn't put it past the human trait of greed.
I think Australia gets it right. They do not put any adds in the stores, the product brands have no logos on the boxes, but they are given serial numbers like a license plate. The products are kept in nondescript drawers with only the serial number as the label on the drawer. And they use the taxes on the sales to take car of those who end up with health problems as a result. It also helps make it less likely younger people will pick it up as a habit.
I'd bet if that existed when I was a kid, I wouldn't have started as a result of peer pressure, or at least, been less likely to have started.
Vaping is relatively young as a product right now. The vapor itself may not be harmful, but what chemicals are the makers using? Are the companies required to disclose all the ingredients on the packaging? In business law, just like with food recipes, they don't always have to disclose everything because they don't want their competitors getting their formulas.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/vaping/
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/how-safe-is-vaping
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/be...ncna819716
The shops and industry of course will say they are safe, yea, of course because you don't want to hurt your profit margin.
At this point the jury is out on vaping, there is no 100% agreement right now. I'd say most of it depends exactly on the chemical formulas of each individual product.
