US CDC Backs Off Recommendation That Everyone Consider Giving Up Vaping - Ain't no TLC for that THC.

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CDC backs off recommendation that everyone consider giving up vaping

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have backed away from its broad recommendation that anyone who uses e-cigarettes of any kind should consider quitting amid an outbreak of vaping-related illnesses and deaths. Instead, it is only recommending avoiding vaping products containing THC, the…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have backed away from its broad recommendation that anyone who uses e-cigarettes of any kind should consider quitting amid an outbreak of vaping-related illnesses and deaths. Instead, it is only recommending avoiding vaping products containing THC, the high-inducing chemical in marijuana, a narrower warning.

A warning that "the best way for people to ensure that they are not at risk while the investigation continues is to consider refraining from the use of all e-cigarette, or vaping, products" was gone from the CDC website as of Friday. The CDC still warns that young people and pregnant women should not vape and that nonsmokers should not start vaping.

Last fall the agency warned people to "particularly" avoid e-cigarettes with THC and zeroed in on a substance used as an additive in THC vapes as a culprit for the outbreak of vaping-related illnesses.

Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, suggested Thursday that the CDC should clarify that its warnings apply to vaping THC.

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Since the first outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries occurred in spring 2019, 2,668 people have been hospitalized and 60 have died. Until Friday, the CDC had recommended that people refrain from using all vaping products, including nicotine e-cigarettes.
 
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In ten months we'll read about CDC officials getting 7-figure do-nothing jobs at cigarette companies.
 
Franjevina said:
Vaping is for faggots .

Smoke like a real man .
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Funny thing is a guy I know who smokes Camel straights correctly predicted that vaping was worse for you (in a way he was right).

??? said:
In ten months we'll read about CDC officials getting 7-figure do-nothing jobs at cigarette companies.
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In a way, the tobacco vs. vape thing kind of explains why alternative fuels aren't really a thing. The existing companies no doubt buy out or threaten their competition.

Reminds me of Idiocracy where they flat out bought the FDA to sell Brawndo and cigarettes.

 
I vaped once. Took days to get the taste out of my mouth. The flavor of the vape was fine, it was the legion of dicks I felt compelled to suck immediately after I exhaled.
 
Just fucking smoke a blunt like a real man.

Better yet, take edibles. They get you higher, and you're not inhaling shit into your fucking lungs like a retard.
 
But I don't get it. Firstly why exactly is vaping bad now? Secondly. If smoking tobacco was deadly, wouldn't the tobacco companies have invested money to breeding a tobacco plant without cyanide in it like I'm told all cigarettes have?
 
#zzz said:
But I don't get it. Firstly why exactly is vaping bad now? Secondly. If smoking tobacco was deadly, wouldn't the tobacco companies have invested money to breeding a tobacco plant without cyanide in it like I'm told all cigarettes have?
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Smoking anything is bad. Vaping is exotic and scary instead of normal like Ciggys.
 
#zzz said:
Firstly why exactly is vaping bad now?
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Vaping involves dissolving nicotene (or cannabinoids or whatever) into some kind of flavored gel or oil. There's a big question mark about what's in the gels or oils. Most of them are fine, but there's some nowadays that are causing people serious lung problems.

It's probably a technology problem.
Slap47 said:
Smoking anything is bad. Vaping is exotic and scary instead of normal like Ciggys.
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#zzz said:
Then why isn't that ever brought up during the legalized marijuana push?
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Sorta.

Like in general, smoking is bad, but smoking tobacco is specifically bad because there are carcinogenic compounds specifically in tobacco. At best, smoking things other than tobacco will still cause lung irritation. At worst, we might discover other carcinogenic compounds. With weed, think that's unlikely, because it's not like people haven't been smoking weed for a long time anyway, and there hasn't been nearly the cancer issue that there was with tobacco. But admittedly, we don't have the same data about weed smoking.
deodorant said:
Just fucking smoke a blunt like a real man.
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Blunts are trashy and gross. Use normal rolling paper if you must smoke. Pipes are better. Bongs are even better.

Vaping flower is best.
 
Marvin said:
Vaping involves dissolving nicotene (or cannabinoids or whatever) into some kind of flavored gel or oil. There's a big question mark about what's in the gels or oils.
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Someone with an actual medical degree could weigh in on this, but I'd guess it's less the ingredients and more that oil doesn't belong in the lungs.

Try to scrape up some dried olive oil from the kitchen counter, it's sticky and will take some elbow grease to get rid of. Now picture that coating your airways.
 
Coffee Shits said:
Someone with an actual medical degree could weigh in on this, but I'd guess it's less the ingredients and more that oil doesn't belong in the lungs.

Try to scrape up some dried olive oil from the kitchen counter, it's sticky and will take some elbow grease to get rid of. Now picture that coating your airways.
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No, like essential oils. They evaporate.
 
Your Weird Fetish said:
CDC is saying it's probably an additive specific to certain oils used in the THC stuff. Isolate and remove those and we're good, besides whatever native health problems irritation of the lungs will inherently cause.
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From what I've seen the problem with the THC vaping deaths was the additive vitamin E acetate being put in specifically black market THC cartridges. Genuine THC oil is extremely viscous and even a layman can tell if it's been diluted by checking how long a bubble takes to travel through the surface. Savvy drug dealers added the vitamin E acetate as a thickening agent so their customers can't tell, and everything appears fine until the deaths start happening. All this was an indirect consequence of states' marijuana prohibition in the first place, which makes it all the more ridiculous when the buck stopped at perfectly legal nicotine e-cigs all because Barron probably got caught in the school bathroom with a Juul.

What I'm more worried about is the recorded popcorn lung that's been popping up with long-term vape usage, and the future nicotine outlet for the 18-20 year olds who have been sucking on the equivalent of 10 cigs at once on the daily for years and are now being turned away from buying their aerosol cocaine at gas stations.
 
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