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

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.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

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.


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.

Blunts are trashy and gross. Use normal rolling paper if you must smoke. Pipes are better. Bongs are even better.

Vaping flower is best.

Specifically in regards to oils. The THC vapes (and some of the tobacco ones I think )use a shitload of vitamin E to extract the active components, and E is fat soluble; which is something your lungs are particularly not made to deal with. It can’t readily pass through into your bloodstream. I’m actually very curious why we’re seeing this effect so quickly. Tar from burning cigs seems to take years longer to produce a similar thing.