For background I found out about vaping about 8 years ago and got into selling them to the people I sold weed to as a new alternative to cigarettes. I got so far as to making the juice and mixing it up in my kitchen diluting lethal concentrations of liquid nicotine. Seriously, it will absorb through your skin and kill you.
About a year later it caught on wildly and vape shops were popping up everywhere, I was seriously considering opening up a shop when I seen them opening everywhere I lost interest because my interest in it was offering something unique, and shops were now everywhere, so I turned it aside.
Now, from the very start of the vaping scene the argument against it was their are no real clinical trials or studies to determine long term effects. This was immediately combated by the fact that you are literally inhaling water vapor and it couldn't possibly be as harmful to your lungs as the carcinogen filled smoke of cigarettes.
Although I myself decided to stop using and promoting ecigs, I've kept my eye on the scene and taken notice to the advancements of where they are going with this. For 8 years ive kept my ears to the ground because it was a passion of mine at one point, I thought I was going to help change the world, and suddenly it's everywhere.
The whole point i'm rambling on to get to is, I've been watching this evolution for almost a decade, and for almost a decade nobody was dropping dead from vaping until a month ago. Man, have you seen the instagram videos of people engulfing themselves in literal clouds of smoke? For 8 straight years! And now they're suddenly dropping dead? All in a month span? There's something fishy going on here and everyone is just playing right along like sheep.
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[–] anonra 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I agree there is a big push about the dangers of E-cigs in the MSM. I've been keeping an eye on all the news, and there is a lot of misinformation. I've wondered if it is because Phillip Morris is coming out with a new type of 'Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco Device' and they are manipulating the media so they can take full advantage when they release it.
As for the deaths, It's not to the vape sold in shops but back ally stuff. And so far its not tobacco related but marijuana vapes that are to blame. From the testing I've read about, it is the Vitamin E (which makes the THC vapes have more vapor) and vapes tainted with hydrogen cyanide. I think the whole FDA thing has to do with the flavor marketing for E-cigs that make it attractive to minors, and I saw the testimony of the FDA the other day and they said they don't want to ban the flavors, just regulate the marketing aspect of it.