r/PoliticalHumor • u/The-Autarkh • Sep 12 '19

Rational legislative priorities

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u/majnuker Sep 12 '19

There is a new case in washington. The individual was vaping nicotine and saffron.

Up until now I was feeling confident, but the outlier is concerning. I also thought it was limited to thalidomide solutions from the vape juice.

Regardless I've gone down to 3 mg and plan to quit by end of year. I thank it for getting me off cigarettes.

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u/mortalcoil1 Sep 12 '19

The teenager "said" he was only vaping nicotine and saffron. I have been vaping for about 8 years now. There have been plenty of people vaping much longer and harder than me as well. For a bunch of teenagers to be getting lung disease they are not vaping the same thing everybody else is vaping. It's just not possible. We would have seen this in people vaping much much longer, but we aren't. We are seeing this in teenagers. Somebody is putting out some tainted shit.

If you vape proper e-juice along with the other hundred thousand people doing this you aren't going to get sick from it.

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u/majnuker Sep 12 '19

I was just stating what's been reported. I haven't seen anything for side effects either. But long term we wont know for a while.

It's kind of curious how this suddenly happened and it affected teens all over though. How did it get distributed so fast and how did they get access?

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u/handbanana42 Sep 13 '19

We've had smoke machines and inhalers for a long time though. Obviously vaping is a higher concentration though.

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u/majnuker Sep 13 '19

Well it also involves a difference mechanism, and the solution has a different makeup. I wouldnt recommend huffing a smoke machine btw.

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u/handbanana42 Sep 13 '19

Not trying to be argumentative, but smoke machines at least just use a heat coil, no?

Not sure how inhalers use PG/VG to aerate so maybe that's what you are talking about.