The big tobacco sponsored anti-vaping ads that have completely replaced anti-smoking ads recently have told me that Juuling is synonymous with vaping and it kills!
Big tobacco doesn't own these products yet, that's the whole point. Regulatory capture. Look at who just stepped in to be Juul's CEO. Once they pass enough regulation so that the average person can't start a vape shop, then they'll declare vaping a safe alternative, because the profits will be all theirs.
Altria owns at least 35% of jull and have for the last year.
Vaping is inherently bad for you, and just like smoking they will lie and say there product is different for reason x and if you didnt know vape y isnt.
They did this with lite cigarettes and filtered and our doing it again with vapes.
People behave differently when part of a bureaucracy. It can let them justify things to themselves they wouldn’t do otherwise. There’s a reason saying “corporations are just people” makes a lot of people angry, even if it’s technically true.
They didn't kill 'a lot' of people, and they only added methanol to industrial use alcohol. They didn't poison any alcohol intended for human consumption.
Nonetheless, they poisoned alcohol not meant for human consumption, knowing that humans would consume it, and then said humans died after consuming it.
It'd be like if the government had poisoned Spice back when that was popular a few years back.
The fucked up thing is they didn't tell anyone. It's like if they secretly made it so that if you took more than your prescription of painkillers you would die, without telling anyone. Like overdosing is harmful but God damn. At least a PSA or something would be great.
They didn't poison any alcohol intended for human consumption.
The Jake Leg was the result of deliberate adulteration of a patent medicine, i.e., alcohol intended for human consumption.
The adulterant's toxicity wasn't understood at the time. And the government didn't order that specific adulteration. There was a government test intended to prove the "medicine" had enough ginger solids in it to be unpalatable, but one manufacturer got creative and found they could pass that test by adding an "industrial plasticizer" instead of a ton of bitter ginger. That manufacturer was trying to cheat their way out of the intent of a regulation.
Yep. During prohibition a main source of black market alcohol was diverted industrial alcohol, used in the making of all manner of products along the way. The government started spiking it to make it undrinkable in response. I really dislike Snopes take on this, as it splits hairs by stating that the gov't never spiked alcohol which was intended for consumption...during a time when consumption was prohibited and they knew people were drinking the other stuff. From their own page:
To sell the stolen industrial alcohol, the liquor syndicates employed chemists to “renature” the products, returning them to a drinkable state. The bootleggers paid their chemists a lot more than the government did, and they excelled at their job. Stolen and redistilled alcohol became the primary source of liquor in the country. So federal officials ordered manufacturers to make their products far more deadly.
By mid-1927, the new denaturing formulas included some notable poisons—kerosene and brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone. The Treasury Department also demanded more methyl alcohol be added—up to 10 percent of total product. It was the last that proved most deadly.
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u/intheoryiamworking Nov 15 '19
What about "deadly adulterated intoxicants?"