Vaping is new.
Maybe these are the early incidents of a yet-to-be-discovered chronic condition that takes a decade plus of vaping to develop.
Hey, millions of high schoolers smoke cigarettes and none of them have lung cancer! (yet)
Juul Lab's and all the vaping shops need to be put out of business for claiming this is a harmless way of smoking. Kids took that and ran with it as they vaporize God knows what to get high in a stealthy and supposedly, more healthy way.
According to the article, 5 people have died due to this vaping related illness. By contrast, cigarette smoking kills 480,000 people a year in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
AFAIK, the data is consistent with vaping being more dangerous than smoking.
For what it’s worth, humans evolved in the presence of fire. Plant smoke, while quite dangerous, is something that mammal lungs have dealt with, in moderation, forever. Whatever chemical soup is present in vaping vapor is new. And saying “it’s just glycerol” makes no sense. Glycerol has very small vapor pressure at body temperature and boils well above the boiling point of water. Some websites suggest that the actual output from vaping is quite nasty indeed.
Oh no, not commas! What other punctuation related illnesses hover over our head, waiting to descend when the clouds of vape smoke clear?
Or, even worse, colon cancer. (A terrible affliction that can leave one with a semi-colon.)
(I'll get downvoted... like you... we will go down together.)
But in the second paragraph, you say that Juul -- a legal company that produces NICOTINE cartridges, not THC -- should be shut down.
How does A lead to B here?