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Re:Juul Tried to Position Itself as a Responsible Actor. It ... by neaden on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:42PM (#21052093)
"Compared with cigarettes its damn near harmless." Maybe. Maybe it is. Maybe it is not. We don't know what the long term effects will be, and conducting a real time trial on 20% of the nations high-schoolers isn't the optimal way to find out.
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Re:Juul Tried to Position Itself as a Responsible Actor. It ... by elcomet on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:47PM (#21052146)
Well it is much more harmless than tobacco. Which is not a reason to encourage its usage for kids of course.
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Re:Juul Tried to Position Itself as a Responsible Actor. It ... by cblades on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:55PM (#21052251)
Says who? What long-term studies have there been on the effects of vaping?
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Re:Juul Tried to Position Itself as a Responsible Actor. It ... by superfluousText on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:16PM (#21052493)
Odd how no one says that about produce that has had bacteria genes spliced in to it and is now fed to hundreds of millions of people. We won't even label it.
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Re:Juul Tried to Position Itself as a Responsible Actor. It ... by neaden on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:29PM (#21052628)
We actually study it quite a bit. But nice job trying to distract the conversation onto a completely separate issue.
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Re:Juul Tried to Position Itself as a Responsible Actor. It ... by standardUser on Monday September 23, 2019 @05:28PM (#21053910)
It was an apt comparison, and obviously we have not studied it over a 30 or 40 year period. Same as with vaping.
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