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Re:Juul Labs CEO to Step Down by 34679 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:27AM (#21071677)
If it's not killing people, how is it a health crisis? Would it be a public health crisis if we had a meteoric rise in teens swimming, given that the risk of death or illness from swimming is far higher than it is from vaping?
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Re:Juul Labs CEO to Step Down by ceejayoz on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:29AM (#21071701)
> If it's not killing people, how is it a health crisis?

I'm not sure we can safely say we know the long-term impact of vaping nicotine yet.

There are also indications that the uptick in vaping has stalled the decline in cigarette smoking.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/Youth-smoking-decline-stalls-...

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Re:Juul Labs CEO to Step Down by decebalus1 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:05PM (#21073412)
> I'm not sure we can safely say we know the long-term impact of vaping nicotine yet.

So we can't say if it's a health crisis.. yet. Right? We also don't know of the long-term impact of melatonin but we're not considering people consuming it when they have insomnia to be a health crisis, right?

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Re:Juul Labs CEO to Step Down by ceejayoz on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @03:20PM (#21074295)
We've got evidence it's negatively affecting the known health crisis of cigarette smoking.

I'm inclined to treat non-addictive melatonin and extremely-addictive nicotine differently in how we approach potential health risks.

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Re:Juul Labs CEO to Step Down by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:52AM (#21071943)
The key word here is addiction.
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