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Re:Juul Labs CEO to Step Down by moftz on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:07PM (#21072070)
There needs to be some more information out there as to what specifically is causing this illness. Everyone is quick to lump all vapes together when there are a ton of rumors that the ones making people sick/dead are blackmarket/bootleg THC cartridges from China. For all of these illnesses and deaths to come on so quickly, it seems more like a tainted product than the typical PG/VG/flavoring mixture causing this. We already know smoking kills. It kills way more people every day than have ever died from vaping. If we aren't going to ban cigarettes too, then we need to regulate them both equally. I don't think vape ads on TV are appropriate and Juul employees visiting schools is definitely not good, regardless of whether or not the kids are 18+. They can be used as smoking cessation but they can also just be used as an alternative as compared to patches and gum which are really only good for cessation.
Re:Juul Labs CEO to Step Down by juped on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:08PM (#21073445)
"Rumors" from e.g. the Minnesota department of public health
Re:Juul Labs CEO to Step Down by moftz on Thursday September 26, 2019 @08:02AM (#21080122)
I hadn't seen anything official, only people saying it in comments so I didn't want to imply it was a fact.