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Re:Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system by mil22 on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:04PM (#39400662)
Some, but not all [1]: "... the remaining 17% reported using only nicotine-containing vaping products... It is believed that the non-THC/CBD vapers who were diagnosed with EVALI were actually suffering from disparate vaping-associated lung diseases caused by different toxins within the aerosols or different host responses to the inhalants."

Note that many of the toxic chemicals referred to in this paper are normal components of nicotine vape juice, including but not limited to the flavorings, so the comparison to spiking Tylenol with cyanide is not particularly apt.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10228557/

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Re:Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system by inejge on Friday February 16, 2024 @02:05PM (#39401525)
The comparison to Tylenol spiking is perfectly apt if you consider the whole category of toxic adulterants as the noxious agent. (I know that THC/vit-E wasn't the totality of cases. You can only go so far without drowning in pedantry.) Moreover, it seems to have been a very North American phenomenon. Europe is quite vape-mad and you can count the number of vape-related lung injuries on one hand.
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