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spanone

(135,795 posts)
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 06:45 PM Sep 2019

So vaping is more dangerous than an AR-15? Got it.

⇧ ⇧ ⇧ From the New York Times Comments Section ⇧ ⇧ ⇧

Trump Administration Plans to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes

WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials said on Wednesday that they would ban the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes, at a time when hundreds of people have been sickened by mysterious lung illnesses and teenage vaping continues to rise.

Sitting in the Oval Office with Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Dr. Ned Sharpless, the acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner, President Trump acknowledged that there was a vaping problem, and said, “We’re going to have to do something about it.”

Mr. Azar said that the F.D.A. would outline a plan within the coming weeks for removing most flavored e-cigarettes from the market.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/health/trump-vaping.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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So vaping is more dangerous than an AR-15? Got it. (Original Post) spanone Sep 2019 OP
Do fucking something about guns!!! Initech Sep 2019 #1
Not sure about that hack89 Sep 2019 #4
Only 6 deaths from guns would be considered a good day. Vinca Sep 2019 #2
Mental illness, not vaping, is the real problem. Crunchy Frog Sep 2019 #3
if people want to vape they are going to find a way Takket Sep 2019 #5
Stunning indeed malaise Sep 2019 #6
You can kill other people, just don't hurt yourself Clash City Rocker Sep 2019 #7
K&R ck4829 Sep 2019 #8

Initech

(100,043 posts)
1. Do fucking something about guns!!!
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 07:46 PM
Sep 2019

You have far greater odds of dying from a gun shot wound than you do from just about anything else.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
4. Not sure about that
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 08:27 PM
Sep 2019

There are many things that kill more people by an order of magnitude than guns. Don't forget that nearly 3 million people die every year in America.

Takket

(21,529 posts)
5. if people want to vape they are going to find a way
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 08:31 PM
Sep 2019

they will just get it on the streets so banning it really solves nothing

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Clash City Rocker

(3,390 posts)
7. You can kill other people, just don't hurt yourself
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 08:55 PM
Sep 2019

That never made sense to me. We make drugs illegal to keep you from hurting yourself, but weapons that allow you to hurt others? Those are okay, for some reason.

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