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On 5/3/24 1:56 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
On 5/2/24 21:06, 68hx.1807 wrote:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13374287/Vaping-reforms-
Australian-National-University-Professor-Emily-Banks-makes-shock-
admission-parliamentary-inquiry.html
An anti-vaping professor has been grilled during a senate
inquiry to provide examples of e-cigarette deaths before
she eventually admitted the only known deaths is when vape
batteries exploded.
Professor Emily Banks was questioned at the senate inquiry
for the Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment
(Vaping Reforms) Bill on Wednesday.
The head of the Centre for Public Health Data and Policy
at Australian National University in Canberra is a leading
advocate for stricter regulations on vapes due to health
concerns regarding the popular devices.
Federal Nationals Senator for Queensland Matt Canavan told
the inquiry that he is still not sure 'after all these years'
if anyone had died using a vape in places like the United
Kingdom or New Zealand.
'Or even just a severe medical episode. Because I'm trying
to reach what the threshold is here before we ban something,'
he said.
. . .
Puritan crusaders.
Odd how they don't give a shit if people smoke
massive quantities of marijuana - because that'll
make you STUPID enough to believe lefties :-)
Since nicotine is a slow killer acting negatively
on the cardiopulumonary and nervous system. deaths by
nicotine vaporizing are in the future if they happen at all.
Mostly there will be a lot more 'environmental'/lifestyle
challenges - I'm old now, I know - actual nicotine damage
will be a minor part of the equation in almost all cases.
Meantime youthful addictions to nicotine are very difficult
to break. My late roomie started when she was 14 YOA and
died of brain cancer at 75. She had stopped smoking when she
was in her late 50s or early 60s. But nicotine addiction
in the young has distressing symptoms of nervous agitation.
and hostility when deprived of the addictive substance.
Hard to draw population-scale stats from ONE case, and
do note that lots of people who never smoked anything
get brain cancers. It's more a genetic lottery. SOMETHING
is gonna get you ... and for x-percent it's going to be
some kind of cancer.
DO note recent crowing by the Brits about their "personalized"
m-RNA melanoma treatment (which could become quite cheap if
done on a larger scale). There's a similar glioma approach
with ultra-impressive results in some cases. M-RNA research
has been HEAVILY funded since Covid - and it's now looking
to be a magic bullet against a lot of cancers, maybe all.
Years ago smoking cannabis was cleared of all charges
but bronchitis which while inconvenient does not kill one most
of the time. Some individuals are allergic to the substances
in cannabis smoke or edible versions. Some young people who may
be unstable have negative reactions so until you are mature
enough to know who you are you might lay off the weed.
Look ... NOBODY is gonna "wait until they are mature" to
get buzzed - they'll go straight at it before they've
got grass on the lawn. This is the fact.
Marijuana, even pure THCs, are not "harmless". Weed has
as many nasty things, maybe more, than tobacco. THC
makes a lot of people just stupid or worse (had to quit
it in my late teens because of the 'just stupid' aspect).
In short NOTHING is "harmless" - except maybe the water
at military bases eh ? What "harms" is, again, rather
individual. Some can kinda bathe in dioxin and such and
live to 100 - others can barely smell glyphosphate and
get horribly sick. Once again, 'genetic lottery' (and
perhaps some co-factors).
Sorry, but the Rest Of Us are NOT gonna give up all
the niceties and perks of modern life just because
*somebody* gets sick from it. Oh, and look into the
lifespan of medieval peasants before you embrace the
"modern-free" model .....
As for weed making you suseptible to propaganda you
might look at legal alcohol use which may make you believe the
QAnon line of lies. Maybe it destroys those critical brain
cells?
Nicotine makes you a bit sharper. Alcohol generally
makes people more skeptical, more willing to laugh
at 'authorities'. Too much weed just seems to make
people dull and gullible. Been there, seen it all
since the 60s. You don't wanna know how old I was
when someone gifted me a tab of acid (happy to get
it, but lucky I split it !)
Hey, it was the Age Of Aquarius ... :-)
As for QAnon ... there IS a percentage who are just
generally gullible for Vast Konspiracy Theories. Dunno
why - but it's so common through history that it's bound
to be genetic, a "human thing". Religious/political/
philosophical/economic/satanic/UFO True Believers fully
populate our past and present and, alas, often steer
events.
Leftist fantasies aside do you think that the working
people of the USA are fairly treated? That is the whole motivater
behind the so-called left. Right wing fantasies are exemplified
by the billionaires who use the GOP to try to destroy the nation.
bliss-retired old 85.6 yoa nurse
Not QUITE as old - but old enough to have Seen It :-)
And yea, the left/right/xian/islam/etc stuff is HYPED
by a relative handful of power-seekers. It's a game.
They exploit the abovementioned gullibility thing.
Again, nothing NEW.
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