Bernie Sanders Suggests Banning Vaping- Massive Damage Control and Media Blackout

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[–]Spud 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Source?

[–]Spud 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ok, I have one:

https://t.co/7J39eE42dW?amp=1

What he said was this, basically:

Vermont senator said, “The answer is, I think we shut down the industry if they’re causing addiction and if the evidence is that people are getting sick as a result or inhaling a lot of bad stuff.”

That's actually quite fair. He's got the answer qualified, if evidence people are getting sick from vaping itself, and or bad stuff in the vaping.

Fundamentally, the NHS and other health orgs are not anti-vaping for harm reduction reasons. The US is going bat shit for a lot of reasons, but a big one came out of THC vaping where the materials used to cut the product to increase margins are causing a lot of sickness.

There is some general ambiguity related to the small number of people who claimed to use nicotine vape only, and who knows on that?

Not calling for ban, and I very seriously doubt there is some massive blackout / coverup going on. Campaign clarifying is and did happen, and doing that makes sense given how politically, and unnecessarily the issue of vaping is charged right now.

There is some media blackout action on Sanders, this matter aside. Would be nice if that were not true.

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is Sanders right?

Should disease causing devices be banned? Well... no. Despite the inherent danger the freedom to choose also acts as an economic incentive.

The war on drugs failed because the government lacks the power to stop its creation and transportation. The last thing we need is Cartel Brand Vapes.

Banning them won't fix the issue.

Oh, almost forgot. There's also the problem that a lot of Sanders's supporters use vapes themselves, so whoops on his part.