E-cigarettes spawn a form of teen addiction that worries doctors, parents and schools

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Like BigPharma pushing synthetic opioids hard, for profit, Juul, etc are doing the same

Kristin Beauparlant noticed a change.

The hockey player began getting gassed more easily on the ice.

Beauparlant could hear her son’s coughing and wheezing from the stands.

But it was his demeanor that scared her most.

Cade Beauparlant’s anxiety and mood swings worsened,

his outbursts so sudden and so explosive that his mother said she came to fear him.
It took more than three years — and help from a renowned pediatrician — to understand what was going on:

Her son was addicted to nicotine, delivered by a Juul, a sleek e-cigarette that looks like a USB drive.

pediatricians report seeing teens who behave less like tobacco users and more like patients with substance-abuse disorders.

After more than three years of vaping daily, Beauparlant was diagnosed with restrictive lung disease.

they are witnessing for the first time the damage that repeated exposure to high levels of nicotine wreaks on young bodies.

Many products, including Juul,

allow users to ingest far more nicotine than they would with traditional cigarettes.

Concerns over teen use fueled a ban on e-cigarette sales that was adopted in June by San Francisco — a move that made it the first major city to prohibit the nicotine-delivery devices.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...nl_most&wpmm=1

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the oligarchy pays, Trash and everybody else dances

The e-cig industry poured money into lobbying prior to Trump's reversal on vaping ban

Trump's reversal on vaping isn't merely impulsive, but exemplary of Big Tobacco's (or Big Vape's) hold on D.C.

“We can’t allow people to get sick,” he said. “And we can’t have our youth be so affected.”

, he refused to sign the one-page "decision memo,” saying he didn’t want to move forward with a ban he had once backed, primarily at his wife’s and daughter’s urging, because he feared it would lead to job losses, said a Trump adviser who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal internal deliberations.

the tobacco industry is seizing the opportunity to mount its own assault on the programs and policies that have reduced smoking in this country,”

Trump’s announcement of the proposed ban caught the vaping industry off-guard which triggered them to go into crisis mode and go on a lobbyist hiring spree.

Juul spent $1.2 million on federal lobbying during the third quarter of this year, a record for the company.

Perhaps the tweets and in-person protests that swayed Trump are a result of that hefty spending.

https://www.salon.com/2019/11/18/the-e-cig-industry-poured-money-into-lobbying-prior-to-trumps-reversal-on-vaping-ban/

BigTobacco certainly got the message to Trash that if he didn't ban fruity vaping, the BigTobacco would give him $10Ms for his re-election.

The kind of corrupt quid pro quo transaction that Trash lives by.