Tennessee Department of Health Appears to Have Deliberately Blamed E-Cigarettes for a Death It Knew Was Caused by THC Carts

Yesterday, I revealed that the Tennessee Department of Healthreported its first death from vaping-associated respiratory illness as follows: "The Tennessee Department of Health has reported one death in a patient with serious respiratory disease associated with use of electronic cigarettes or other vaping devices. This is the first such death reported in Tennessee. "As it turns out, it appears that this death was not caused by electronic cigarettes, but byTHC vape carts.I suggested that the health department ' s reporting of the death as being associated with the use of " electronic cigarettes or other vaping devices " would be like reporting a death from contaminated lettuce by saying: " The Tennessee Department of Health has reported one death in a patient with severe Salmonella poisoning associated with the consumption of lettuce or other vegetables. "However, I realize that this analogy is not actually correct. More precisely, it would be like reporting a death from contaminated lettuce by saying: " The Tennessee Department of Health has reported one death in a patient with severe Salmonella poisoning associated with the consumption of artichokes or other vegetables. "The Rest of the StoryIt seems to me that one wouldn ' t report a death associated with the consumption of contaminated lettuce as being " associated with the consumption of artichokes or other vegetables " unless you were intentionally trying to deceive the public into thinking that artichokes were responsib...
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