Wisconsin Physician Warns Public That A Single Puff from a Nicotine Vape Could Kill You

There is an inordinate amount of unjustified hysteria about the dangers of electronic cigarettes. And it continues to drive me crazy to read article after article which talks about how a 17-year-old youth almost died and had to be put on a ventilator for several days and then immediately transitions to a discussion of the health dangers of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, which dominates the remainder of the article. If you ' re lucky, there is at most one sentence which parenthetically notes that the youth was vaping THC.It is also tremendously frustrating to read statement after statement from the CDC in which it notes that 89% of the outbreak case patients admitted to vaping THC obtained off the black market and then immediately undermines that point by emphasizing that " no single product " has been identified which explains 100% of the cases (as if an epidemiologic investigationever finds a single common exposure).Yet despite the general hysteria and the specific conflation of the respiratory disease outbreak with the problem of youth e-cigarette use, today ' s story has to take the cake.The Rest of the StoryIn anarticle by Milwaukee ' s NBC news station, a physician warns the public that a single puff of a nicotine e-cigarette could kill you.Specifically, he is quoted as stating that: " It literally can kill you the first time you try it. "Perhaps he is talking about black market THC vape carts, which aren ' t going to kill you in one puff but could potentially lead to...
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