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Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage (www.bbc.co.uk)
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A 12-year-old girl who suffered a lung collapse and spent four days in an induced coma has told the BBC that children should never start vaping.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So seriously - who's peddling this anti-vaping propaganda and what's their goal?

And

Vaping is easily the most effective way to stop smoking that's ever existed.

Care to make a wild guess who's behind the propaganda?

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tobacco companies are in on the vape industry, though

[–] DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes but exclusively sold alongside cigarettes afaik. They've been lobbying to pass legislation that kills any other companies, and it's been working.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The entire history of banning shit like cigarette advertising and flavors is regulatory capture.

Awful lot of common people in support of this shit, though.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

I reckon you’re 100% on the money here. The big tobacco companies push all this drama and concern about the health effects so that everyone thinks the industry needs to be more regulated, that allows them to kill off the smaller competition and push up prices.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You don't actually know what regulatory capture is, do you?

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When you use regulations to keep or increase your market share? Yeah. Look up the history of advert bans. When big tobacco feels threatened or could save money congress passes laws for them. It's sick. Our country is sick.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's not regulatory capture...lmfao.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

It's one of the main results of it and the bit of it I was referring to.