AndriaD
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Speaking of Juul... I mentioned that I've been hanging out a lot over at Quora; someone today asked a question about vaping/Juul, and this was my response:
Is there any definitive proof that vaping (JUUL) is detrimental to one’s health?
Nope, not one iota. However there is a real lot of hysterical posturing, ignorant blathering, and general stupidity.
Vaping is the MOST EFFECTIVE means of quitting smoking, or preventing smoking, THAT HAS EVER BEEN INVENTED. This is why Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, and various gov’ts are so deadset against it — if everyone quits smoking, there will be no more tobacco taxes to prop up incompetent bureaucracies, so the unethical who have invested in the continuation of smoking — those states which have sold tobacco bonds against future tobacco sales — are really feeling the pinch, and are desperate to try and do anything they can to discourage vaping, in ANY form.
Any never-smoker who might be interested in vaping, whether a Juul or any other form of vaping, is someone who might have been interested in smoking, if vaping did not exist. Many of those who try smoking, become so addicted that it’s nearly impossible for them to quit, or perhaps they manage to quit for a time, but inevitably go back to it — and vaping is a good thing for those people too, even if they have already quit smoking by whatever means — vaping can help them prevent a relapse to smoking.
In England, there is an organization called the Royal College of Physicians — a very well-respected organization, who were the FIRST to announce the dangers of smoking, beating the US Surgeon General by several years on that pronouncement. The Royal College of Physicians has stated, DEFINITIVELY, that “the dangers of vaping cannot exceed 5% of the dangers of smoking, and is probably less.” That means that vaping is AT LEAST 95% safer than smoking. Public Health England says exactly the same thing.
Just in case you’re actually interested in TRUTH rather than hysterical posturing, ignorant blathering, and general stupidity, here are some links which I urge anyone who cares to go and read:
Dr. Farsolinos: http://www.ecigarette-research.org
Clive Bates: https://www.clivebates.com/
Brad Rodu: https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspo...
Dr Michael Siegel: http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot....
Carl V. Phillips: https://antithrlies.com/
Dick Puddlecote: http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.com/
Christopher Snowdon: https://velvetgloveironfist.blog...
E-Cigarette Politics: http://www.ecigarette-politics.com/
Andria
Is there any definitive proof that vaping (JUUL) is detrimental to one’s health?
Nope, not one iota. However there is a real lot of hysterical posturing, ignorant blathering, and general stupidity.
Vaping is the MOST EFFECTIVE means of quitting smoking, or preventing smoking, THAT HAS EVER BEEN INVENTED. This is why Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, and various gov’ts are so deadset against it — if everyone quits smoking, there will be no more tobacco taxes to prop up incompetent bureaucracies, so the unethical who have invested in the continuation of smoking — those states which have sold tobacco bonds against future tobacco sales — are really feeling the pinch, and are desperate to try and do anything they can to discourage vaping, in ANY form.
Any never-smoker who might be interested in vaping, whether a Juul or any other form of vaping, is someone who might have been interested in smoking, if vaping did not exist. Many of those who try smoking, become so addicted that it’s nearly impossible for them to quit, or perhaps they manage to quit for a time, but inevitably go back to it — and vaping is a good thing for those people too, even if they have already quit smoking by whatever means — vaping can help them prevent a relapse to smoking.
In England, there is an organization called the Royal College of Physicians — a very well-respected organization, who were the FIRST to announce the dangers of smoking, beating the US Surgeon General by several years on that pronouncement. The Royal College of Physicians has stated, DEFINITIVELY, that “the dangers of vaping cannot exceed 5% of the dangers of smoking, and is probably less.” That means that vaping is AT LEAST 95% safer than smoking. Public Health England says exactly the same thing.
Just in case you’re actually interested in TRUTH rather than hysterical posturing, ignorant blathering, and general stupidity, here are some links which I urge anyone who cares to go and read:
Dr. Farsolinos: http://www.ecigarette-research.org
Clive Bates: https://www.clivebates.com/
Brad Rodu: https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspo...
Dr Michael Siegel: http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot....
Carl V. Phillips: https://antithrlies.com/
Dick Puddlecote: http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.com/
Christopher Snowdon: https://velvetgloveironfist.blog...
E-Cigarette Politics: http://www.ecigarette-politics.com/
Andria
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on our door so I decorated it up a little as well. Wife made up some peanut butter fudge and I 
it all up. My 
was over Halloween this year. Think I am switching back to a thirteen month (lunar) calendar just so I can keep time sorted for myself. Kind of grew up with folks that could recall their grand father's and fathers using lunar calendars. Bit of interesting factoid about Timberville, VA, one of the towns I grew up around, there were lumber runners and farmers there four hundred years ago and yes European. They just within the last five years tore down a four hundred year old farm house, mansion. There was a barn about five hundred years old that about a decade ago finally gave way under some flooding and high winds. Just some odd bit of history of folks.
