{"id":19761,"date":"2019-10-22T19:56:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=19761"},"modified":"2019-10-22T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:56:39","slug":"from-the-cdc-e-cigarette-use-or-vaping-practices-and-characteristics-among-persons-with-associated-lung-injury-utah-april-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/19761","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE CDC &#8211; E-cigarette Use, or Vaping, Practices and Characteristics Among Persons with Associated Lung Injury \u2014 Utah, April\u2013October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can read the entire report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6842e1.htm?fbclid=IwAR3Dyjhm7N6P_kS4m_akwEEzusrzYDThcVFk7dl7MHfFAuWeBaJEha6ggOg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>, but I looked at a few numbers and tried to better understand them.\u00a0 Specifically the following numbers:<\/p>\n<p>83 Total Patients<br \/>\n53 Total Patients Interviewed<br \/>\n49 Vaped &amp; Used THC<br \/>\n17 Vaped &amp; Used ONLY THC<br \/>\n35 Vaped &amp; Used Nicotine<br \/>\n3 Vaped &amp; Used ONLY Nicotine<br \/>\n32 Vaped &amp; Used THC &amp; Nicotine<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I concluded:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The issue is with THC (I think we all know this by now). Specifically the illicit, illegal, tainted, drug dealer kind. You know, the kind that NO ban is going to be able to fix. Yeah, those.<\/li>\n<li>Only 53 of the 83 patients were interviewed pointing to a very incompetent CDC.<\/li>\n<li>53 were &#8220;interviewed&#8221; not tested. Pointing to, again,\u00a0 a very incompetent CDC. God forbid there is ever a REAL public health emergency. I guess we can&#8217;t test to find out the REAL problem.<\/li>\n<li>3 patients were afraid to get scolded by Mommy and Daddy and did not tell the truth which was made possible by the very incompetent CDC.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 53 patients &#8220;interviewed&#8221; 4 didn&#8217;t vape anything so we clearly need to ban EVERYTHING until we find out the cause of THAT problem.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My apologies if this post leads to the banning of everything.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an adult smoker and want a substantially safer way to get your nicotine than that of a traditional tobacco cigarette.\u00a0 Have a look at vaping.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a current nicotine vaper and are concerned by what you&#8217;re hearing in the news, DO NO go back to smoking!!\u00a0 The issue is not with nicotine vaping.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t smoke and don&#8217;t vape continue to do neither!!\u00a0 \u00a0Even though you may be VERY concerned by those mysterious 4 people in #5 above.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"FROM%20THE%20CDC%20-%20E-cigarette%20Use%2C%20or%20Vaping%2C%20Practices%20and%20Characteristics%20Among%20Persons%20with%20Associated%20Lung%20Injury%20%E2%80%94%20Utah%2C%20April%E2%80%93October%202019\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read the entire report HERE, but I looked at a few numbers and tried to better understand them.\u00a0 Specifically the following numbers: 83&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19763,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761\/revisions\/19763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}