I thought it might be, I used to work at the Navy Exchange about that long ago and remember taking that stuff off the shelf.
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darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
This photo is like 5 years old.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 month ago
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Isn’t this from the popcorn lung scare?
robocall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wasn’t the popcorn lung due to amateur vape producers mixing it with vitamin e oil?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yup, but the New York Times still runs disingenuous articles about it, to this day.
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Honestly, I don’t recall. That might have been the reason given, but I’m willing to bet tobacco lobbyist money was at least as big of a factor. Either way, I had managed to quit cigarettes and vapes by the time they banned them, so I didn’t really pay it too much attention.
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
A lot of big vape brands are owned by big tobacco companies.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Popcorn was a legit scary thing because nobody knew what was causing it in the vapes. If I’m not mistaken it turned out to be something to do with a food safe additive that either was or turned into vitamin E when heated and was not safe to inhale. It was the cheap unregulated vape juices that were using that additive and the young people who are over heating and over juicing their vapes to rip those huge clouds that were effected. It’s just one more example of how important drug and food regulations are.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There never was a popcorn lung outbreak in vapes. Lipid pneumonia is not popcorn lung. Freebase nicotine is water soluable so it’s always been dissolved with glycerol. THC is fat soluable so it was what was causing the lipid pneumonia. Popcorn lung is a very specific disease caused by diacetyl and I’m unaware of any cases of that, none the less an outbreak.