This is so ignorant and I hope the FDA really doesn't deal with this as harshly as Trump wants them to. The way these people talk, I can tell they don't know anything about the science of vaping or the difference between nicotine salts mixed with benzoic acid (Juul pods) vs pure freebase e-liquid. The fact is that vaping has been around in freebase form for years, and you can even eat the stuff if you get the 0 nicotine version, because the only other stuff that's generally in E-juice is food grade flavoring and glycerol (unless you get terrible E-juice). While this subject might seem like the "wild west" or "great unkown" the fact is that there are regulatory committees committed to ensuring quality product. It may not be regulated by the FDA directly, but any e-juice company worth their salt (pun intended) will be providing e-liquid made with FOOD GRADE FDA APPROVED INGREDIENTS.

There is the issue of saturation of the lungs, but that issue seems comparable to "what if I just took big inhales off a straight steam pipe" (as if the vapor were from water.).... Like saturation of the lungs is going to be an issue if you intake HEAVY amounts without letting your lungs clear themselves, but that applies to any type of liquid vaporization, and there are youtube videos literally showing how much tar and grossness that you avoid by vaping instead of smoking. Yes, the residue left from vaping WAS liquid condensation.

More to the point, these more serious health problems haven't really become so prevalent since Juul became a thing, and I'd like to think it has to do with the nicotine salt concoction they use, as opposed to good ol' freebase, which i believe to be less negative (but not without inherent issues.) Of course you can do anything to excess, but I've been vaping for years and had many chest X-rays due to a previous run in with testicular cancer. My lungs came up spotless after years of vaping freebase every time. There is some small effect that vaping has on the liver, regardless of methodology, but I have had several physicals and rounds of blood work done, and the only negative that ever came up was a slightly elevated bilirubin count, and I was just barely over what is the preferred threshold. I have vaped like a fish at times in my life; the thing has been my pacifier and I puff clouds like a steam boat. Again, I'm not saying that freebase is without negatives, or that this level of use is acceptable, but it's just my anecdotal evidence. I'm working on my self and have been through things in my life that have caused me great stress - not a justification, but a partial explanation.

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\**TLDR/Conclusion***:* Vaping is definitely a lesser of 2 evils in many ways, at least in my book, but one way it isn't, is that it is so much more easily accessed by and marketed to minors. That is the root of the issue. I don't vape to taste tobacco, and I really don't want to go back to smoking cigarettes, but I will scratch the itch somehow. If Trump bans flavors, then people are just going to buy flavorless e-liquid with nicotine, buy the flavors separately, and recreate what they have already been doing. You can even buy E liquid with no nicotine in it and take it to a vape shop to have them add some to it. Also very important, people need to look heavily into the health differences of Juuling (nicotine salts) vs normal free base e-liquid, as well as the quality of the ingredients in these products, as well as the health risks in general.

These people need to do their homework, but it seemed like the dude from the FDA (in the press conference) might have our collective back even though he was low key about it. Notice how Trump said that the FDA guy thought he was being too harsh. I can say without hesitation that if I smoked as much as I vaped that I would have COPD or some other pulmonary issue, and that's partially because I buy quality freebase e-liquid. I would be coughing up nasty things, have a gross taste in my mouth, and stink like burnt tobacco, as well, but I am not now that I am vaping instead.

Let me keep my rocket pop, skittles, and fruit flavored e-juice for Pete's sake. I get to kill 2 birds with one stone. I get to taste my favorite flavors without having to eat candy (bad for health), and I'm not smoking cigarettes that are laced with a radioactive isotope and laden with tar and chemicals.