
…arettes have a lower risk of cancer (because of fewer cancer-causing chemicals from tobacco smoke), the likelihood of having a heart attack or lung disease if you are a daily e-cigarette user approaches that of being a daily smoker.
The higher dose of nicotine in Juul products may have a big impact on a teenage brain, which research has shown is more susceptible to the effects of the drug. Until the age of 25, the brain is still growing new connections between neurons while simultaneously pruning out unused ones. Adding a psychoactive substance to the brain can derail this process, says Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a professor of pediatrics at Stanford University.
…bly go wrong when fascist-authoritarians have the power to strip, exile, imprison, intern, torture, dispossess, expropriate anyone they like, at any time, for any reason — and there’s nothing left but a judge or two to stop them, this month, until they try again, and again, and again? It can’t happen here. But didn’t it? Isn’t it?