Stossel: Let Them Vape

Vaping may not be safe, but it's a lot safer than cigarettes.
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Our government says e-cigarettes and vaping are the latest "epidemic" among teens. So the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it will restrict them. Cities across the country are banning e-cigarette use in public.
But e-cigarettes help smokers quit traditional cigarettes. Michelle Minton of the Competitive Enterprise Institute tells John Stossel that people have misconceptions about e-cigarettes. "It's about 95 percent less harmful than a normal traditional cigarette," she says.
That's because e-cigarettes let people get a hit of nicotine without actually burning tobacco. The burning of paper and tobacco leaves is what makes cigarettes so dangerous.
Minton admits that the nicotine in e-cigarettes is addictive. But "on the spectrum of drugs that you can become addicted to, nicotine and caffeine are very similar to each other."
The Surgeon General says there are other health risks to vaping: "Besides nicotine, e-cigarettes can contain harmful and potentially harmful ingredients."
Despite the dangers, researchers seem to agree that e-cigarettes are substantially less dangerous than combustible cigarettes.
Other studies concluded that long-term e-cigarette use is "associated with substantially reduced levels of measured carcinogens and toxicants relative to cigarette-only smoking."
Nevertheless, the FDA threatens to crack down to discourage kids from using e-cigarettes.
Minton says that is a bad idea: "Do we want children to become addicted to anything? No....But keeping a small percent of teenagers from trying e-cigarettes is not worth sacrificing adults whose lives could be saved."
The views expressed in this video are solely those of John Stossel; his independent production company, Stossel Productions; and the people he interviews. The claims and opinions set forth in the video and accompanying text are not necessarily those of Reason.

[@RedRedux]

Cigarettes= gov profit Vaping Nicotine= no gov profit 🤔🤔🤔 geeze I wonder what the problem here is.

[@jshepard152]

Cmac You know they've been waging war on cigarettes for sixty years, right?

[@ad356]

@@jshepard152 nothing more then a guise to make it look like they care. they want you to smoke, get sick, and eventually die. there is money in that process. oh, on the way use their government approved and ineffective cessation device.

[@abram730]

@@jshepard152 No, they just wanted money and got that money. Getting people off of cigarettes and saving millions of lives endangers that money.

[@adelaidemarie]

Cmac and That’s the ticket. The lose of sin tax. This Tells me we should Never add a sin tax again. It leads to greed and corruption and the loss of lives.

[@adelaidemarie]

J Shepard that was no war. This is a war.

[@bmw803]

They're scared that they will lose all that tax money. And those FDA bureaucrats will have to find a real job,.

[@michaelsieger9133]

So making sure your food is not toxic and medicine is safe and effective is a waste of time? Fucking libertarian goobers, always spreading their cheeks for big business😂😂

[@abram730]

@@michaelsieger9133 Our food is poisonous. Giving a child more than 2 ounces of juice a day will harm them for example. The juice is poisonous, just like most food products. Ecigs put out less chemicals than frying an egg. Many e-cig tests are contaminated by air, showing toxins not present in the juice or created in vaping process.

[@sesquipedalianmug8727]

No states like NJ and Cali get paid off by big tabbacco companies for selling cigarettes ecigs are fucking with their money click this link to see how kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5W1mnufo795p80

[@zjanez2868]

dont worry government bueraucrats never lose thir jobs

[@V-Masterbuilder]

Teens have been smoking in the toilets for 30+ years.. parents and schools do your job.

[@SPITZtheGOD]

Clearly vaping is the reason kids were smoking back then. That's how evil it is. It corrupts our youth, not only in our current timeline, but in all timelines. Lol

[@robertsparkman8516]

Make that about 70 years

[@no_name4aday]

Ya used to stand on the toilet and it up to the vents

[@gunnersingleton4788]

Ever heard the song "Smokin in the boys room?" Check the release date of that song

[@SpookeyClown]

@@SPITZtheGOD hahahahahahahaha so bad it traverses timelines. I love you man.

[@mark7s980]

After 30 years of smoking. And after trying every new cessation technique. Patches, pills, hypnosis, etc. Vaping FINALLY helped me quit smoking altogether! As of August 10th, 2018 I've been completely nicotine free. I don't even use the vapor pen anymore.

[@altuwaijri5008]

Good for u 👍👍

[@jimhalpert3409]

Mark 7's good for you. It’s simply your brain being tricked into thinking it’s doing the same thing as it’s always done but the upside is it’s significantly healthier and a zero percent chance of cancer.

[@jewelk4986]

What vaping product help you quit cigs?

[@TheDandyMann]

Reverse psychology, tell someone they can't do something and then they go and do it to spite you.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

Yep so sit your kid down and give them pack of smokes and bottle of vodka and say I'm gonna watch you finish them both

[@gdobie1west988]

If people choose to abuse their bodies in any way, that's up to them, just don't come crying down the road if you develop health issues from it.

[@trennan8291]

Maybe, but the amoint of people that do it out of spite is still incredibly less than would do it if no one said not to do it. Some people actually have brains.

[@auspicious6554]

The government hates vapes because it's competition to cigarettes... which is taxed.

[@AetherXIV]

fuck it! its all about the damn money, not people's well being

[@elias_xp95]

So just tax the vapes instead?

[@MaddJakd]

@@elias_xp95 Don't give them ide..... too late

[@elias_xp95]

@@MaddJakd I'd rather pay a tax than serve time or pay a fine. Doesn't mean I approve of taxation. Just means I think it is the better of the 2 evils. Let people do what they want to and with their bodies maaan.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

just classify anything containing nicotine as the same. Tobacco, Vapes, Smokes, Snuff, Chew, Hookahs - it's all addictive.

[@IansRcFun]

Im 41. I started smoking at 13 and smoked for 23 years. Ive been vaping for 5 or 6 years, and have never felt better. I run and bike long distances without even a cough. Not even one

[@pokimaster2491]

BOOM, the gov are greedy

[@Bekooooooooooo]

Keep going bro.. Same like you

[@jewelk4986]

What's the best vaping product to replace smoking cigs?

[@IansRcFun]

@@jewelk4986 You have to experiment with different equipment and juices to find what you like. It's all about finding something that you like vaping on more than you like smoking cigarettes. Once you find that, it's easy to quit smoking. Atleast it was for me

[@IntrospectivePest]

@@jewelk4986 What Jewel K said, Get an inexpensive vape pen and small amounts of various flavours and see which one you like. I most vape cola, and sometimes grape, but there are plenty of others that I like and ofcourse others that I hate the taste, just trial and error for the most part, but its rare you wont like the basic fruit flavours like strawberry, apple, grape, passionfruit....

[@metroidmayhem8463]

Why cant the U.S. be like Portugal? Legalize everything and step back. Edit: decriminalize all drugs

[@gamer2101]

I totally agree. We are loosing this war on drugs.

[@gambitlopez73]

Legalize everything and step back? That doesn't sound like profit for the corrupt elitists

[@TheOniric1]

We did no such thing. There is a huge difference between decriminalization and depenalization... We just did the first.

[@1991USsoldier]

@@gamer2101 and? If people wanna kill themselves with drugs, it's not the government's place to play the role of parent.

[@jessiegonzalez5906]

thing is there’s a lot of dummies in this country (US)

[@LordSinclair420]

"If you ban vapes, it will create a dangerous black market, making the problem worse. " Welcome, vapers, to the gun control debate. Glad to have you.

[@stevenvictx]

Nicotine is no worse and about the same thing as caffeine, you know, that stuff that people who cant function without, such as coffee, energy drinks, or soda.

[@KakashiHatake-xq6wx]

Who else is vaping while watching this video

[@curtiskennedy3761]

Lol I started smoking at 16.. so I mean.. no ones taking cigarettes off shelves.

[@LilSwitty]

Ranyel Duran I vapin that infinix boiiii

[@ZiggyZara420]

Same

[@Mr_Makina]

I vape 0 nicotine, to break the habit of smoking Cannabis, when it gets too much for me. I've got a bad habit of smoking and not stopping, I smoke around an ounce a fortnight for my chronic pain and spasms, so when I run out, it's like "oh fuck, back to pharmaceuticals" and then missing the routine smoking each morning and it's just the habit of smoking, not the drug it's self and It's been 3 weeks, not bothered... I'll keep using a vape until my next crop is down but some have said I should try 3mg or 6mg to fill the void of the psychoactive high, i dunno though. I'm having a spasm at the minute, so sorry if that's a incomprehensible cluster fuck to read, if people actually care and reply, I'll probably simplify it.

[@setujin2395]

Vaping on reds apple xD

[@noexcusedrummer]

I was a pack a day for 5 years. 6 years ago I started vaping (an early adopter). I don't cloud chase, I am discreet, and I vape by simply taking a hit, then holding it in till the vapor dissipates in my lungs, and breath it out and there is no visual evidence that I even did so. Maybe it's because I used to be a smoker and I know nobody wants second hand smoke that I try my best to be courteous to others. Maybe It's just because I'm 36 and I'm older and know better. Irregardless, Thank you reason for doing this video. The stigma around vaping comes from misinformation and attempts at crony capitalism by big tobacco to staunch their competition so they can provide their own e-cigs with additives they want to make them more addictive and cancerous. We KNOW what is in our vape juice. It's on the bottles, declared by most juice makers on public spaces, and studies by impartial groups have shown them to be far less harmful than regular cigarettes. All I know, is that 6 years ago, after transitioning to vaping over 3 months(I had to get the other bad stuff from regular cigs out of my system, and it was not fun) I started to get my taste buds back for food that I didn't even know where gone. The smell of ash was no longer everywhere. My dentist comments that over the next few years my teeth are no longer stained, My doctor has noticed I'm not going in as much for allergy relief and that my blood pressure has evened out. Don't buy into the lies, do your own research on the ingredients. Just be a good buyer and know what you are buying. Leave Government out of it.

[@jewelk4986]

What vaping product would you suggest to transition from smoking cigs?

[@KaiIngebrigtsen]

Do you own your own body and mind?? if the answer is yes then you have the right to do with your property as you wish as long as you do not harm others..

[@TheSwamper]

A million times this! Let people make their own choices. They're allowed. There are many risky things people choose to do, let them have the freedom to make those choices.

[@anthonyburke3000]

Their are some wack jobs out there who don't believe you do. The majority of them believe in communism.

[@fritsfmn]

yeah free abort

[@ronpaulrevered]

@Hans Then you concede someone else owns your own body and mind.

[@robertslydell6990]

I think you earn a "Literally Hitler" from the SJW/parasite crowd for wanting to own your own life.

[@TheCCampbell87]

Kids will be kids, I started smoking in 9th grade and have been since vaping is literally saving my life.

[@kenzor9138]

2 1/2 pack a day ended with my e-cigs 8 years ago. If gov't taxed the e-cigs they would promote them.

[@jewelk4986]

What e-cig brand help you quit?

[@dipaolodarius27]

She's right about making my own risk, if i can sign my life away at 18 to fight for this country why shouldn't I be allowed to vape or gamble, my state has already restricted my freedoms, I feel like I'm not an adult

[@BenDover-zq6ey]

The FDA has much bigger issues at hand. Like the opioid epidemic currently going on. Instead they focus resources on something as silly as vaping.

[@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks]

the solution to the opioid epidemic is to legalize opioids on the mass market. this will make them much more available, and in a better more controlled quality and quantity. most drug addicts rather go to a pharmacist then a drug dealer when it comes to these substances. it's safer for them, better for them, and more readily available. oh and by making ALL DRUGS openly available there should be much less crime and gun violence in key cities like chicago and new york.

[@BenDover-zq6ey]

The Obsesed Anime Freaks agreed. But assuming that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. I’m just trying to make a point. Comparatively what should they focus on.

[@adonaiorion]

My understanding is that the crisis isn't street related, but abuse of prescription. The opioid crisis needs a complex solution as it isn't an access or legality issue, but rather the aftermath of getting happy with prescribing it for financial gain by those who profit from the prescriptions. You are talking about rehabilitating a system of illness. The pain epidemic is closer to the issue, and the prescription of opioids as a quick solution is what got people where they are now. Addicted and now it's making its way on the streets, for obvious reasons.

[@adonaiorion]

side note, I agree it is a much more important issue to address, however, it isn't because they are making less money, so hence the skewed priorities. To us, anything that harms the people are strong problems, and anything that improves - good ideas. To the ill intended, it might be more about money than anything else, the wellbeing of people, the environment, health, etc. are the least of their priorities.

[@BlackCatWhiteFace]

Vaping has killed 0 people. What’s the butcher bill for prescription opioids?

[@lainsexpo6476]

Remove the FDA

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

Send them to the moon with Willzyx and Tom Cruise.

[@freedomwarrior5087]

It's all shadow government.

[@richardsantanna5398]

No. They do plenty of good.

[@shipwreck9146]

I really hope you realize that when stuff get's messed up, it's almost never at the fault of the FDA. They're tasked with monitoring nearly all consumable products that are not only produced in the US, but also products that are imported to the US. They're required to operate on a global scale, and perform routine checks on production facilities in both our country, and in other countries, to make sure that people in the US are safe to use their products. Problems begin when people counterfeit products. The FDA isn't responsible for that asshole, Kyle, that sells counterfeit THC carts that are cut with vitamin e acetate.

[@kangjhha]

yes, please remove the ex-corporate execs

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

Pastry flavors satiated my sweet tooth, created an oral fixation that curbs my boredom eating. I've gone from 250 to 200 pounds, and am now light enough to do the intense workouts I was doing in college. All without traditional lung problems.

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

@vide fa flavor is flavor.

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

fan yes I'm aware, but don't you look at an ingredients list when shopping? All vape flavors are OVERWHELMINGLY a (glucose sugar) base.

[@princesslulu5795]

That makes me wonder if I should try that. I crave sugar a lot and I end up eating poorly and I’m now 215 pounds and I’m a 5’4” almost 25 year old female. But I also have asthma and allergies. Would the vaping stuff or nicotine be safe for me?

[@princesslulu5795]

machineguntongue I’ve never smoked or used tobacco before. I’m afraid to because of the chemicals and I have asthma. Even being around smoke makes it hard to breathe. Being around people who vape has never been an issue for me.

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

@@princesslulu5795 I wouldn't bother with the nicotine strength, but the sweet tooth flavors might help you.

[@adelaidemarie]

11 million people vaping. When’s the last time someone had a battery explode?

[@naruhearts1]

It's not necessarily super uncommon but when they do happen it's from people using them on Mech or Series mods by using bad batteries or mistreating them. Aka. user error

[@jayl3840]

Battery problems normally happen when a newbie tries to use a mech mod and doesn't know ohms law or battery safety

[@differentbutsimilar7893]

@@jayl3840 I don't think it's even ohms law, most decent batteries are damned hard to vent by coil overcurrent. Unless you're blasting it sustained continuously I don't really see it. It's not like the battery just blows up when you go 5 or 10 amps over the limit. It certainly gets damaged, but not like that. Even a hard short takes some time going to begin venting, and is tough to miss. I had a wrap tear unnoticed in a tube mod and start arcing inside the enclosure. Over 15 seconds it went from imperceptible to practically burning my leg hot and took probably another 30 seconds fumbling to get it out. At this point the mod was too hot to touch. It burned my hand and I dropped it like a hot potato the moment I had the battery dealt with. And yet, in that 45 seconds of insane, impossible to miss heat, it never vented. Maybe I was lucky, but that seems like plenty of time to notice something burning hot on your leg. Purse might be a different deal. You can find videos of 18650s being brought to vent. Ultimately it can be dramatic, but it's nowhere near as quick as I think people imagine it to be. By all means, battery safety is essential. But when people attribute these rare cases to certain forms of misuse I really do think they unknowingly overexaggerate the dangers of the batteries we use a little bit. The chemistries have a pretty longstanding safety profile at this point, none of them are really new. And they're nowhere near as vulnerable to acute meltdowns, even at their breaking point, they may never have a dramatic breakdown. The idea behind best practices is to statistically negate the risk. It's like gun safety. You have multiple rules preventing the same things, so if you accidentally break 1, 2... even 3 of those rules, you will still avoid disaster. So you follow all of them like they're your 9 lives and sleep easy. But it's not like you break 1 or 2 and a cataclysm happens. It's more like "WOAH, not cool." and life goes on. We're talking seriously egregious negligence if a newcomer manages to pop a battery. If anything, it'll be experienced people building up one too many bad habits over the years - a la the avalanche fallacy. I think one of the early big cases was when hybrids were new. Really unfortunate - there was damage to his face. Somebody put on I think an Aspire tank with a spring-loaded contact. In hybrids, the insulator on the bottom keeps the positive end of the battery locked in constant, direct contact with positive on the topper, with the button closing the negative side to make a circuit. The spring-loaded contact on the tank just goes flush with the insulated negative of the body as they both meet the battery. So when you fire it, it just shorts across those two, completely bypassing the coil. The guy was having problems with it kinda vaping on/off, or not vaping at all other times. I think every time he was doing that, he was pumping up that battery. It may have been staying cooler, but it was still heavily degraded. Lots of hard pulses continuously at near non-resistance. He had just gotten it, first time. The battery was questionable too IIRC. Really had no business having it. Can't believe someone sold it to him. I can't see that happening now. This was still kinda wild-west, total grassroots with the odd bigger operation. Not to mention stuff is held to a better unspoken standard now, with safety features being universal. It used to be people thought vent holes in the mod and a locking button were good enough... now the actual potential for shorts is designed out of them. Even with the perfect battery tear you'd be very unlucky to short a hybrid. If you did, I'd have half a mind to accuse you of doing it on purpose! It's just not a thing anymore. Devices are safer. Batteries are better. User error now just means it doesn't work, 99% of the time of course. Popularity of mechs is down, too. And if it's ever happened in a regulated device, I've not seen it. The pocket thing I'd half assume had to be loose battery + metal in pocket. People investigating probably wouldn't have consider this and instead focused on the device. But to me the most likely way of venting one in your pocket is having it loose and pushed up deep in a penny or something lol

[@nikolehtonen3747]

So also these other devises can exploude Phone battery Car battery So does anything else

[@gregoryeverson741]

the reason is simple, the government will lose money if every1 stops smoking cigs, its why the costs of a pack goes up 2 times a year minimum

[@TumbleSensei]

you are implying that governments can't just tax vapes or vape cartridges.

[@ytfanentretainer7775]

Hats off for Michelle Minton is the woman, loved when she say THE ESSENCE OF BEING A FREE HUMAN BEING “Adults should be able to decide what to do with their lives, money, etc” fundamentals of freedom. #Bansdoesntwork

[@themateese9754]

The ecig exploding is user error not “ defective device “

[@loganhardin73]

Yep

[@Slashx92]

of knock off batteries

[@kayokay470]

I used Vapes to quit smoking cigarettes. Went from 12mg of nicotine to 6 to 0 then quit that too.

[@thomass4153]

This woman is spitting straight facts.

[@bobman929]

By facts you mean lies because she is a paid PR. Sounds exactly like a climate change denier.

[@Angel-gs9rg]

@@bobman929 Uhm bro, IDK if you know this, but there have been studies showing that vaping is MUCH safer than smoking. Not good for you, but still WAAAAY better than smoking

[@Hugo-xb7dm]

@@Angel-gs9rg Umm "Bro" do some actual research and quit being a Libtard sheep that vapes for people to feel impressed.

[@TheJ3r3m1ahpelfreezy]

Tobacco industry playing dirty, let them vape!

[@gregball7775]

The reason the government, state and federal, are so upset about vaping is because of the Tobacco Master Settlement of 1998. It states that the governments are to receive a percentage of total sales . With sales going down, so are the payments. Most states already sold bonds on the projected payments from these settlements and are now facing default on these bonds.

[@keithhill1985]

What do you expect when you mess with the gov tax revenue. I smoked for years and after vaping for about a year I don’t do either. I’m a big supporter of vaping

[@looseele]

It's all about taxes. Tobacco is big $

[@jessicachanning2447]

The government never wanted us to quit smoking... they just wanted a way to push for more Taxes on those cigarettes. That is why there is a push back on e cigs... because they will loose tax revenue

[@colossalcollin]

I smoked a pack a day for 6 years (started when I was a juvenile) and used electric cigarettes to stop. Good thing I got to do it before the feds ruin the fun, like always.

[@quicksilver5426]

Bless this woman and John Stossel. FINALLY some truth gets through all the lies and propaganda.

[@JerryLiuYT]

Remember when they kept teaching abstinence in schools back in the 90s and 2000s, did young people stop having risky s? People need to take some simple lessons in psychology.

[@DetroitGoldie]

Jerry Liu ahaha exactly. I had my first child in 95 at the age of 18!

[@SPITZtheGOD]

They still do that. The more its proven that it doesnt work, the harder they try

[@johnneedle8119]

I used vaping to quit regular cigarettes then quit the ecig over five years ago wasn't a bad choice for me

[@Freedom-gd5vw]

It’s always about money. Don’t get me started on the F_ing plastic straws.

[@chaoslover8893]

No one seems to be making the argument of "If you want to punish someone. Punish the underage kids that are vaping." Vaping has been a 100% adult thing since it's inception until Juul, the main offender of vaping, came into the picture. Punish the kids, not the adults.

[@BenDover-zq6ey]

I started smoking at 16 as a way to cope with my clinical depression, now that I’m 19 I stopped smoking with the help of E-cigarettes. Now that the FDA is starting to restrict this, makes it much harder for me to continue to quit. But regardless in America we should be able to consume what we want.

[@Stacc001]

If you should be free to inhaile what you want, I should be free from it. Smoke/vape around your campfire, or in your home, or in a bar that allows it - but I shouldn't have to inhaile your strawberry- propylene glycol at every foot of my city's sidewalk.

[@gregoryeverson741]

@@Stacc001 go fuck yourself, want to know how fucking stupid you are? propylene glycol is in everyday products, now go sit down you little bitch, its in all the fucking soaps you use, from dishes, clothes, and even you body

[@98vwgolf]

@@Stacc001 god damn you're ignorant as hell

[@AetherXIV]

fuck the meddlers, do you, this is Merica

[@Rugg-qk4pl]

@@gregoryeverson741 im not eating soap, though.

[@stevesran968]

VAPING GOT ME AWAY FROM SMOKING TOBACCO....VAPING HAS IMPROVED MY HEALTH..

[@gdobie1west988]

Why not quit altogether?? Then you would save money and more of your health.

[@FelixVapes]

Exactly Fundamental freedom !! Vape on !!

[@RatedRLouisN.TNAwrestling]

Watching in 2019...?

[@tb-ng7oy]

Facts brooo

[@jeffiscondi5161]

2020

[@NgaBalkan]

2020 wuhan send its regards

[@WyattCayer]

This woman is a saint! Love the libertarian mindset.

[@7munkee]

So a couple hundred folks have gotten sick from vaping and two have died. (we need more than someone word on THAT claim). But at the same time, THOUSANDS die every day from smoking.

[@enceladus2263]

I wanted Stossel to hit that vape lmao

[@dyrtyharry6789]

Thanks. Switched to vaping over a year ago. Saved myself thousands

[@letsgoBrandon204]

When are people going to learn that you can't control behaviour by banning things left right and centre! Teach people personal responsibility and 95% of them will do the right thing (most of the time 😏)

[@dagvikings5340]

i like investigative journalism, this girls got it!!

[@angelolivencia68]

Tobacco industry are gangsters trying to demolish the vape industry.

[@JadendayZero]

this is like ICE vs EV all over again except the states are losing revenue from lack of heavily taxed cigarettes being sold

[@levi-mg6ue]

I've stopped vaping and started smoking due to the flavor ban

[@ronmalloy8504]

I've been vaping for 14 years and feel great vaping saved my life and my doctor agrees with me.

[@MR_slippyfist]

Vaping has had the best effects on my family I was the first to start and then slowly I got my dad to try it after smoking for 20 odd years and with in a few months he quit now he feels so much better in every aspect of daily life now my cousin has started and he has saved alot of money and he can do almost anything he wants.

[@Always_Right00]

Once again stossel is right. I love this guy he never lets me down.

[@RealSamski]

Encouraging to stop smoking at all..

[@ren2871]

I am a medical student who did a project about e-cigarettes for my public health course. I analyzed over 15 scientific research papers about this topic. As of 2020, there is no conclusive evidence about the long term health impact of vaping. No one knows anything about it, its merely hypothesized at this point. Sure, e-cigarettes contain carcinogenic substances, but its all about the dosage. The upside of vaping is that studies have shown it is the best way to get people to actually quit smoking tobacco. People's bodies, their choices. The attempted regulation of e-cigarettes hasn't stopped high school students from trying them. 27% of US high school students vape

[@grandpashreddypants]

Any updates on this since the brand new September 2019 zeitgeist against vaping? Anything to the recent deaths? Washington State just jumped on the ban-wagon and I think many will die if they succeed.

[@pamelafreeman2781]

I was a 40+ year smoker. I tried everything to quit. I started vaping and have not had a cigarette since. I can breath better. All my health markers are better - blood pressure, cholesterol, etc. I can breath better. I no longer wake up with a smoker’s cough. I am exercising now. I am healthier now b/c of vaping and I am reducing my nicotine slowly and will leave vaping also.

[@derekmulready1523]

I have no idea how many people in the world vape . but How many deaths have occured in the rest of the world besides the US visave vaping my docter told me that if I cant stop smoking try vapeing that was last January after 40+ years of smoking JOHN PLAYER and rolling tobaco without tips/Filters irish citizen and VAPER

[@The_Specialist]

I give her mad RESPECT. Thank you, 7 years no ciggs due to vaping.

[@tankboy1996]

It was 2010. I was a freshman in high school. One of my senior friends had a vape. I was nervous to try it but then i tried it and I was like, that was it? It tastes good. The flavor was unicorn blood. I was never able to find it again. But back to my main point. I smoke cigs now but I didnt start until I was in college for a year. VAPING doesnt lead to cigarette smoking. I chose to pick up that cig and it had nothing to do with VAPING. I was going through a bad break up. But I was 19 also which is over the legal age to purchase cigs. I still smoke cigs when I dont have juice or a coil for my vape. I can smoke anywhere from half to a full pack a day easy. And I probably fill my tank 3-4 times a day. And I prefer to vape because my lungs dont feel like their dying. I feel like vaping actually opens my lungs. Which is actually does. That why its bad to smoke a cig and then vape or vice versa because cigs close your lungs and vape opens them

[@allenarisue7073]

We need more people like this speaking the truth. Let's hear the truth!

[@JJ-gk5tn]

PLEASE SPREAD THIS VAPING IS WAY HEALTHIER THEN SMOKING

[@Ardante11]

Safer alternative, however too much of anything is bad for you. A person who smoked a pack a day vs a person who tokes the vape 3-4 times per hour. I think they’re in the same boat at the end of the day. But it’s too early to know.

[@digxfyg5333]

John Stossel you are the voice of reason!

[@BlueeEyesWhiteDragon]

This deserves more views

[@thugmrs02]

*You can buy juice without the nicotine!!* 😊

[@jonny9988]

@408 trz seeing that this was a month ago it wasn't about that topic lmao

[@jeffiscondi5161]

They ban vape products because of the fake thc carts

[@matrixman8582]

I'm 17 and I need a license to buy vape pens. What's next, a license to buy a damn iced coffee!?

[@shipwreck9146]

So... the news hates vaping... I guess I'll start vaping then.

[@MrBrelindm]

Enterprising entrepreneurialism is what could be behind the youth vaping explosion. Allow me to explain. I had a friend who passed away two years ago. Before he left us, he told us about one of his 14 year old nephews who was ordering Juul pods in bulk online from the manufacturer and reselling them to his fellow students at Walled Lake Middle School (in Commerce, Michigan) and he's making an average profit of $1,200 per week! If he's half as smart about what to do with his current money as he is with his vape business, this kid is already set for life! We definitely SHOULD be encouraging this kind of entrepreneurial thinking in our youth and stop selling them on the "trading your time for money" paradigm. Time is more precious than all of the gold and silver in the world. Why would anyone want to barter it away slaving for someone else for years on end? The vaping bans that started with Michigan are horribly misguided. ALL of the vaping illnesses and deaths so far have been attributable to illicit marijuana vape cartridges or pods. None have been caused by flavored nicotine vaping products manufactured by legitimate manufacturers! Vaping bans are short sighted, and result from only a cursory gathering of the facts. Ruling in such a way is a product of myopic worldviews. These vaping bans have put thousands of hard working people out of work (kind of like Trump's trade war tariff tirade has). And then there's their specious argument that candy flavored vapes are exclusively marketed towards youth (because we all know that adults have no taste buds). That last parentheses was a literal eye roll. It had to be an adult that first mashed together chicken and waffles for God's sake! What kid would've ever dreamt that up? No, flavors are the entire business model of the vaping industry and banning flavored nicotine vaping products is killing an entire industry that is bettering health outcomes. Is Trump's ethical and scientific rot infecting all of our society now?

[@hakachimizaruyo5171]

What?! She sayd that nicotine is on same level as coffein? Nicotine is far much toxic than coffein

[@liajohnson685]

I am 50 yrs old I started smoking cigarettes at the age of 14. I started choking and gagging real bad everyday and especially when I slept. I went to my fist lung specialist and he told me 20 % of my lung is destroyed and that right at that secound I need to stop smoking nowwwww. Doctor told me he wants me to start vaping I had really no knowledge of vaping. But I started vaping and a year later today. I feel completely different my lungs feels way stronger and I feel so much more healthier WOW WHAT AN AMAZING difference AND VAPING LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE.

[@jewelk4986]

What vaping product help you quit smoking?

[@ShaneTurbo86]

Thanks for making this video. The government has really been good at spreading misinformation

[@4play49]

@Crosshair died from black market THC CARTRIDGES do some research instead of believing mass media

[@roygodine37]

I’ve been vaping for three months now and have not even thought of having a cigarette. And I feel 95% better every day. #vape #vapingsavedmylife

[@nicolasgomez5207]

Snus for the win

[@1911dawg]

Instead of teaching people not to vape, teach kids not to smoke in general.

[@The_Minds_Butterfly]

Or rather teach them about the potential consequences of it.

[@CosmicDuskWolf]

It's great to see more research that has been done about this. I find myself though I don't wanna inhale anything with nicotine that I end up smoking when I run out of ejuice.

[@adelaidemarie]

Has Anyone Ever switched from vaping to smoking? I think Not.

[@drewfreed4636]

I've yet to hear of even one person who has. But I only talk to about 30 to 40 other vapers a week. So what would I know.

[@maxterchefe]

I did i didnt like how the vape felt but i liked the nicotine

[@adelaidemarie]

Maxterchief but you Liked how the smoke felt?

[@maxterchefe]

@@adelaidemarie yeah better then vaping, also vaping was more of a hassle with changing coils and changing juices, getting sick of the flavor. Im not saying people should do either but going to a gas station and buying cigarettes was easier then finging a vape store

[@adelaidemarie]

Maxterchief I think you just saying this. nothing is making sense. You Sound like your from Winston who Tried to Tell Us Winston taste good like a cigarette Should. They Knew flavors would make a big difference.

[@puddintayne9254]

I quit smoking 9 years ago. And I can tell you that the chemical smell from cigarette smoke is getting worse. But I am not advocating banning anything. But I can ban it from my own home.

[@rrclan4812]

Just smoke weed💀

[@vance7354]

One thing to Correct, Those batteries exploding were all from Mechanical Devices that were either Improperly build or were continuously firing because they were in a pocket. People building way to low ohm coils that were drawing way more amperage than the battery could safely handle Or Firing way to long stressing the battery to the point of thermal runaway.

[@ApologeticsBenJoiner]

Smartphones are the new cigarettes. Just take one from a kid for an entire minute and see what happens.

[@angelica_29394]

Ben Joiner No it isn’t.

[@ApologeticsBenJoiner]

@GlitterHorses Sorry I wasn't clear. I teach church classes with teens. It's a rule that phones have to be put in a basket at the start of class in the middle of the table. Even if it's for 30min, they freak.

[@beelal6407]

@@ApologeticsBenJoiner you're right but the addictions of phones come from a lack of time for the parents to be with and discipline their children, so they just give them a phone to keep them occupied.

[@ApologeticsBenJoiner]

@@beelal6407 the thing to do would be make enough money where neither parent ever has to go to work :)

[@DungTran-ve2gu]

Who's paying the hospital bill? You have the right to take the risk with your life. Doesn't mean you put other lives at risk to rescue you.

[@mattfoley6082]

Thank you! All these vaping and smoking idiots say they want individual choice but when it comes time for health care they want the rest of us to foot the bill with our premiums.

[@noControl556]

I'm not saying anything should be banned, but it is insane that the FDA wants to ban the flavoring, but not the addictive poison.

[@SamDunham]

Didn't watch the video, did you...

[@Stanton_High]

noControl they cant. The opposition to vaping and support of cigs is an insane story. Starts with taxes, the gov sold bonds on future tax revenue and vaping destroyed the projected models. There is ALOT of debt due soon and there is no way raise enough money for it with current taxes and rates. Going to be very bad when it hits. Next, big pharma. Quit smoking aids are a HUGE market and considering the low sucess rates, its a revolving cash grab. Even further, big tobacco, vaping has destroyed thier market, and they are not happy. I feel the juul was made to get vaping banned just to keep smokers smoking. Crazy opposition.

[@noControl556]

@@SamDunham yes and I am making a comment about recent news

[@noControl556]

@@Stanton_High doesn't big tobacco still make the nicotine?

[@Stanton_High]

noControl yes and no. The tobacco/nic market is a strange one, but definitely not a monopoly. Big tobacco is really only a problem because of the deaths they cause. If vaping triggers them to abandon traditional coffin nails, thats a win for me.

[@drippedoutnick5053]

We need to spread information like this while we still can!!

[@legionjames1822]

The state will never be able to put this cat back in the bag. Nor should they concern themselves whatsoever. Its a hot wire. Thats how you make vape. The internet makes vapeing utensils ultimately available no matter what "they" say. It over.

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Stay away from all drugs including alcohol.

[@aogarcia1989]

Well done, Stossel!

[@elonmusk452]

I don’t want to argue, but ignoring the chemicals, people who vape can usually run a mile and not die.

[@EricSooSoonTiong]

When parents start taking up vaping, their children will stop vaping. So, take up vaping until your child stops vaping 👍. Better still, vape in front of their friends

[@Dude_Slick]

The Propylene Glycol which bases most E-juice, is what hospitals have used for decades in vaporizers/nebulizers to treat patients with asthma, bronchitis, and other respiratory conditions. Some even have scrubbers in their H-VAC systems using PG to clean the air.

[@fuzzology]

But what about a life long smoker living a decent life to a grand old age? Life is a gamble... stop waving odds around.

[@stevenfaults4160]

Just as the US is beginning to legalize marijuana they decide to make it illegal to by "Fruity Pebbles" vape juice! You can't make this stuff up, it's actually happening! What a Country SMH

[@therambler3713]

This video is very misleading and manipulative. You're trying to set a very nonchalant tone about the risks of e-cigs while admitting very reluctantly that the verdict isn't entirely out yet. You also sneak some factually incorrect incorrect information like "its nothing but flavoring", or "nicotine isn't that bad". Unsurprisingly you chose not to interview a doctor because they would never encourage kids to put highly ambiguous substances into their body for fun.

[@ouroboros5224]

Your right doctors would never encourage kids to do so. I don't believe I heard a single person suggest that doctor or no. But there are several medical organizations around the world that agree vaping is AT LEAST 95% less harmful than smoking. Kids shouldn't be smoking cannabis but if I ever need cannabis all I have to do is go to the high school and throw a 5$ bill in any direction and I'll hit 10 kids that can sell to me or know someone who can. Your never going to stop kids from making bad decisions. Trying to prevent kids from doing so should never be used as an excuse for allowing thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of smokers to remain ignorant of a alternative method for nicotine delivery. The gum and the patch have about 7 to 8% success rate to help people quit. Vaping has approximately 70-80% success rate of getting people off tobacco. Many people quit after vaping for awhile to.

[@SammyNeverEver]

Consider the following: Maybe keep your noxious fumes inside your house?

[@mrcody333cam]

Imagine how many lives might be saved if vaping were acceptable as a means to quit combustible tobacco. Pharmaceutical companies prefer the official methods of quitting, until you go back to smoking cigarettes and need their drugs again, which have a ridiculously high rate of failure.

[@jamesdalesio3243]

We are in a free country aren't we? Why are adult vapers being punished this way?

[@Dude_Slick]

I was at 2 to 2 1/2 packs a day by the end of nearly 40 years of smoking. It got to a point where it hurt my chest to force down that last (legal) smoke before bed. I tried everything to quit, over a good 20 years, to no avail. I finally found vaping, and it replaced smoking for 6 or 8 months. Haven't had a cigarette in over 5 years, and haven't vaped in 4 years. I don't miss smoking in the slightest. I miss vaping though, and would have no problem dragging hit of vape if offered. I have ZERO doubt that vaping saved my life.

[@araashmehta5591]

'i love some of those bad things' in the end made my day 😂

[@JAMEZANDRADE]

God Bless this woman

[@premiummunitions]

If a kid tries a cigarette after already trying vaping, he/she will most definitely stick to vaping instead. Vaping is not a gateway to cigarettes. I can attest to this, because I love smoking, but vaping knocks smoking out of the park. I have done both and will vape any day over smoking a cigarette.

[@icedice6393]

My vaporizer gets here Friday. Been smoking 11 years (im 25). I've committed to quit smoking when it gets here. The price of cigarettes where I live is almost $10 a pack I can't afford it anymore.

[@paulpower7018]

14$ in Chicago ! Solo ban vaping !

[@bernardcernea6792]

They are less harmful, but they are still considerably harmful. And the fact they are known to be less novice makes people less cautious to try them.