Not true. People in Washington smoking legal THC vapes are getting sick.

Ok, but as someone who works in pharma, specifically in the drug development side of things, this is a pretty standard response to unexplained deaths and serious adverse events directly linked to a product. Just because vaping is cool* doesn’t mean that industry caution should be thrown out of the window at the…

Also, I have always been stymied by the term “vape liquid”. Putting liquid in your lungs is not ideal. We go out of our way to avoid it normally. 

Amazing that you don't see the irony in your comment.

Vaping uses higher levels of nicotine than in a normal cigarette. It’s easier to use it more frequently and every time they do because they are now HIGHLY ADDICTED TO NICOTINE, they are aspirating oils. I can’t believe nobody thought this would be an issue sooner. I’m sorry about your friend, I hope for his recovery! 

So, you believe whatever legal ingredients are in your vape are welcomed into your lungs? Your lungs are unharmed and getting better than what they would be  (not in comparison to effects of smoking)?

The youth tobacco use rate has been on a downward trend for decades, until e-cigarettes became common. It increased by about 40% between 2017 and 2018.

“I have been Juuling for years . . . Common sense would dictate that if vaping were so dangerous that we all need to stop vaping immediately, that people would have fallen sick before this summer.”

I respect that vapes are helpful for people quitting smoking, but maybe think about the amount of high schoolers and middle schoolers that are now addicted to nicotine?

To be fair:

Tell that to my friend’s fiancee and his family....he is sitting in the hospital right this very second with a lung infection that won’t go away and is resisting all forms of antibiotic. He didn’t vape any blackmarket THC. He has been vaping, normally and legally for about 2 years.

To this day I grimace when I hear people say “get some sleep” to pregnant people, as if sleep is cumulative. I was so sick of hearing that shit while I was pregnant that I was close to fighting people over it. (I was, clearly, not the happiest pregnant lady!)

“Maybe you don’t need to endure sleep-based torture.”. Maybe not, but pretty soon it will be inevitable. If it’s not the waking up every hour or 2 to go to the toilet, it will happen as soon as the baby is born.

I slept on my left side (with every pillow in the house supporting me), simply because it helped inhibit the lava-spitting acid reflux I would experience otherwise. (Kiddo was born with thin wisps of blonde hair - so much for that wives’ tale.)

You will spend seemingly endless nights constantly waking yourself by rolling over onto your bump! 

Three. No, four? Shit! Am I close?

And how many generations of modern humans went through pregnancy without a bed of any kind, just sleeping as well as they could on the ground?

There’s disturbing undercurrents of entitlement and boundary crossing in fangirl culture, and a play is one of the places where the performers are physically accessible.

That Broadway story is so awful, I am surprised it is being played for laughs.  I had the misfortune of seeing a person masturbate in public once and it was aggressive and invasive and not at all funny or cute.

So sad about Ric Ocasek.