Sanders calls for vaping industry shutdown, then walks it back

[RandySF]

GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa — For a moment — before his campaign almost immediately walked it back — Bernie Sanders appeared to call Saturday for the vaping industry to be “shut down.”

Responding to a question about the youth vaping epidemic at a town hall meeting here, the Vermont senator said, “The answer is, I think we shut down the industry if they’re causing addiction and if the evidence is that people are getting sick as a result or inhaling a lot of bad stuff.”

Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ longtime political adviser, told POLITICO following the town hall that Sanders was “certainly not talking about shutting down the industry tomorrow.” He said Sanders wants more study and regulation of the industry to ensure that it is safe and that “the federal government needs to act strongly in those areas.”

Still, Sanders’ strident rhetoric was sure to both please many public health advocates and further infuriate corporate America.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/01/04/bernie-sanders-vaping-shutdown-093780

[msongs]

1. same bernie sanders who will legalize cannabis by executive order? stuff most ppl

will inhale/smoke

[The Valley Below]

4. Vape

[UniteFightBack]

10. +1000 nt

[George II]

2. So Mr. Weaver, why didn't Sanders say that himself? If Biden did that it would be called a "gaffe"!

[RandySF]

3. I think it's a good idea.

I don't know why Weaver intervened.

[Me.]

5. Yes, No, Maybe?

[sheshe2]

6. He is going to shut down the tobacco industry as well, correct?

It is an epidemic.

[jmowreader]

7. The "bad stuff" was Vitamin E acetate in illegal hash oil cartridges

Another DUer tipped us all off to news about the product Honey Cut, which was invented to enable dope dealers to undetectably rip off the public. It contained Vitamin E acetate, which comes with an MSDS that says in no uncertain terms "do not inhale this." (Naturally, they sold it for that very purpose.) The chemicals used to make nicotine vapes, as far as we know, are not killing people the way Vitamin E oil does.

[mr_lebowski]

9. Exactly. I was saying the same thing pretty much all along (nt)

[UniteFightBack]

11. No nicotine vapes are not killing people, if so please enlighten me to just one case. nt

[UniteFightBack]

12. People all over the place, people who should KNOW BETTER are conflating the fuck out of it. nt

[David__77]

8. Disagree with his position on that.

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