it was very conclusive and they never intended for the real cause to be discovered until after the flavored E-juice bans came down.
first they tried the "think of the children" angle by pretending that adults don't like flavor and therefor only kids would want something that tastes good.
that didn't work, so as soon as the "mysterious lung illness" appeared they tried to shove a bunch of bans through as soon as possible.
then doctors started testing lung fluid and found all of them had vitamin E acetate... the news got out, rolling stone even did an article on it, and the entire debacle was quickly hushed so they could try to salvage their flavored nicotine bans.
they reached a conclusion and as soon as that conclusion didn't fit with "nicotine vaping is causing this" they dropped the story and memoryholed it.
it was caused by black market THC carts that were made with vitamin E oil as a liquidizer which cause lipid pneumonia.
Politicians were attempting to use this "mystery lung illness" to ban vaping... it didn't work... they moved onto new propaganda.
That’s kinda the conclusion I came to but it obviously was not satisfying of an explanation.
it was very conclusive and they never intended for the real cause to be discovered until after the flavored E-juice bans came down.
first they tried the "think of the children" angle by pretending that adults don't like flavor and therefor only kids would want something that tastes good.
that didn't work, so as soon as the "mysterious lung illness" appeared they tried to shove a bunch of bans through as soon as possible.
then doctors started testing lung fluid and found all of them had vitamin E acetate... the news got out, rolling stone even did an article on it, and the entire debacle was quickly hushed so they could try to salvage their flavored nicotine bans.
I see, interesting, thanks for catching me up!