Objective:Health: #31 - The Vaping Crisis - They're Coming For Your Vapes!

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Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC

Across the US, hundreds of people have come down with a severe and mysterious respiratory illness that seems to be linked to vaping the act of inhaling vapor produced by a vaporizer or electronic cigarette which has surged in popularity in recent years. The FDA announced a criminal probe into vaping as the number of reported cases of lung illnesses linked to the practice rose to 530. Some states and cities have already banned flavoured vape products, with Trump talking about a nation wide ban.

But are the bans necessary? Researchers have yet to figure out what about vaping is causing these issues. Vaping has been around for over a decade, yet only now are people coming down with this condition. Is this reactionary nanny-state solution really warranted?

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Reader Comments

Joan · 2019-09-21T20:30:13Z

A most interesting discussion.

Concerning flavor enhancements (I am not talking about THC, that is another are of discussion, a minefield).

I remember about flavor enhancements derived from stem cells, this is a few years back, and I can no longer find the information to back up the claim, but I remember that the flavor enhancements caused loss of capping of tellomers resulting in loss of length and unravelling.

Is this a reality, I don't know, but with the surge for the artificial flavors in foods, we have such flavors as bubble gum, cinnamon toast, pumpkin spice, sour cherry sour apple and more, mostly targeted for the younger generation

I found this from wikki most interesting

[Link]
Senomyx is an American biotechnology company working toward developing additives to amplify certain flavors and smells in foods. The company claims to have essentially "reverse engineered" the receptors in humans that react for taste and aroma, and that they are capitalizing on these discoveries to produce chemicals that will make food taste better. On 17 Sept 2018, Firmenich completed the acquisition of Senomyx. [1]

History[edit]Senomyx was founded by prominent biochemist Lubert Stryer in 1999. In May 2001, Stryer returned to his professorship at Stanford University and resigned from Senomyx, but continues to be the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board. The company developed Substance 951, a potentiator used to amplify the sweetness of sugar in food products, thereby allowing the manufacturer to reduce the amount of sugar used

.[citation needed] Senomyx develops patented flavor enhancers by using "proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems", which have been previously expressed in human cell culture, in HEK293 cells.[2]

HEK293 cells are a cell line widely used in biological and medical research, immortalised through a genetic modification removed from the original human embryonic kidney cells taken from a healthy, electively aborted human fetus in the early 1970s.[3] The receptors in the assay are used to identify flavours; they are not used as flavours themselves. No human taste receptors are used as ingredients in any flavourings. Using information from the human genome sequence, Senomyx has identified hundreds of taste receptors and currently owns 113 patents on their discoveries. Senomyx collaborates with seven of the world's largest food companies to further their research and to fund development of their technology.

Pause for thought...anyone!

Joan · 2019-09-21T20:38:56Z

Joan [Link] Telomere shortening rate predicts species life span

Telomere shortening to a critical length can trigger aging and shorter life spans in mice and humans by a mechanism that involves induction of a persistent DNA damage response at chromosome ends and loss of cellular viability. However, whether telomere length is a universal determinant of species longevity is not known. To determine whether telomere shortening can be a single parameter to predict species longevities, here we measured in parallel the telomere length of a wide variety of species (birds and mammals) with very different life spans and body sizes, including mouse ( Mus musculus ), goat ( Capra hircus ), Audouin’s gull ( Larus audouinii ), reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus ), griffon vulture ( Gyps fulvus ), bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus ), American flamingo ( Phoenicopterus ruber ), and Sumatran elephant ( Elephas maximus sumatranus ). We found that the telomere shortening rate, but not the initial telomere length alone, is a powerful predictor of species life span. These results support the notion that critical telomere shortening and the consequent onset of telomeric DNA damage and cellular senescence are a general determinant of species life span.

Just another share for my thoughts....

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-09-21T22:48:49Z

Accepting as true they numbers they are reporting - 530 people who’ve vaped have had - lung problems. First, how many of those have been long term smokers or coal miners i.e., how many had pre-existing lung conditions?

The statistical ratios show that you have a greater chance of being on a plane that is hijacked by a terrorist, that you take the plane back by yelling ‘let’s roll’, and then are knocked out of the sky by a bolt of lightning.* (Sarcasm.)

This entire 'issue' is an MSM created bunch of BS proving, once again, the statistical truisms

1) There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics;

2) Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

R.C.

*I would say by a missile launched by an unmarked F-16 flown by a Air Force National Guard Major from N.D. but I’m trying to make fun of how this statistically insignificant issue is getting the air play - hence the lightning strike.

R.C.