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

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

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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!

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.