CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
I had a startup in Vaping(nicotine) and am still fairly in touch with the industry. There has been no major innovation in nicotine eliquid that would cause a sudden cluster of issues. It's stayed pretty constant since 2013 with the exception of Salt Nicotine, which Pax labs has a gras study published for.<p>The majority of cases seems to be THC carts where it can be confirmed. One case was confirmed from a dispensary in Oregon. The "Dank Vapes" carts are sold on eBay/AliExpress and anyone can fill them with anything. Reading on here the VitE may have been to increase potency is not something I'm familiar with since I'm not in the TCH trade, but I do know that synthetic vitamin E is made from a petroleum product precursor, and a food grade level of purification may not mean a quality to which it should be vaporised and inhaled.<p>CDC's reaction is over the top, especially next to the FDA which is offering more precise warnings of avoiding THC carts. Be safe if you're using these thc products, especially since even larger suppliers have trouble tracking supply, bank accounts and company formation that typically cleans up quite a bit of the bad actors from an industry. Nicotine vapes have matured significantly because of this moving to clean labs and central production of the liquid.