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F.D.A. Seizes Documents From Juul Headquarters
The Food and Drug Administration conducted a surprise inspection of the headquarters of the e-cigarette maker Juul Labs last Friday, carting away more than a thousand documents it said were related to the company's sales and marketing practices.
The move, announced on Tuesday, was seen as an attempt to ratchet up pressure on the company, which controls 72 percent of the e-cigarette market in the United States and whose products have become popular in high schools. The F.D.A. said it was particularly interested in whether Juul deliberately targeted minors as consumers.
"The new and highly disturbing data we have on youth use demonstrates plainly that e-cigarettes are creating an epidemic of regular nicotine use among teens," the F.D.A. said in a statement. "It is vital that we take action to understand and address the particular appeal of, and ease of access to, these products among kids."
Previously: Tobacco Roundup (U.S. to Crack Down on Tobacco, Electronic Cigarettes)
E-Cig Maker Juul Valued at $15-16 Billion
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @03:01PM (2 children)
You see, that is not a rational decision. Rational decision is to look at a situation and decide if this is your decision or not. If not, then fighting against it will just make things worse, for you.
Secondly, this medicine does not cause diabetes "by magic". It's a side-effect, like side-effect of gaining weight, which is a side-effect of these types of medicines in general. So, if you don't want diabetes, lose weight or don't gain weight.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 04 2018, @08:41PM
The reason I'm so sternly opposed to Zyprexa is because a witch doctor spent an entire year discussing with me whether he should prescribed it. From the very start he warned me that it could cause diabetes.
You are correct in a sense, in that it is common for the mentally ill to be diabetic: many psychiatric medicines increase one's appetite, and it is very common for mental illnesses to lead one to be totally lethargic - catatonic even - to the point that I myself have on several occasions spent a couple months on the couch, never getting up other than to use the can or to eat.
But neither that lethargy nor that appetite was what causes Zyprexa's diabetes: if you take Zyprexa it will directly elevate your blood sugar. Enough of that and your cells will defend themselves by decreasing their response to Insulin, whose function is to catalyze the absorption of sugar by our cells.
Enough Insulin resistance and its _permanent_.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 04 2018, @08:49PM
"Shooting redcoats will just make things worse for New World colonists".
By beating the crap out of two men and breaking a psychiatrist's eyeglasses in two I made a statement: to forcibly inject Zyprexa is morally reprehensible.
My violent defense against Zyprexa won't all by itself lead them to stop forcing it on us, but it will contribute to that happening some fine day.
Just now I read that a whole bunch of women are blocking the streets around Portland's Federal courthouse by lying on said streets. The have a specific list of demands - stop appointing rapists to SCOTUS and the like.
"blocking traffic with their own bodies will just make things worse" because they'll all get arrested. I expect most of them will take it to the jury despite being unquestionably guilty, again just to make a point by burdening our legal system.
I'd join them but my strange reluctance ever to join anyone's protest eventually led me to conclude that Collective Action is simply _not_ the way I work, rather it is Individual Journalism: lots of folks love to hate my writing but the fact is, my essays articles rants and manifestos are wildly popular and have been for twenty years.
By hanging out on SN and Facebook for by now twenty-one hours, I've posted the rough drafts to ten or twelve essays that I will later copy down to my desktop mark up and fix up, then publish on my website. All but a few of my screeds started that way - mostly as replies to someones Series Of Tubes post.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]