Scientific American: Nicotine Analogs Pose Possible Health Risks Yet Evade Regulation
The company Charlie’s Holdings, Inc. launched the new line of vaping products called Spree Bar which contain Metatine, a trademarked name for its synthetic nicotine analog, 6-methylnicotine. Because of the narrow definition of nicotine in U.S. law, the addition of one chemical structure called a methyl group allows the company to market Metatine as indistinguishable from traditional vaping products’ nicotine while also avoiding any regulatory scrutiny. Other companies are doing the same with similar nicotine analogs in vaping liquids and oral pouches.
“As I see it, this is just the latest chapter in the industry’s very long and nefarious history of evading or trying to evade laws that were enacted and intended to protect the health and well-being of not only adults but children in the United States,” says Lauren Kass Lempert, a public health researcher at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco.
NYT: Trump Says He Had a Great Debate. His Allies Privately Say Otherwise.
President Donald J. Trump went into sales-pitch mode immediately after Tuesday night’s debate, walking into the spin room to extol his own performance, crowing on Fox News and going on a late-night posting spree to hype unscientific online polls that he said showed he had crushed Vice President Kamala Harris.
“That was my best Debate, EVER, especially since it was THREE ON ONE!” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, minutes after the debate ended, referring to the two ABC News moderators.
Mr. Trump was insisting the same things privately to advisers and allies in the hours after the debate, according to three people with direct knowledge who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private conversations. Mr. Trump appeared jubilant, as if he truly believed what he was telling them, the three people said.
But Mr. Trump’s actions after the debate told another story.
Kingstonist: ‘No Respite’: hospital unions' report says without change ‘It’s going to get worse’
A new report finds that Ontario needs five times more hospital beds than the provincial government has planned — and that the province faces a 13,800-bed shortfall by 2032.
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He said the PCs' central election promise in 2018 “was that they would end hallway health care, and instead it’s doubled… We’re close to 2,000 patients being treated in unconventional hospital spaces.” Also, Allan said, “there are long waits to get surgeries. There are also very high bed occupancy levels, which are unsafe and help drive that emergency room crisis because that’s where they back up” — in other words, a bottleneck occurs when no beds are available in the hospital to allow emergency room patients who need admission to actually be admitted.
WashPo: Officer who ignored NYPD’s ‘courtesy cards’ receives $175K settlement
In fact, all three of them had the cards issued by the New York Police Department’s biggest union to officers who then give them to family, friends and anyone else they want to be able to get out of low-level encounters with law enforcement, Bianchi told The Washington Post.
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Last Updated: 11.Sep.2024 23:24 EDT
