thepianistfroggollum

Telling someone to fuck off isn't flying off the handle.

It's been a minute, but I think some federal agency made a rule about it a few years back.

That's disingenuous. Vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking. To say that the level of harm is anywhere close is a straight up lie.

It's also not a tobacco product. You wouldn't call green tea a coffee product because coffee has caffeine in it. There are absolutely companies extracting nicotine from other sources or synthesizing it.

Re-read what I said. I said physically addictive, not mentally.

I wouldn't trust that meta analysis. It specifically states in the methodology that studies that mentioned smoking or cigarettes were excluded, but several studies that I spot checked were about smoking and cigarettes.

IQOS is still not nicotine on its own, and if the symptoms you described were while you were using the IQOS, it sounds like a nicotine overdose.

Re-read the paragraph you just quoted. I clearly specified that the statement was about nicotine only, not cigarettes.

Cigarette smoke contains over 9000 chemicals besides nicotine, some of which are added specifically to increase the addictive properties.

I also said physically addictive, not mentally addictive.

I'm not sure why people are expecting Microsoft to act altruistically in this merger. They're a publicly traded company that exists to create profit for their shareholders, and they're not going to do a single thing that won't increase their profits.

Mergers like this are always bad for the consumer, and the FTC is betraying the citizens by letting it happen.

Is it irresponsibility if they did it specifically to weaken the IRS so they and their buddies can continue to violate federal laws?

I think God just missed. Shame, really.

Blame the FDA for killing open systems that are actually reusable.