With more than 500 cases of this mysterious lung illness from vaping, the question over
the proposed vaping ban is what's, where's that leading us?
Where is the vaping ban?
And again, every time we do a vaping story, they hate to say this, but I swear to God
there is a vaping cult out there as this, it's the craziest thing I've ever seen.
When we talk about vaping, even though we talk about it's, you know, you got, you got
problems with THC, you got problems with E acetate, you've got all, you got problems
with heavy metals, you got problems with...
Pesticides.
Yeah.
And it, when you talk about it, this cult mentality says, oh, we can't talk about that
because it's safer than tobacco.
Okay, let's say it's safer than tobacco.
500,000 people die every year because of tobacco.
It doesn't move me to say it's a little bit safer.
What's your take?
I think the vaping ban is a bad idea and we look, we know, you know, I know everybody
knows that, yes, the vaping companies are marketing these flavored products that they're
trying to ban.
They're marketing them to children.
There is no question about that and something should be done about that, but outright banning
these things is an absolutely bad move.
It's addressing a problem that's not related to the actual problem.
The problem is you have hundreds of people getting ill.
We don't know why.
Nine people are dead.
And we don't know.
We don't know why.
Right.
That's the point.
Because there's no regulations.
That's the problem.
There's no regulations in this industry whatsoever.
We don't know what people are putting in here.
The FDA does not have any kind of set standards as to what can go in a vape.
Not to mention the little vape shops that pop up on the corners, they're putting, God
knows what in there because nobody's looking over their shoulders.
Is this just another FDA disaster?
Absolutely.
Okay.
We got, you got an, you've got an organization that is completely dysfunctional.
If you believe the FDA is there to protect you, you are in la la land.
So the FDA watches this develop.
Even in the early times, people are saying, look, there's no regulations.
People can put whatever they want in here.
They can have whatever device they want to deliver it.
It can be something that's leeching lead into the human body, leaching pesticides into the
human body.
It's releasing E acetate in the human body.
All these things.
Now I'm not suggesting, you know, we handled the tobacco litigation and the, we, we launched
that case right at this law firm years ago and we saw all the documents and I can tell
you this stuff that's in tobacco is a lot worse than this.
No question about it.
But don't you get to the point where you want to say, look, yeah, we get that it's a way
for people to stop smoking, but we have to at least objectively talk about it.
And the FDA has to regulate these mom and pop organizations that are making the delivery
system, the pen.
Yeah.
They need to regulate every part of it.
Well, and people need to understand too, anytime you're inhaling something into your lungs,
don't you want know what's in that?
I mean, rather than take some guy behind the counter, his word for it that, oh, no, no,
no.
I've just mixed up this fresh batch of it.
No, that that's what people are getting sick from.
That's why this all happens suddenly.
That's why people are dying.
There's obviously a bad batch of something out there in this country killing people.
Let, let me tell you where this case goes.
This is my prediction.
In a couple of weeks we'll be in Las Vegas where we have our meeting of lawyers that
handle complex cases and what we'll be talking about is this isn't a case that can be solved
in one federal court.
Okay.
May be brought in one federal court, but there's so many, there's so many avenues to go after
these companies.
Take for example the, the pen itself, it's got all these component parts.
Each one of those component parts are made in different States.
You have so many components to it that you can, you can almost pick where you want to
bring the case.
And so because of that you're going to have these companies that are mom and pop organizations,
basically, hugely under financed that are going to go under.
Even the big companies are going to go under.
And what we're going to find is when all the smoke clears, we're going to see most of this
was financed by big tobacco.
So we've come a full circle, haven't we?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Thanks for joining me.
Thank you.