Kevin Caron, another ousted employee at the CDCs Office on Smoking and Health, said at least five major tobacco research projects will end unless people just independently decide in their free time that theyre going to try to work on them. Caron, whod worked with the CDC for more than a decade, was one of the researchers who discovered that it was vitamin E acetate in bootleg THC vape products that sickened thousands and killed 68 people in 2019
The tobacco-to-cannabis ratio varies but typically sits around 50/50, though some users prefer more cannabis or more tobacco depending on their tolerance and preferences
If more states boosted the minimum age for buying cigarettes, it could delay the age of first tobacco experimentation, reducing the likelihood of youth transition to regular use and increasing the likelihood of cessation if they become regular users, the CDC researchers wrote
They call it green tobacco sickness, a form of nicotine poisoning, but at the time I didnt know there was a name for the condition
