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[-] int_not_found@feddit.org 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

WTF is this article? It borders on medical misinformation. Unless you’re vaping uranium rods straight from a reactor, you don’t develop cancer in such a short timeframe from a single definit cause.

She added that her doctors cannot definitively say what led to her cancer, but they did tell her that vaping didn’t help.

This is the only medically relevant information here.

Cancer is, to a large extent, a roll of the dice. Your body produces potentially cancerous cells every day. Every day, you’re rolling the dice on whether such a cell develops into something serious. You can increase or decrease your chances somewhat, but in the end, there’s always an element of chance.

This woman had terrible luck. That’s tragic. But people often struggle to accept that sometimes you’re just unlucky. That’s a frightening thought, so they try to identify decisions that led to that outcome.

This article reads like the expression of someone trying to regain a sense of control by pinpointing a cause for where they are now, facing a slow and agonizing death. Publishing it like this feels borderline unethical.

[-] tankfox@bookwyr.me 1 points 2 weeks ago

This article is paid for by the tobacco industry. Since the death of journalism most 'news' has become propaganda because that's the only way to keep the lights on. People used to pay a large amount of inflation adjusted money for news to be delivered and now news is often only paid for when someone pays to push it upon a target audience.

[-] Cypher@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of people are going to learn the hard way that vaping isn’t safe, as you have zero clue what actually goes into the vape fluid.

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