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<\/p>\nRUSH: Coming up on the program today, I quite accidentally… The TV is on here, but the audio is never on. My head is always buried in my own show prep and the instruments I use, primarily a laptop computer. But occasionally, I\u2019ll glance over at the phone. But I can\u2019t help it; sometimes I look up. I looked up, and on Fox they were doing a segment on the dangers of vaping, e-cigarettes. I\u2019m sure you\u2019re all… Well, I don\u2019t know. Maybe you\u2019re not all aware.<\/p>\n
But there is a major — and it\u2019s not new. It\u2019s a major effort to eliminate vaping, to wipe it out, to cancel it, to get rid of it, to make it illegal, to make it impossible, what have you. And as a result, there\u2019s all kinds of disinformation about it. Now, I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand me here. I\u2019m not gonna make the case for it. But what I saw on Fox today is they had some young Millennial woman on there as an authority who made it clear she doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n
Now, my point here is not to be critical of her. I mean, you\u2019re a young person. They ask you to come on TV. You\u2019re gonna go. If they\u2019re gonna ask you to come on TV as an expert on something, you\u2019re gonna go. TV is a gigantic lure. Well, the problem is that most people watching TV think that guests are there because they are experts. It\u2019s like when I was growing up, before I knew the ways of the world. You know, I\u2019d read the newspaper, and there was some profile on a person. It could have been a scientist, could have been a doctor or an actor, anybody.<\/p>\n
Well, little old naive me! I always believed those profiles happened because the person was such a success and so big and so renowned and so well known that the media found them and did stories on them because they had earned it, or they were good. (laughing) I found out later, that\u2019s not how those things happen. All these people have PR agents or other kinds of agents. They\u2019re constantly pitching the Drive-By Media to do a profile or a puff piece on person X.<\/p>\n
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Mostly, it\u2019s always that. Very rarely is somebody in the media — newspaper, magazine, online, wherever — profiled because it\u2019s genuinely organic. It\u2019s all the result of a campaign to get somebody publicity. And usually the person who\u2019s being written about is paying people as agents and PR people to go out and secure these kinds of media stories. But I didn\u2019t know that growing up. I was like everybody else, I thought it was all aboveboard, legitimate, honest.<\/p>\n
I thought if somebody was being profiled — or destroyed. If somebody was being creamed in a newspaper story, I thought, “They deserve it, they must be really bad.” This is how most people look at it growing up, and most people don\u2019t grow out of it. They think of it throughout their lives that way. So you watch, you turn on TV, and you see somebody opining on something. “Oh, this must be an expert. Otherwise, they wouldn\u2019t be on TV.<\/p>\n
“That network wouldn\u2019t put just anybody on.” People don\u2019t know. That\u2019s what they think. Well, I\u2019m sorry, it doesn\u2019t work that way. Because everybody today needs a cause, and especially Millennials. Millennials are so in debt. Did you see that story yesterday, Snerdley? The average Millennial is in debt to something like… What was it? Did I see $79,000 or $39,000 is the average? When you take Millennials\u2019 debt total and then average it out with all the Millennials, it\u2019s an incredibly high number.<\/p>\n
So they\u2019re in debt, and they need a cause. They need meaning in their lives. They\u2019re looking for ways to matter; so here comes vaping, and we\u2019ve had stories lately that a whole bunch of people have died mysteriously after smoking e-cigarettes and so forth. So there\u2019s a big move to shut down e-cigarettes and vaping in general, and these people just become experts because they… (interruption) It\u2019s $28,000 is the average per-person Millennial debt.<\/p>\n
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Does that count student loan debt? (interruption) We don\u2019t know. Even if it doesn\u2019t or even if it does, it\u2019s still a large number. It\u2019s disconcerting. It is just… (interruption) Personal debt, yeah, but… (interruption) Well, student loan debt is personal. So I just wonder if it\u2019s a factor in it because some people have that much student loan and more. At any rate, this young woman that was talking about vaping, I can tell you she did not know what she was talking about.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not here to criticize her. That\u2019s not the point. But she was on TV as an expert, as an authority, and she\u2019s trying to make sure that vaping is shut down \u2019cause it\u2019s bad, \u2019cause it\u2019s killing people, it\u2019s worse than cigarettes — and it isn\u2019t. Folks, it\u2019s nowhere near as bad as cigarettes. It\u2019s bad. I mean, there\u2019s nothing to recommend it. I wouldn\u2019t recommend anybody do it, other than one circumstance.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, I mentioned earlier I was watching Fox News today in the middle of the doing show prep. I don\u2019t have the audio on \u2019cause it\u2019s distracting. Unless I\u2019m watching TV, I never have the audio on. Because of my hearing problems, all audio is noise. It\u2019s just distracting, upsetting noise. Unless I\u2019m looking at it, I don\u2019t know what it is. I have to be looking at somebody speaking to be able to comprehend what they\u2019re saying, so I have it off. It\u2019s always on mute.<\/p>\n
Occasionally when I look up and see something, “Oh!” I see what they\u2019re talking about and I turn on the audio and listen. And I did that today. And they were doing a segment on the Fox News Channel. Bill Hemmer was hosting it on vaping, and the horrors and the evils of vaping e-cigarettes. And there was a guest, a young woman. I\u2019m not gonna mention her name because the point of this is not to be critical of her. I\u2019m trying to protect her because she didn\u2019t know what she was talking about. Yet there she was on TV.<\/p>\n
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And when you go on TV, when they bring you on as a guest, you automatically have attached to you the idea that you\u2019re an expert, otherwise why are you there? I mean, they could just pull off some anonymous person from Twitter if they wanted to. But no, you figure if you\u2019re watching TV and there\u2019s a guest that is talking about a topic or a subject, you assume the guest is an authority and an expert.<\/p>\n
That wasn\u2019t the case today. And when I saw this, some stuff here is just so incorrect that it needs to be corrected. So I fired off Bill Hemmer a note. I said, \u201cBill, Bill\u2026\u201d And I laid out the details, just so that he could be informed. Now, the reason I know about this is because I have been a vaper. I have vaped. And the staff in there will remember those days. And I\u2019ll tell you how it happened.<\/p>\n
A friend of mine, Mr. Hartley, Mr. Hawaii, his daughter got married at one of their palatial, expansive estates in the northwestern United States. And all of us were there, the golf buddies were all there. And it was a young person\u2019s event. It was a wedding. And so we all got together and said, \u201cYou know what? We need to do something to clean up our lives. We need to get rid of some of our vices.\u201d<\/p>\n
So everybody said, \u201cOkay I\u2019m gonna give up something.\u201d Some guy said, \u201cI\u2019m gonna give up drinking.\u201d Some guy said, \u201cI\u2019m gonna give up this\u2026\u201d I said, \u201cYou know what? I\u2019m gonna give up tobacco.\u201d \u201cYou are?\u201d I said, \u201cYep! If you guys are serious about this, I will give up tobacco. I will shelve the cigars.\u201d But I had a secret. I had a way that it was not going to be difficult at all to do because I was not gonna give up nicotine.<\/p>\n
Nicotine is the most addictive drug on earth. Now, a lot of you people, “No, Rush, no. It\u2019s crystal meth. It\u2019s fentanyl. It\u2019s heroin.” No, it isn\u2019t. Those are very, very, very bad, but they\u2019re not the most addictive. Nicotine is. And, by the way, folks, nothing to recommend fentanyl. Fentanyl is a very worthwhile drug for end-of-life cancer patients who are in unsurvivable, excruciating pain.<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re doing to fentanyl on TV in these crime shows, you cannot die from inhaling a speck of it. You can\u2019t! It can\u2019t kill you that way. They\u2019re just really taking liberty. But that\u2019s another thing entirely. Why is nicotine the most addictive drug on earth? It\u2019s very simple. The first time anybody has an experience, everybody\u2019s first experience with nicotine is miserable.<\/p>\n
Have you ever seen somebody, Rachel, take their first puff of a cigarette? What do they do? They start coughing. They start gagging. Some people start throwing up. They immediately apologize to themselves, they all say, \u201cI\u2019m never doing it again, my God, what am I thinking?\u201d They run to the toilet, \u201cGet those away from me.\u201d And within minutes they\u2019re lighting up their second one.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Rush-Images-CIGAR-B-1.png\")
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Have you ever noticed? The definition here of the most addictive drug — any drug that you have a great experience with, \u201cOh, yeah, give me more.\u201d But nicotine? Everybody\u2019s first experience with it is disaster! And yet everybody goes back within minutes. The minute the nausea ends, the minute the coughing spasm ends, most people are right back at it.<\/p>\n
Well, nicotine is what\u2019s in e-cigarettes. But there aren\u2019t any carcinogens in e-cigarettes. The carcinogen in a cigarette\u2019s the tobacco, not the nicotine. The nicotine is the addicting ingredient that keeps you using the carcinogen, the tobacco. Nicotine by itself is horribly addictive. But it does not cause cancer. So the reason e-cigarettes came along in the first place was to help people kick cigarettes, not nicotine.<\/p>\n
It was to enable people to be able to keep their nicotine fix but not put carcinogens and poisons in their system. E-cigarettes are just water vapor. Some manufacturers flavor it like bubble gum, cherry, pina colada, they do all kinds of tricks with it, but it\u2019s just water vapored nicotine. The original purpose of them was to help people quit tobacco, not to quit smoking, but to quick tobacco. Now, there\u2019s a problem with them above and beyond that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. So I\u2019m watching this segment on vaping, and of course you\u2019ve seen the stories this week that there are more and more people dying mysterious deaths. Nobody knows why. It\u2019s very curious. Young people picking this practice up and they\u2019re going nuts and going crazy with it.<\/p>\n
The news stories say people are being misled about what vaping is and there are all kinds of ingredients in it that are worse than cigarettes that can be killing you, and I think all of that is a stretch.<\/p>\n
Now, I haven\u2019t done this in years, so I must be honest up front. I don\u2019t know what the current status of the companies and the business, the stuff they\u2019re manufacturing is. My experience with this, as usual, you know, I was cutting edge. I was vaping before anybody knew it existed. I gave up vaping before most people knew it existed. I\u2019ll tell you why. I was gonna tell you right now.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The reason I gave it up is because you never know how much nicotine is in these things, and I guarantee you you\u2019re gonna vape more than you\u2019ll smoke cigarettes. I don\u2019t care how many cigarettes you smoke. Because there\u2019s no carcinogens in it. It\u2019s just water vapor, but you get the nicotine delivery. If you\u2019re addicted to it, you get it.<\/p>\n
The problem is blood pressure. I would go to the doctor, standard, ordinary, everyday blood pressure, I never had high blood pressure. Blood pressure would be higher than ever, doc said, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d I said, \u201cI don\u2019t know. Nothing different.\u201d The fact I was vaping never occurred to me. And then one of the people with me at one of those occasions that I was at the doctor, \u201cWell, wait a minute, you\u2019re smoking those e-cigarettes.\u201d I said, \u201cThat\u2019s right!\u201d<\/p>\n
And the doctor said, \u201cWell, that\u2019s it. All that nicotine in there is causing your blood pressure to spike.\u201d I said, \u201cOh, I had no idea nicotine did that.\u201d \u201cOh, hell, yes. It\u2019s not just that your blood vessels contract because of the carcinogens in the tobacco that cause all this cardiovascular. Nicotine can have a drastic effect, in intense quantities, in very high quantities.\u201d<\/p>\n
And one of the things about nicotine, people that make the e-cigarettes pack it in there because that\u2019s what keeps you buying it. It\u2019s what keeps you coming back. Now, when I was in the midst of this Big Tobacco was in panic over this. It was a way to get nicotine without having to smoke cigarettes, without having to get carcinogens delivered into your system.<\/p>\n
So Big Tobacco immediately began working on state legislatures to get them outlawed because they\u2019re dangerous, they pose great risks that people aren\u2019t aware of. Capitalism. There was a gigantic competitor just getting started. And then at one point Big Tobacco started buying up various e-cigarette manufacturers. There\u2019s a whole bunch of manufacturers, whole bunch of brand names. One of the biggest names out there is Juul, J-u-u-l. They\u2019re being sued left and right.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re trying to make it clear, we\u2019re not trying to sell this to people that don\u2019t do it. We\u2019re trying to sell these things to people that want to quit smoking. All it is is water vapor. That\u2019s all it is, nicotine and the water vapor. There aren\u2019t any tobacco-like carcinogens in an e-cigarette. If you could find a way to use these things moderately, they would be probably a good way to quit smoking tobacco if you inhale cigarettes.<\/p>\n
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So let\u2019s go to these two sound bites now that you know what\u2019s what. I\u2019m not gonna mention this woman\u2019s name. She\u2019s a Millennial. The point here is not to cause her any trouble. It\u2019s just an illustration of how television puts people on that really don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about in many ways. But they care. So here\u2019s the first question. \u201cWhat was your experience with vaping?\u201d<\/p>\n
GUEST: Basically, the first time I began vaping, it was about the end of 2016, beginning of 2017. I would always use a vape, but I would never use the actual Juul pod itself. I always used a strawberry vape juice and I would just fill that and just keep using that, almost like to the point when I would fall asleep at night, I would just have to keep using it because it was just so addicting.<\/p>\n
And then as time progressed I transferred into a New York school at the University of St. John\u2019s where I used my friend\u2019s Juul one night, and I just continued puffing it maybe like 20 to 30 times, just doing that in my system, you know, nothing else, and out of nowhere I just felt really hot, you know that feeling you get \u2013 you can tell you\u2019re gonna get stomach sick. And I almost couldn\u2019t even get upstairs to my room in time before I was just vomiting. And it lasted between like two and three hours.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No different than the first time you smoke a cigarette. No different. And she just kept increasing the quantities \u2019cause it was addicting. She liked it, nicotine, the most detective drug out there. Okay. So far, so good. But there\u2019s nothing in this story that is different from any other nicotine delivery, except maybe the patch, and you\u2019d have to put, you know, to equal the amount of nicotine in an e-cigarette you\u2019d have to put 25 patches on your arm. You know, nobody\u2019s gonna do that. So the next bite, \u201cYou\u2019re 21. Did you smoke regular cigarettes before this?\u201d<\/p>\n
GUEST: No. It\u2019s not a cigarette. So that\u2019s the initial thought, you know, so it couldn\u2019t be maybe worse than that. The flavors are attractive. It\u2019s a new item coming out, everyone\u2019s using it.<\/p>\n
SMITH: You saw it out there, you thought it was appealing.<\/p>\n
GUEST: I almost think that it\u2019s worse than a cigarette.<\/p>\n
SMITH: Why?<\/p>\n
GUEST: In my eyes, um, just because it\u2019s addictive and just the age group that\u2019s getting involved. Like, I\u2019ve been outside around campus and had younger people, like maybe someone age 16, come up to me with money asking, \u201cOh, will you go inside the store and buy a Juul for me and Juul pods?\u201d So there are all ways around it. I see no benefits to the product. So there\u2019s no need.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The Juul pod, that\u2019s the nicotine, that\u2019s what you put inside that gets heated up, produces the water vapor that you inhale, and that\u2019s the nicotine. And then they flavor it so that it tastes good while you\u2019re doing all of this. It\u2019s just a nicotine delivery system. To say that it\u2019s worse than cigarettes, that\u2019s a judgment call. There\u2019s no carcinogens in it unless somebody wants to try to claim that this much nicotine is a carcinogen, but nicotine isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Now, I imagine all of the do-good liberals out there are gonna say, “He doesn\u2019t even know what he\u2019s talking about.” But nicotine\u2019s not a carcinogen, folks. It isn\u2019t. Otherwise the patch, they would tell you not to use the patch, you\u2019re putting a cancer producing patch under your shirt. It\u2019s not cancerous. It\u2019s not a carcinogen. It\u2019s just addictive as heck. It\u2019s the most addictive drug on earth. Do not doubt me on this.<\/p>\n
“But, Rush, there\u2019s no mind-altering \u2013” yes, there is. It\u2019s so subtle. The subtlety of nicotine is the thing about it. It\u2019s the blood pressure spike that can be caused by that much nicotine in a concentrated dose. At least that\u2019s my personal experience with it. I would never sit here and generalize and say that my experience with it is normal and what everybody else\u2019s is gonna be. But I can tell you that it\u2019s not worse than cigarettes. But even cigarettes, how many years does it take for them to kill you, if they do? Do you realize that still has not been scientifically proven? We are much more certain of global warming than we are that cigarettes cause cancer.<\/p>\n
How many people do you know who have gotten lung cancer, never touched a cigarette? \u201cSecondhand smoke, Rush.\u201d Sorry, folks, not the answer. And how many people do you know who do smoke and have not gotten cancer? Might gotten something else. See, we\u2019re all gonna die of something. Strange as that may sound to you youngsters, we\u2019re all gonna die of something, usually due to genetics.<\/p>\n
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And so cigarettes, they take years and years and years to wipe you out. Not recommending them. Don\u2019t misunderstand. You know, I\u2019m the adult in the room. This program is where Realville is. This program is where the essence of common sense resides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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