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Asthma is estimated to have an annual cost in the US of $300 billion

A significant link between use of e-cigarettes and earlier onset of asthma has been discovered in US adults, according to a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open.

The study showed that adults who were asthma-free at the beginning of the study and reported use of e-cigarettes within the last 30 days increased their risk of developing asthma by 252%.

The researchers used secondary data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, a national long-term study of tobacco use and its health effects on adults and youths in the U.S.

“While previous studies have reported that e-cigarette use increases the risk of asthma, our study was the first to examine the age of asthma onset,” said the study’s lead author Professor Adriana Pérez.

The health burden of asthma in the US is massive. The condition is estimated to cost $300 billion a year alone in losses due to missed school or work, mortality and medical costs.

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Alabama and Florida have both banned the production and sale of lab-grown meat

Alabama has become the second US state to ban the production and sale of so-called “lab-grown meat.”

Alabama governor Kay Ivey signed the ban into law on May 7, less than a week after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made the Sunshine State the first state in the union to ban this novel food product.

In signing the Florida bill, Governor DeSantis said that his aim was to protect his state’s “vibrant agricultural industry” against globalist elites who want to blame traditional agriculture, especially livestock agriculture, for causing climate change.

“What we’re protecting here is the industry against acts of man, against an ideological agenda that wants to finger agriculture as the problem, that uses things like raising cattle as destroying our climate,” DeSantis said.

“This will be people who will lecture the rest of us about things like global warming, they will say you can’t drive an internal combustion vehicle, they will say agriculture is bad, meanwhile, they’re flying to Davos in their private jets.”

Arizona and Tennessee are also considering similar legislation at the present.

As well as these state-level bans, there are regulations at the federal and state level preventing manufacturers of lab-grown meat from calling their products “meat” and requiring them to label their products as “lab-grown.”

Despite its status as an official “food of the future,” lab-grown meat has been dogged by persistent scandals and suggestions that the product will fail to live up to its hype, may not be scalable and could even be significantly worse for the environment than the animal products it is intended to replace.

In February, a devastating New York Times guest essay called lab-grown meat “The Revolution That Died on Its Way to Dinner.”

“Interviews with almost 60 industry investors and insiders, including many who have been employed by or been part of the leadership teams of these companies, reveal a litany of squandered resources, broken promises and unproven science,” author Joe Fassler wrote.  

“Founders, hemmed in by their own unrealistic proclamations, cut corners, such as using ingredients derived from slaughtered animals. Investors, swept up in the excitement of the moment, wrote check after check despite significant technological obstacles. Costs refused to enter the realm of plausible as launch targets came and went. All the while, nobody could achieve anything close to meaningful scale. And yet companies rushed to build expensive facilities and pushed scientists to exceed what was possible, creating the illusion of a thrilling race to market.”

In response to news of the Alabama bill passing into law, Upside Foods, one of just two companies to received FDA and USDA approval to sell lab-grown meat in the US, started a change.org petition to urge consumers to tell politicians to “stop policing” the foods they eat.

“Legislation that bans cultivated meat is a reckless move that ignores food safety experts and science, stifles consumer choice, and hinders American innovation,” said Sean Edgett, chief legal officer of Upside Foods, in a statement.

“Major meat companies have invested in cultivated meat to enhance supply chain resilience and meet rising global demand for meat. We should be embracing innovation for a better food future.”

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Pope Francis has called on the Biden regime to keep the US southern border with Mexico “wide open” because “it’s the Christian thing to do”. In an discussion with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, the Pontiff sat […]

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Actor Ncuti Gatwa says he blames ‘white supremacists’ for the terrible audience ratings of latest series of Dr. Who, which has the lowest viewing figures in the show’s history. According to Gatwa, the script and […]

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Illegal-immigrant families are being housed with sex offenders in multiple locations across the state

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities has been housing immigrant families with children in facilities that either employ or house sex offenders, according to an investigation by The Boston Globe.

Sex offenders convicted of a range of crimes from child rape to possession of child pornography were housed or working in five hotels that are used to house illegal immigrants and their families, including children.

One of the hotels includes the Comfort Inn in Rockland, where a 26-year-old man allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl, in March. Both were Haitian immigrants.

At the time of the rape, Massachusetts governor Maura Healey reassured the public that all migrants were being screened for criminal records.

The Globe found no evidence that any of the residents of the hotels were told they were sharing their new home with sex offenders.

For example, The Globe noted that there was no public information on display at the Northborough Econo Lodge “alerting guests to the presence of a Level 3 sex offender who was convicted in 1990 in Houston of rape of a child with force.”

In a statement to The Globe, a spokesperson for the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities said, “The safety and wellbeing of the 7,500 families in Emergency Assistance shelter is a priority for our administration.

“We will continue to take all possible steps to ensure the safety of EA residents and carefully review any situation that comes before us to act quickly to protect families.”

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Smart water meters must be made compulsory in all UK households to protect against climate change according to The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) The government agency is urging ministers to ramp up the roll out […]

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