ABSTRACT
Experimentation with life and health continues unabated. It is as if a superchief of social experiments, a person of unlimited curiosity, undertook to investigate the effects of all kinds of products and activities in order simply to satisfy her curiosity. A very different experiment was going on in a much more limited physical environment. This was the use of e-cigarettes, one of several nicotine delivery devices meant to help cut down on smoking. Researchers found that there was evidence that "some vaporizing systems exposed users to heavy metals" and that vaporizing liquids at high temperatures "could expose users to high levels of formalde-hyde, a known carcinogen." A crucial theme runs through the large environment of fracking, the mini-environments of e-cigarettes and vape shops, and a wide range of consumer products in which fluorotechnology is embedded.
