Buttchugging, move aside: The newest HORRIBLE DANGER to THE CHILDREN!

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.today.com/news/dangerous-viral-trend-threatens-teens-smoking-alcohol-6C10435401

"These videos scare the hell out of me," says Steve Pasierb, who runs the partnership at drugfree.org.

This could be even worse than when the little bastards were smoking banana peels.

This is so new that there are no hard numbers yet on how many kids have ended up in the hospital from smoking alcohol.

I CAN NAME THIS SONG IN TWO NOTES!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.today.com/news/dangerous-viral-trend-threatens-teens-smoking-alcohol-6C10435401

"These videos scare the hell out of me," says Steve Pasierb, who runs the partnership at drugfree.org.

This could be even worse than when the little bastards were smoking banana peels.

This is so new that there are no hard numbers yet on how many kids have ended up in the hospital from smoking alcohol.

I CAN NAME THIS SONG IN TWO NOTES!

OMG 

[Doktor Howl]

HOW ARE THERE ANY CHILDREN LEFT, WITH ALL THIS BUTTHASH AND ALCOHOL SMOKING?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Here's the original basis for the story that the TERRIBLE NEW THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN is based on: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/20/172488104/the-vaportini-a-cocktail-inhaled-not-stirred

[Doktor Howl]

Here's the original basis for the story that the TERRIBLE NEW THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN is based on: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/20/172488104/the-vaportini-a-cocktail-inhaled-not-stirred

Think of it as something between warming a brandy snifter over a candle and freebasing Knob Creek bourbon.

And, on no evidence at all, our children are obviously doing this behind their bedroom doors.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Here's the original basis for the story that the TERRIBLE NEW THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN is based on: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/20/172488104/the-vaportini-a-cocktail-inhaled-not-stirred

Think of it as something between warming a brandy snifter over a candle and freebasing Knob Creek bourbon.

And, on no evidence at all, our children are obviously doing this behind their bedroom doors.

IT BYPASSES THE LIVER AND GOES STRAIGHT TO THE BRAIN! IT ENTERS THE BLOODSTREAM AND DOESN'T LEAVE IT! IGNORE THE INHERENT CONTRADICTIONS IN EVERY VAGUELY MEDICAL-SOUNDING THING I SAY, I HEARD IT FROM A DOCTOR WHO WILL REMAIN UNNAMED!

[Nephew Twiddleton]

  What.....

[Doktor Howl]

Here's the original basis for the story that the TERRIBLE NEW THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN is based on: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/20/172488104/the-vaportini-a-cocktail-inhaled-not-stirred

Think of it as something between warming a brandy snifter over a candle and freebasing Knob Creek bourbon.

And, on no evidence at all, our children are obviously doing this behind their bedroom doors.

IT BYPASSES THE LIVER AND GOES STRAIGHT TO THE BRAIN! IT ENTERS THE BLOODSTREAM AND DOESN'T LEAVE IT! IGNORE THE INHERENT CONTRADICTIONS IN EVERY VAGUELY MEDICAL-SOUNDING THING I SAY, I HEARD IT FROM A DOCTOR WHO WILL REMAIN UNNAMED!

What I love about the article I linked, is that no scientists or doctors were quoted at all.  There was a youtube video that showed someone claiming to "vaportini", and the only person quoted was some prevention asshole.  No doctors, no scientists, no law enforcement...And they were even good enough to say that "nobody knows how many hospitalizations have occurred", rather than "nobody knows IF hospitalizations have occurred".

This is what passes for evidence among the prevention community.

Remember "Pharming"?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Here's the original basis for the story that the TERRIBLE NEW THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN is based on: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/20/172488104/the-vaportini-a-cocktail-inhaled-not-stirred

Think of it as something between warming a brandy snifter over a candle and freebasing Knob Creek bourbon.

And, on no evidence at all, our children are obviously doing this behind their bedroom doors.

IT BYPASSES THE LIVER AND GOES STRAIGHT TO THE BRAIN! IT ENTERS THE BLOODSTREAM AND DOESN'T LEAVE IT! IGNORE THE INHERENT CONTRADICTIONS IN EVERY VAGUELY MEDICAL-SOUNDING THING I SAY, I HEARD IT FROM A DOCTOR WHO WILL REMAIN UNNAMED!

What I love about the article I linked, is that no scientists or doctors were quoted at all.  There was a youtube video that showed someone claiming to "vaportini", and the only person quoted was some prevention asshole.  No doctors, no scientists, no law enforcement...And they were even good enough to say that "nobody knows how many hospitalizations have occurred", rather than "nobody knows IF hospitalizations have occurred".

This is what passes for evidence among the prevention community.

Remember "Pharming"?

Oh yeah, totally! It's a simple formula; you take something that is a real phenomenon, like inhaling alcohol, throw in some alarmist verbiage and talk about what "might" happen, and VOILA! Sensationalist gold!

Remember vodka tampons? 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Well, they do quote one doctor:

"The normal sensation when you drink and you are getting more drunk is to vomit: It's your body's way of expelling alcohol," explained Dr. Robert Glatter of Lenox Hill Hospital. " However, when you inhale alcohol, your brain has no way of expelling it."

[Doktor Howl]

Well, they do quote one doctor:

"The normal sensation when you drink and you are getting more drunk is to vomit: It's your body's way of expelling alcohol," explained Dr. Robert Glatter of Lenox Hill Hospital. " However, when you inhale alcohol, your brain has no way of expelling it."

And that's true information.  But at what point is he saying that people are actually doing this, that kids are actually doing it, or that he's dealt with any cases of this at all?

[Ben Shapiro]

WARN RHMN!

[Doktor Howl]

WARN RHMN!

DID YOU MEAN RWHN?  ARE YOU ON THE PIPE RIGHT NOW?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Well, they do quote one doctor:

"The normal sensation when you drink and you are getting more drunk is to vomit: It's your body's way of expelling alcohol," explained Dr. Robert Glatter of Lenox Hill Hospital. " However, when you inhale alcohol, your brain has no way of expelling it."

And that's true information.  But at what point is he saying that people are actually doing this, that kids are actually doing it, or that he's dealt with any cases of this at all?

Yep. But perhaps the most telling is that they only have one quote from this guy but several from the prevention guy.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Get a random quote from a doctor, just to make the whole thing legit.