On Christmas Day, Drug Addict Parents Killed Their Ten-Month-Old Son Finley Boden

A mother and father were found guilty of the murder of their baby son, who they killed on Christmas Day in lockdown just days after social services put him back into their care.

Stephen Boden, 30, and Shannon Marsden, 22, murdered 10-month-old Finley Boden in 2020 after he suffered 71 bruises, 57 fractures and crushed and twisted bones.

Social Workers raised concerns before Finley was even born due to worries over the condition of the family home and his parent’s drug use. He was removed from their care immediately after he was born, in February 2020, but he was returned in November of that year, and just 39 days later, he was killed.

His pelvis was broken in two places, from sustained kicking or stamping and he had burns on his hand, one from a hot, flat surface, the other from a cigarette flame.

Little Finley fatally collapsed after suffering a cardiac arrest. Paramedics were called at 2.33 am on Christmas Day and he was pronounced dead at the hospital at 3.45 am. His parents didn’t call an ambulance for an hour because Boden wanted to smoke cannabis and hide their drugs.

Police released images of Finley and his killer parents for the first time and the filthy conditions in which he spent his last days, with faeces in the bedroom.

Just hours after his son’s demise, Boden was heard telling Marsden at the hospital that he was going to sell Finley’s pushchair on eBay, later telling police he was attempting to lighten the mood.

He sent a text message two days before the child’s death saying that he wanted to bounce Finley off the walls.

Little Finley becomes the latest victim in the harrowing roll call of children killed in their homes in lockdown, including Star Hobson, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Logan Mwangi.

The inside of Finley’s mouth was torn, with Ms Prior saying that this was caused by forcing a dummy or a bottle in the mouth.

The baby had a spiral break to the thigh, while a shin bone break was consistent with being held by the ankle and gripped and twisted.

Boden later claimed to a relative that the family dog may have jumped on Finley, causing numerous broken ribs, while allegedly blaming marks on Finley’s mouth on his son hitting himself with a rattle.

You can plainly see what a happy baby he was while he was in foster care, but then he was returned home to his monster parents, and this needs to be investigated thoroughly as to why he was returned home to his parents.

There is no other suitable solution in these scenarios than life imprisonment, and when I say life it should mean life with no parole because you just can’t rehabilitate people who act in such an abhorrent way. Of course, psychologists will go through the motions but there’s absolutely nothing that will cure such depravity.

This kind of thing is happening all the time, right here, right now, and social services can’t do their jobs properly because they’re understaffed and overstretched, and there will be another one soon, tragically.

Disappointed King Charles

Royal sources have said that King Charles is extremely disappointed that he won’t see the Duchess of Sussex or his grandchildren at his coronation next month, but is delighted that Prince Harry has chosen to attend.

Buckingham Palace reported the dramatic news in a statement, saying it was happy to confirm the Duke of Sussex will be at Westminster Abbey on May 6, but the Duchess will stay home at the couple’s home in Montecito with one-year-old Lilibet and Archie, whose fourth birthday is on the same day as the ceremony, which will take place in just over three weeks time.

Royal experts said the decision was an ideal compromise which would leave the rest of the family relieved, but some have described the decision as a snub after the King accompanied Meghan down the aisle when she married his younger son.

The news follows the ongoing row between the Sussexes and the rest of the royals, which has become more heated in current months following the release of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare.

A royal source told a newspaper outlet that the King was happy that Harry, his son, who he called his ‘darling boy’ will be at the Abbey.

They said that he wanted him there and that he was very disappointed that he won’t see Meghan or his grandchildren but understands the situation.

Harry’s decision to attend the Westminster Abbey Coronation service is viewed as a possible olive branch by royal insiders, following an earlier demand that his family should apologise to him and Meghan if they were to consider coming.

But plans seen by a newspaper outlet apparently show no intention of giving Harry a role in the ceremony or procession from the Abbey to Buckingham Palace afterwards.

The couple had delayed answering their invitation for weeks, causing problems for organisers tasked with complicated seating plans, transport and security for senior members of the Royal Family, world leaders and other dignitaries.

Sources described the negotiations as a game of transatlantic ping pong, and Harry was said to have wanted numerous assurances about arrangements, but one source said it seemed genuine of Harry to want to attend the coronation.

They said it’s important for Harry as the King’s son to show up for his father, and that seems quite genuine.

Another added that it was about showing up, showing support and being there for his father.

I think some people, forget that behind all this hoopla, they’re still a family, and most families wouldn’t be so quick to give up on theirs even when they’re put through the wringer, and this family isn’t any different.

And as for Meghan if she went to the coronation people would say that was wrong, and if she doesn’t that would also be wrong, she can’t win either way.

I can fully understand why King Charles would be disappointed, and I don’t see any reason why Meghan shouldn’t attend, after all, she is Harry’s wife, but now she’s being treated like the spare. It would have given the King the chance to spend a bit of time with his grandchildren, and why shouldn’t he be allowed to spend time with them, he’s no different than any other family, he’s a grandfather.

Some people might say that King Charles needs to grow a backbone and disown Harry. There’s no way that the King will do that, Harry is his son as much as William is, and blood is thicker than water, and it’s clear that Charles doesn’t want to disown his son and just because people want him to doesn’t mean that he should!

Greed And Irresponsibility Has Been Revealed

Doctors ought not to go on strike. This principle is so fundamental that it should need no debate.

By striking for four days this week, junior doctors reveal their greed and irresponsibility because they’re prepared to put their own interests above those of their patients.

They claim no one will die because of their action, emergency services will be maintained and routines necessary to save people in extremis will not be affected.

Believe that if you like. After all, it’s not as if emergency services were operating flawlessly before the walkouts.

But even if ambulance response times are unaffected, operations and outpatient appointments will have to be delayed.

The entire goal of the walkouts is to impose suffering on the masses, if nobody suffered, the strike would be meaningless.

Indeed, according to NHS England, the walkout by 61,000 junior doctors will have a greater impact than any of the recent health service strikes.

The chief executive of the NHS Confederation, an organisation of health service bodies, went further, saying it would have a catastrophic impact on NHS waiting lists, with up to 350,000 appointments and operations likely to be cancelled.

In other words, the junior doctors have changed the overriding principle of the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm. Their principle appears to have become: First do harm, then we’ll see.

By means of imposing avoidable suffering on large numbers of people, with the threat of more to come, they hope to put pressure on the Government to give them a pay rise of 35 per cent, far more than any other public sector pay claim.

The British Medical Association union is behaving more like the unions that did so much to destroy the British car industry in the 1970s than an association of professionals.

Reading the British Medical Journal, the BMA’s flagship publication, sometimes gives you the impression you’re wading through the old Soviet propaganda sheet, Pravda, so little dialogue is there in its opinion columns, so taken for granted are its Left-wing principles.

This walkout will also inevitably lower the esteem in which doctors are held by the masses, and rightly so. The reservoir of respect for the medical profession, built over decades, is derived in part from the willingness to work long hours irrespective of pay.

Both the doctors, or at least their representative organisation, and the Government have worked to erode the dignity, trust and admiration of the profession.

Surely these junior doctors knew what salary they would be on when they took the job, and I’m sure they would be handsomely rewarded as their careers progressed. You can’t be in a junior position and expect the same or near the same salary as a person with years of experience.

However, there’s no motivation for junior doctors who work long hours and have to take out loans to study, but that’s the way it’s always been and not just for junior doctors but for other professions as well.

Junior doctors are called Junior doctors for a reason, they’re not fully qualified, and unfortunately, now, they’re violating the Hippocratic Oath, directly or indirectly and that’s extremely sad indeed.

Actually, doctors don’t take the Hippocratic Oath, although they do take a variant of it.

Either way, it’s a solemn pledge of solidarity to do good and avoid evil, and non-maleficence towards patients. Not to assist suicide or abortion, and to leave surgery to surgeons. Not to harm, especially not to seduce patients and maintain confidentiality and never gossip.

Doctors should be reminded that it might not be the Hippocratic Oath, but nevertheless, it’s still an oath to never intentionally cause harm to patients, and that they should have the highest regard for human life. That they should practice medicine with integrity, humility, honesty and compassion, and they should remember that the practice of medicine is a privilege with which comes considerable responsibility and that position should never be abused. So, do they believe that a four-day strike and 250,000 procedures cancelled is living up to their oath?

A Brexit-Style In-Out Vote May Be Granted To London Boroughs Over Ulez

Voters could be given the opportunity to scrap an extension of Sadiq Khan’s green Ulez vehicle tax if the Tories take power in London.

Samuel Kasumu, an ex-adviser to Boris Johnson who wants to be the Tory contender at the next mayoral election, has said he would permit outer boroughs to hold referenda on remaining in the scheme.

Sadiq Khan plans to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone to all 32 boroughs of London in August, meaning owners of older and more polluting vehicles will have to pay £12.50 daily charge to travel around the capital, but the plans have sparked a fierce fightback from political adversaries and campaigners who say it will unfairly hit small businesses.

Mr Kazumu, 35, said the issue would be a key battleground in the next mayoral election in 2024, which could take place on the same day as the general election.

He told a newspaper outlet that they’ve got to do things in a responsible manner and that they have to be able to take people with them. You can’t just impose your will onto folks who don’t want it.

He said he will pledge that within the first 12 months to have a local referendum for every outer London borough so they can be empowered with the choice about how they respond to what Sadiq Khan has done.

However, Mr Kasumu faces an uphill task to get elected, with new polling showing Tory support in freefall in the Capital.

A YouGov poll put the Tories on just 18 per cent, 40 points behind Labour, whose lead is the largest since the company began polling in the city in 2010.

It could see the party lose 12 of its existing 19 Westminster seats in London if replicated at the next election.

Mr Kasumu was a special adviser to the Prime Minister on civil society until April 2021. Then stepped down when a Government-backed review said Britain was no longer a country where the system was intentionally rigged against ethnic minorities.

He later said some Conservatives believe the path to victory at the next election includes exploiting division and warned a culture war will lead to murder on Britain’s streets.

He’s presently a councillor on Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council in Hertfordshire. He is originally from Barnet and studied business and management accounting at Brunel University, where he was student president. He graduated with a 2:1 and later received a postgraduate degree in Ethnicity, Migration, and Policy from Birbeck, University of London.

Sadiq Khan is destroying London, and there are very few who will vote for him now, or at least admit to voting for him, and why vote, just scrap it altogether? All votes are fixed anyway!

Londoners get charged to drive around their own city, on top of paying motor tax, duty on fuel et cetera, what a total racket, and for all those people out there who believe there’s no environmental cost, with electric vehicles, are in for a rude awakening.

The problem with people in government is sadly none of them can be trusted and they’re all duplicitous liars, and Mayors should be ceremonial only.

Sadiq Khan should never have been permitted such a long term as mayor. He’s ruined London and continues to do so, and he should never be considered for another term.

Ulez has no bearing on climate change or air pollution, and Sadiq Khan is just raking in money.

If this was really about the issue of pollution, the mayor would be saying that you can’t drive into these zones under any circumstances because it’s killing people, but instead, he’s saying you can kill people as long as you pay, but he won’t let you do it for free – it’s purely a money-making scheme.

On Average, The Police Fail To Respond To 120 Break-Ins A Day

Figures indicate that the police failed to turn up to more than 45,000 burglaries last year, the equivalent of 120 a day.

A total of 45,233 crimes reported to 19 forces in England and Wales saw no officer visit the scene.

The actual figure will be far higher because 14 others declined to answer a Freedom of Infomation request submitted by the Liberal Democrats.

Victims suffer a stark postcode lottery, with half of all burglary reports going unattended in some regions of the country.

The most alarming was in Bedfordshire, with officers failing to visit the scene of 61 per cent of reports of the crime, followed by Northumbria with 59 per cent, and three-quarters of burglaries reported to the 19 forces last year were closed without a suspect being identified.

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey called for a guarantee that all victims are visited by police and cases are properly investigated.

He said that no family should be denied justice after suffering the distress and trauma of being burgled.

A government spokesman said that the Home Secretary made clear to police chiefs that forces must attend all domestic burglaries.

However, if someone sends a nasty tweet, they’ll be around in minutes, with three squad cars with lights flashing and sirens blaring.

There once was law and order from our police force. Now, all we have is the laughing policeman who would now rather chase after somebody who said something on Twitter or Facebook because more than ever we live in a woke society that knows no better, and God forbid you misgender someone you’ll be arrested, sacked or even potentially jailed by the woke police. So, where does the hard-earned tax that we pay go?

The way that the world is going, pretty soon murder will be considered a civil matter because it appears that the police have more important fish to fry. Investigating non-crimes, hurty words on the internet, learning new dance steps, face painting et cetera.

Now, UK police are complicit in these crimes because their deliberate neglect is facilitating criminal activity.

If you have your phone stolen and it’s tracked to a house, you pretty much have to report it online, where it will pretty much instantly come back that they looked at the case and there was no further action, yet the one person who robbed your phone is likely responsible for numerous crimes, yet the police weren’t interested because they were probably more interested in playing Candy Crush Saga on their phones.

Perhaps it’s time for communities to form their own police forces to keep our neighbourhoods safe because it seems that we’re paying a proportion of Council Tax for nothing, but then this is broken Tory Britain! And the problem is that our priorities are not PC Plod’s priorities.

The police should be able to solve the majority of burglaries with all the CCTV around but appear to be too lazy or unwilling to use this technology and ask the government why they’re not financing the police to allow them to do their job and attend.

In the future, vigilantes will be the only option available to the common person, but then that will be the perfect excuse to bring in draconian rules for all, and at the moment they’re playing the long game.

So, where is all our hard-earned cash going? Council Tax for police funding has been increased steadily and we appear to be paying the highest amount of taxes in the whole of Europe, and the per head of population police budgeting is immense, so just where is all our money going?

Paul O’Grady, Aged 67, Has Passed Away

Paul O’Grady, who shot to stardom as trailblazing comic drag act Lily Savage before becoming one of the country’s best-loved TV presenters and DJs, died suddenly but peacefully last night, his partner said. He was 67 years old.

Andre Portasio, who married Paul O’Grady in 2017, paid tribute to his humour, wit and compassion in a statement announcing his death released just before 3 am.

Paul O’Grady became a household name in the early noughties, known for his humour and love of animals, and hosted a string of television programmes including his self-titled daytime chat show, The Paul O’Grady Show, which began airing in 2004.

He also took over the reins from Blind Date’s long-running presenter and close friend Cilla Black, who passed away in 2015, to host the Channels 5 reboot of the show in 2017. And he fronted Blankety Blank, as well as ITV’s award-winning For The Love Of Dogs.

The father of one’s cause of death wasn’t immediately known, but he had previously spoken of surviving heart attacks in 2002, 2006 and 2014, and also kidney failure. He also had a debilitating COVID battle that left him unfit to work for two months.

Paul O’Grady married Portuguese lesbian barmaid Teresa Fernandes in 1977 to stop her deportation. They divorced in 2005 and he married ex-ballet dancer Mr Portasio in 2017.

Decades before in 1974, he had his only child, a daughter called Sharyn Mousley, with his dear friend Diane Jansen. Paul O’Grady was also a grandfather to Sharyn’s son Abel, who was born in 2006 and is now aged 16, and Sharyn’s daughter Halo, born in 2009.

Mr Portasio said early this morning that it was with great sadness that he had to inform everyone that Paul had passed away unexpectedly but peacefully yesterday evening and that they ask, at this difficult time, that whilst everybody is honouring his life, they should also respect their privacy as they come to terms with the loss.

He added that he would be greatly missed by his loved ones, friends, family, animals and all those who enjoyed his humour, wit and compassion and that he knew that Paul would want him to thank everyone for all the love they had shown him over the years.

Paul O’Grady and Portasio were married during a low-key wedding ceremony in 2017.

During his career, he hosted The Paul O’Grady Show, Blind Date and Blankety Blank, as well as ITV’s multi-award-winning For The Love Of Dogs. He also hosted ITV’s celebrity game show, Paul O’Grady Saturday Night Line Up.

Paul O’Grady had a dagger wit and pizzazz, he demonstrated compassion for the underdog and kindness and consideration for dogs themselves. He also showed his civic responsibility by becoming a Lord Lieutenant in Kent and majestically danced across the airwaves on the radio.

He was a truly remarkable, humorous and kind gentleman who passed away too early.

As Lily Savage, he was a fantastic entertainer. Fast, acerbic and super humorous. As Paul O’Grady, he was equally as funny, but also kind and had the warmth and comfort of the perfect cup of tea enveloped in a familiar blanket.

British entertainment will never be the same again, and of course, it’s customary to say nice things about someone when they pass away at such a young age, but he actually was the most incredible entertainer. Illuminating, witty and compassionate, and he will be sorely missed.

His death is an unexpected loss, not just to the industry as a warm and delightful personality, but as a trailblazer for animal welfare and compassion. He was like the David Attenborough of the dog world.

An English teacher In North Carolina Resigned After Covering The Mouth Of An 11-Year-Old Boy With Heavy-Duty Tape

An eleven-year-old North Carolina student allegedly had his mouth taped shut by his sixth-grade English teacher after talking too much in class.

Catherine Webster received a text message from her son Brady in February saying that he didn’t know what to do with a picture of himself with layers of blue painter’s tape adhered to his mouth during class at Smithfield Middle School, Johnston County.

Horrified by the picture of her son who she described to be a chatterbox who had the propensity to clown about.

Catherine posted the startling picture to Facebook to bring to light her son’s account and his interaction with Dawn Felix who she refers to as Mrs Felix in the post.

Catherine said she hoped her post would act as an example to any other teachers or caregivers who may be walking a fine line, and she said she’d never met, seen or received an email from Mrs Felix, who allegedly used this bizarre punishment on at least three students.

But evidently, she should have, several times over, so that she could work with the teacher to correct her son Brady’s conduct in her class.

She said that his grades were good, so she had no reason to believe anything was amiss there because the teacher never once reached out to her.

The mother of three said other teachers claimed Brady got along well with others and enjoyed entertaining his classmates, and that he also had a tendency to clown around and be disruptive and talk too much.

She said that she was a reasonable person and a fair strict parent with no tolerance for disrespect and an understanding that teachers don’t have time for repetitive disruption, and that she also disciplines Brady at home when this happens.

After receiving the text message from her son who said he was humiliated by the experience, Catherine said she couldn’t hold back her sock and disappointment.

She said that other teachers had communicated their concerns about Brady’s behaviour and with her help, came up with solutions to keep disturbances in class to a minimum.

She said in the post that those teachers have had to redirect or correct this conduct and they had always emailed or contacted her to make her aware, and she said that they would give Brady a silent lunch or move him away from his buddies or in some cases, more serious but acceptable forms of punishment, and up until that point no hand had been laid on Brady.

Painter’s tape is not heavy-duty tape, but that’s not the point. The point is that the teacher should have had Brady leave the class if he was such a disruption, not tape his mouth together as if he was going to be tortured, and of course, this kind of tape is removable. The child’s hands were not bound together, but the fact is the teacher should have never been doing this to a young child in front of his friends with the intent of humiliating him.

I understand this teacher’s frustration. However, her actions were totally inappropriate, and while we’re living in a time when discipline in schools is virtually non-existent, protocols need to be observed.

What the teacher did to this child was assault. A teacher is not allowed to lay a hand on a student, and by taping his mouth, she was giving him the attention that he desired while interrupting everyone elses learning.

The Utah Governor Signs New Laws Requiring Parents To Give Their Consent Before Their Children Can Use Social Media

Utah’s governor signed into law two bills this week that regulate social media use for children and minors and put more power into the hands of their parents and caregivers.

On Thursday, Governor Spencer Cox signed H.B. 311 and S.B. 152 which requires parental consent for minors to create profiles on social media sites and gives parents access to their child’s accounts.

Governor Spencer Cox said on Twitter Thursday afternoon that they’re no longer willing to let social media companies continue to harm the mental health of their youth.

H.B. 311 goes one step further when it comes to social media regulation, prohibiting companies from using addictive features or designs and enforcing curfews.

The new laws come as TikTok’s CEO testified before US Congress about the app and as at least four other states consider similar legislation concerning online platforms.

In a tweet Thursday, Cox said it was his responsibility as a parent and lawmaker to protect the children of the state from toxic social media platforms.

The Republican governor stated that youth rates of depression and other mental health issues were on the rise because of social media companies.

He continued in a tweet with a video of him talking about the new laws, saying that as leaders, and parents, they have a responsibility to protect their young people.

The new laws prohibit social media companies from displaying ads, showing accounts held by minors in search results, and gathering data on children.

The apps will also be unable to suggest or target content and ads to children.

One of the most notable features is the curfew which automatically locks children out of their accounts at 10.30 pm and doesn’t allow them back in until 6.30 am.

The locks are triggered by the location of a user’s phone and the feature can be changed with parental permission. Platforms like Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook now have until March 1, 2024, to comply, and if they don’t adhere to the new law, they may be punished in civil or criminal court.

While speaking with NBC News, one of the co-sponsors of one of the bills said he hopes to see the trend spread across the states as a way to address what some health officials have deemed a mental health crisis, and Utah state Senator Michael McKell said that he didn’t think they’ve seen a time in American history where mental health had been so problematic.

Of course, in this day and age where the streets of the US can be extremely dangerous, a child needs some form of communication to contact someone if they were in trouble. Back in the day, it was a pager or a walkie-talkie, and of course, there were no social media. Just a cell phone that was very basic, calls and text messages to friends and family, and children survived just fine. A child with a cell phone and social media is not a good idea, so they’re doing the right thing – 100 per cent!

Numerous manufacturers brand some excellent dumbphones, although the coverage on them isn’t especially great, so they might think about upgrading for better cell phone coverage because as a parent, it would be nice to know where your children are and how they’re doing. After all, imagine having no way to contact your child during a school shooting or something similar.

Children should not be left alone on social media full stop because everything on there is manipulated just perfectly. Children are at risk and it’s all danger, danger, danger. In fact, social media sites should be shut down for good because they’re more trouble than they’re worth.

Back in the day we just had good old MSN chat, AOL chat and Yahoo chat, and even those needed to be monitored to a point. Bring these back and shut down Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media sites that now exist.

An Update On The DNA Test For The I Am Madeleine McCann Girl Is Issued As Dr Fia Vows To Get ‘Justice’

An update on a DNA test with ‘I am Madeleine McCann’ girl Julia Wandelt has been issued by Dr Fia Johansson.

In an Instagram Live post, Dr Fia Johansson shared details of Julia’s search to discover her identity.

Last month she shot to worldwide importance when she posted on social media to claim that she could be missing Madeleine.

Since then, she’s travelled to America, where Dr Fia Johansson lives, and has taken a DNA test.

Julia is also undergoing medical tests after doctors communicated their fears that she may have leukaemia.

Dr Fia Johansson revealed that Julia was awaiting the results of her DNA test.

She then went on to claim that, once they were back, they would be checked against Madeleine’s. However, Dr Fia Johansson explained that there was no necessity for Madelein’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann to be involved in the process because, she alleged, the DNA needed to check it against was already held on file.

Dr Fia Johansson said that at this moment they don’t know if Julia is Madeleine McCann or not. All the other facial apps are not really valid and legit until the DNA test comes back.

She claimed that a lot are asking why are they not asking Kate and Gerry McCann. Because there’s no need because Madeleine McCann’s DNA is already there and they don’t need to get involved, and Dr Fia Johansson added that they have teenagers, and they need to protect them and their privacy.

Dr Fia Johansson then went on to explain what will happen once she gets Julia’s DNA results back.

She said that when the DNA test comes in, which she was really badly waiting for and checking every day, they will match with the DNA of Madeleine McCann or anyone else out there that’s looking for their children that went missing at that time.

Dr Fia Johansson then addressed the possibility that perhaps Julia wasn’t Madeleine, and said that a lot of people were saying what if she’s not Madeleine McCann, what if she’s not anyone’s child and what if she is her mother’s real child?

She then declared that she would feel sorry for Julia to have such a heartless mum.

Some might say that it’s just one big scam and that they know the DNA is going to come back negative in regard to Madeleine McCann, and that plan b will be a terminal illness gofundme page to raise money.

As fellow human beings, we should never be in a rush to judge other folks, and we should never make a judgment based on assumptions, and we should always explore all possibilities first.

Let’s just wait for the DNA results before being judgemental because there are a lot of people’s emotions and feelings being impacted by this case.

A New Study Says Vapers Are Inhaling 240 Chemicals

Vaping has become one of Australia’s biggest public health problems, with children as young as 14 taking up e-cigarettes.

New research by the Australian National University is being used to back a call for a government crackdown on access to e-cigarettes.

Vaping is frequently framed as a better option than smoking cigarettes but the report identified a throng of risks, including unintended poisoning.

Lead research Professor Emily Banks said that our lungs are designed to breathe fresh air and that people using vapes were inhaling a complex cocktail of chemicals.

More than 240 chemicals were found in the toxicological analysis of non-nicotine e-cigarettes. That compares to about 7,000 chemicals in traditional cigarettes.

The report said that users of nicotine e-cigarettes could also be poisoned by the nicotine itself.

According to Cancer Council Victoria, nicotine poisoning can cause seizures and respiratory depression, which can result in death.

Australians can only legally access nicotine vapes if they have a prescription to use the products for the purpose of stopping smoking, but the absence of strong law enforcement against the illegal sale of e-cigarettes is threatening Australia’s hard-fought tobacco control successes, a Cancer Council spokesperson said.

Council chair Anita Dessaix said that every state and territory government must crack down on the hundreds of retailers illegally selling e-cigarette products outside of pharmacies, under the noses of authorities.

The report also found that most uses of e-cigarettes were not for smoking cessation, since most smokers who vape continued to smoke, and most uses in young people weren’t about stopping smoking.

More than one-third of e-cigarette users in Australia are under 25, with 11 per cent of the population aged 14 and over-reporting e-cigarette use in 2019.

The Australian Medical Association is urging the government to clamp down, giving the increasing use of vapes by children.

AMA president Professor Steve Robson said that Australian governments need to act now and that this would help them start to tackle the issue of vapes being marketed and sold to children.

At least 32 countries prohibit the sale of nicotine e-cigarettes, 79 countries permit them to be sold while fully or partly regulating them and the remaining 84 countries do not regulate them at all.

The study was published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

Of course, the science is there, but apply a bit of common sense because breathing anything into your lungs other than that rare commodity of fresh air isn’t going to be beneficial to your health, including car fumes and other harmful substances that we breathe in every day on our travels.

Eventually, hospitals will be plagued with people suffering damage from these chemicals.

What should happen is that people should be armed with information on what’s in the vapes and then let people decide if they want to poison their bodies because to be honest, in the real world everything that we breathe in and eat is bad for us.

Every human will die of something or another, whether it be nicotine, alcohol or drugs as an alternative to boring natural causes.

However, we as a society believe it’s okay to tell others what to do. Nonetheless, as long as you’re not breaking the law, people should be allowed to just get on with it, but governments won’t allow that and the world is turning into the Truman Show, or even worse, Hunger Games.

Manufacturers know they’re adding addictive substances to vapes, just like they do with cigarettes, so why aren’t they held accountable for essentially poisoning people?

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