A new study confirms what every street medic already knows: vaping is a slow-motion epidemic, turning lungs into chemical waste and mouths into cancer wards. Yet the same week this truth lands in the headlines, NASA counts down to a lunar mission that will burn billions to plant another flag on a dead rock. One science serves the bosses’ profits; the other serves the bosses’ prestige. Both leave ordinary people choking on the fumes of empire. **Profit Over Lungs** A new analysis links vaping to mouth and lung cancers, as reported by The Jerusalem Post science section. The study is a belated admission of what street medics and vape shop workers have witnessed for years: flavored aerosols are not harmless. Yet the state does not ban the products; it merely funds studies that arrive too late, after the damage is done. The FDA’s inaction is not negligence—it is policy. The bosses need their nicotine markets; the rest of us get the bill. **Moon Money, Earth Misery** Separately, NASA is counting down to a lunar comeback, with astronauts preparing for a Moon journey. The countdown is not a triumph of human ingenuity—it is a spectacle of state power. The $100 billion spent to revisit the Moon could have eradicated tuberculosis, built universal healthcare, or funded every community clinic in the Global South. Instead, it will fund the salaries of aerospace executives and the propaganda of American exceptionalism. The astronauts are not explorers; they are mascots for a system that would rather colonize the stars than heal the planet. **Who Decides What Science Matters?** The Jerusalem Post frames vaping and lunar missions as equal science news items, yet one is a public health crisis and the other is a public relations stunt. The state’s priorities are clear: fund wars in space, ignore wars on bodies. The bosses profit from both. The rest of us inhale the consequences.
