| | TulgeyWood said "It is not like drinking a pop. There is a distinct lack of credible, long term studies on the effects of vape smoke.
Bysides the fact, smoke on its own is irritating. Until approved by appropriate canadian health agencies, they ought to be treated like cigarettes. " |
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Yep, your right smoke is very irritating however "vaping" doesn't produce smoke it produces vapor which is no where near the same as smoke.
Actually vaping is nothing new, it's been around for over 50 years or more. The first electronic cigarette patent was filed in 1963 by a dude named Herbert A. Gilbert. There are also lots of studies done on them as well. However most studies are fairly new I will admit but that is mostly because vaping as just in recent years really exploded Worldwide. Also I don't even need to be a scientist to know that vaping is a better then actual smoking.
Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. These cigarette ingredients include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT. Now compare that to vaping which has 3 chemicals. Nicotine, Propylene glycol (not Ethylene glycol - which is toxic). PG is used in asthma inhalers and nebulizers. An experiment using animals determined "air containing these vapors in amounts up to the saturation point is completely harmless". The USA FDA has classified propylene glycol as "generally recognized as safe". Lastly there is vegetable glycerol - low toxicity. Used in medications, cosmetic and food items.
Let's just admit it, the only reason vaping is getting a bad rap these days is due to the Government losing HUGE amounts of tax revenue that is generated by the sale of cigarettes and we also can't forget that the big tobacco industry doesn't want to see vaping allowed as it will hurt them as well. So obviously these two will do just about anything to instil fear in us and think that if we vape or are subjected to vapor we will die a slow and painful death or we will grow a third eye.
Sources: (Medical)
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/ECigsExhaledSmoke.htm
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/DublinEcigBenchtopHandout.pdf
Dr Joel Nitzkin, Chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force for the American Association of Public Health Physicians, believes the hazards posed by e-cigarettes would be much lower than one percent of that posed by smoking tobacco cigarettes.
In fact, the AAPHP states:
"Substances in the cigarette smoke, other than the nicotine, inhaled deep into the lung, cause most of the tobacco-attributable illness and death in the United States."
The AAPHP recommends electronic cigarettes as a less hazardous smoke-free tobacco/nicotine product.
Ecigs are a viable harm reduction device in my opinion, one that more smokers need to know about.
Important caveat
Ecigs have really only been in use for the past few years, so nothing is known about the long term effects. However, given 50% of tobacco smokers will die as a direct result of their habit (and often in a horrible way), it would seem to me that it's a risk worth taking.
It was for me as I really had nothing to lose as I was quite certain I was going to be one of the 50% that smoking would kill - and probably sooner rather than later.
Edited by JonnyGCustoms, 2016-04-09 12:30:28