H1N1 (Swine Flu) and e-cigs?

[housewife]

Ok, I'm not trying to come off as alarmist in this, but I've been reading more and more about this swine flue thats starting to spread. Everything I read about preparing your body to fight off a flu should you become exposed/infected agree that you should definately not smoke, as it makes you more susceptible to respiratory infections. Does anyone know how much e-smoking might contribute to decreasing respiratory imunity?

Also, something I've always wondered about, is the moisture from the e-cig in the lungs. Getting pnumonia on top of the flu is definitely not desireable; does anyone think vaping might make this risk any more likely?

Anyway, I hope all is well, but the more I read about this situation, the worse its starting to look. If anyone wants some more info on this potential pandemic, heres a couple links:

Mexico Says as Many as 68 Deaths Tied to Flu Outbreak

Deadly new flu virus in US and Mexico may go pandemic

Most Mexico fatal flu victims aged between 25-45

[Kate]

Propylene glycol might help to kill the flu germs - A germ-killing vapor

[Caesarea]

(snip)how much e-smoking might contribute to decreasing respiratory immunity?
(snip)

Other way round I think, housewife,

- I am mightily relieved not to be smoking ordinary cigarettes any more...

C

[housewife]

Wow, fascinating info Kate, that pretty much put all of my worries to rest!

Other way round I think, housewife,

- I am mightily relieved not to be smoking ordinary cigarettes any more...

C

I agree with you there Caesarea, I no doubt belive its better, I was just on a paranoid kick, reading up on all kinds of "optimal" precautions to take to prevent infection.

[Caesarea]

Which is why I am so angry for my friends in other countries who are being denied the option.

[katink]

It would be a good idea to keep the halls on the airfields dosed with PG... might kill it off before spreading into the country (and perhaps also at road-borders, spray the cars coming through).

[TropicalBob]

When the original research on PG's germ-killing capabilities was done in the early 1940s, no one could have envisioned a small, personal vaporizer that looked something like a cigarette. The original research centered on filling entire rooms with propylene glycol vapor, to prevent a pandemic like the 1918 one (more soldiers died from flu than from combat).

But technology has brought us a personal PG-delivery device. We can saturate our lungs with PG vapor in a way not even Jules Verne could have foreseen back then. We can thus kill susceptible germs with every inhalation of our needed nicotine carried in PG vapor.

H1N1 can migrate as airborne or via contact. E-smoking might prove protective against an airborne contagion, and hand-washing can help prevent contact spread. In the frantic search now to prevent yet another global pandemic, wouldn't it be nice if just one laboratory could test PG vapor on a Petri dish of H1N1 germs?

We might hold an answer to a pandemic between our fingers. And we might be find a guaranteed way to gain acceptance of e-smoking with the its PG protections.

I'm ready. I have Tamiflu in the refrigerator and a Janty Kissbox in my right hand! Cheers to a long life, fellow e-smokers!

[taz3cat]

TB, It is going to be more like in 5 years, some one will write a paper on how all the people could have been save from the flu in 2009 by using PG. evey rone will be amazed that a fog machine could save lives.

[esmok-e]

Fate works in strange ways. Perhaps it's time... To me, this connects the dots between us and Big Pharm and Tobacco. The leitmotif is striking. Life and Death (PG and H1N1) (e-cigs and tobacco cigs). Right on Page 1. If PG does kill H1N1 it's a cosmic slap in Big Pharm's face. (What have they done since the 40's but sit on this?). Same thing with Big T, what have they done since the 40's - how many people died? Perhaps the chickens are coming home to roost (vape).

[katink]

Fate does work in strange ways... couldn't we help fate a bit perhaps (sending a link with the original article or study to lets say a mexican lab, or a smaller less in government entangled us-lab)?