Third-hand vapor .. causes cancer?

[maureengill]

Nope...you missed a couple things....

I spent massive time as a baby crawling all over floors and eating things off of it, slobbering on it and I'm sure eating carpet and the like at one point or another....I'd bet the the 20 minutes of stop dead traffic that I sit in every day is way worse....damn sun roof.

Maureen

Let me see if I understand the science.

According to FDA, we may get too much nicotine from electronic cigarettes and overdose. According to the UK's MPHA, we won't get enough nicotine, which will spoil our attempts to stop smoking as well as prejudice us against using their much more effective NRT products. And according to the VCU study, we aren't getting any nicotine at all.

Now, according the the Californians, I have second hand smoke lying around everywhere (guess I should get around to doing a little house-cleaning), and I am likely to go out and get a gas furnace to install in my all electric home and get cancer from the ambient nicotine reacting with the Nitrous Acid.

My father smoked. I smoked for 45 years and also had a husband smoking in the same house for 30+ years. I lived in homes with gas furnaces for half my life. Hmmm....

Actually, I died of cancer 20 years ago and my ghost is writing this.



Does that about cover it?

[DVap]

Yes, there is a study that says we don't exhale noticeable nic, but that was a paid-for study. Our own Exo and Dvap were experimenting on this very question, and I believe the end result was, on a 'primer-puff' we exhale somewhere from 30-50% of the nicotine - not so much on a complete inhale/exhale.

Actually, neither Exo (last time I checked with him) nor I have done any testing of nicotine exhalation due to the very limiting factor of exhaled carbon dioxide affecting the results of a titrimetric determination (due to it's acidic nature). We've tossed some ideas around to deal with the carbon dioxide, but so far, neither of us has put rubber to the road and done anything to run the question to ground.