I am sitting here in my chair recovering from a portion of my left lung being removed a few days ago.
I could continue to lie to myself and say that vaping is safer than smoking regular cigarettes, but there is no comfort there, for me, any longer.
Is vaping safer than smoking a Marlboro or other cigarette? The jury is still out on that one, but there is compelling evidence that vaping may be slightly less dangerous. The truth is that it is too early to tell as vaping is relatively new as compared to the 1000's of years of history on smoking tobacco in the raw.
For anyone to say that vaping is safe is just not true. The fact of the matter is that inhaling any foreign substance into the lungs is not safe as the lungs were not designed for such activity.
If you are going to smoke or vape, I surely hope that you are prepared for the nightmare that awaits you. No amount of fooling yourself will change the likelihood that if you do either, you will eventually pay the price for it.
I can respect someone who smokes and is prepared for the dangers that await, but for those who simply make excuses and attempt to convince others of their lies in order to "not be the only one" harming them self, I have little pity for what you will end up facing.
I, like many others, told myself that vaping was better than cigarettes in order to somehow justify me keeping my bad habit of smoking.
I went in to my doctors office for a kidney stone and my whole world was turned upside down. While I or my doctors cannot say that vaping was 100% the cause for three tumors in my left lung, together they and I have come to the conclusion that the likely cause was vaping. How else did i get three tumors that had a glycerin component?
Do what you want to yourself, but when you do, be as careful as possible. There are so many pop up vaping liquid companies out there that are not regulated that it should really scare the hell out of you. The lack of negative evidence early on in this new vaping world does not mean that there are no problems with it.
If you are going to buy and use these things, make sure to try and stick with the producers that are heavily involved with research into their own products.
If you end up losing a part of your lung due to smoking, you can only blame yourself. It would be better to get help with this disease and avoid the problems altogether.
Can someone tell me how I am supposed to explain to my children that my bad habits have been killing me for years and that I never stopped even when I knew that it would hurt me? How do I explain the amount of selfishness that I have shown by ignoring their pleas to stop?
I could continue to lie to myself and say that vaping is safer than smoking regular cigarettes, but there is no comfort there, for me, any longer.
Is vaping safer than smoking a Marlboro or other cigarette? The jury is still out on that one, but there is compelling evidence that vaping may be slightly less dangerous. The truth is that it is too early to tell as vaping is relatively new as compared to the 1000's of years of history on smoking tobacco in the raw.
For anyone to say that vaping is safe is just not true. The fact of the matter is that inhaling any foreign substance into the lungs is not safe as the lungs were not designed for such activity.
If you are going to smoke or vape, I surely hope that you are prepared for the nightmare that awaits you. No amount of fooling yourself will change the likelihood that if you do either, you will eventually pay the price for it.
I can respect someone who smokes and is prepared for the dangers that await, but for those who simply make excuses and attempt to convince others of their lies in order to "not be the only one" harming them self, I have little pity for what you will end up facing.
I, like many others, told myself that vaping was better than cigarettes in order to somehow justify me keeping my bad habit of smoking.
I went in to my doctors office for a kidney stone and my whole world was turned upside down. While I or my doctors cannot say that vaping was 100% the cause for three tumors in my left lung, together they and I have come to the conclusion that the likely cause was vaping. How else did i get three tumors that had a glycerin component?
Do what you want to yourself, but when you do, be as careful as possible. There are so many pop up vaping liquid companies out there that are not regulated that it should really scare the hell out of you. The lack of negative evidence early on in this new vaping world does not mean that there are no problems with it.
If you are going to buy and use these things, make sure to try and stick with the producers that are heavily involved with research into their own products.
If you end up losing a part of your lung due to smoking, you can only blame yourself. It would be better to get help with this disease and avoid the problems altogether.
Can someone tell me how I am supposed to explain to my children that my bad habits have been killing me for years and that I never stopped even when I knew that it would hurt me? How do I explain the amount of selfishness that I have shown by ignoring their pleas to stop?
