6 Nov 14: News AT - E-Cigarette - Wicked gateway drug or harmless stimulant?

[Anjaffm]

6 Nov 14: News AT - E-Cigarette - Wicked gateway drug or harmless stimulant?

Excellent article from Austria - with Prof. Bernd Mayer, the toxicologist who debunked the "50 mg is lethal" nonsense about nicotine.

E-Zigarette: Tückische Einstiegsdroge oder unschädliches Genussmittel?

Google translate (slightly "cleaned up" by me):

E-cigarette heated tempers

Wicked gateway drug or harmless stimulant?


Price question: What does the carcinogenic ingredients benzaldehyde, ethylbenzene, hydrogen peroxide, furan and methylcatechol? Answer: Your daily cup of coffee.
Coffee is just a stimulant, not a medicine. Enjoyed in moderation harmless, but not so harmless as a glass of mineral water. Similarly, one can also e-cigarette does not compare with alpine air - very well but with a conventional fags.

Deadly cigarette consumption

The smoke of a tobacco cigarette contains at least 60 carcinogens.Viscous tar glued the bronchi, carbon monoxide attacks the vessels. For every second of smoking butts consumption is fatal. "If the cigarette was invented today - they would have no chance of approval," says Grazer Toxicology Professor Bernd Mayer. He has studied as a former heavy smoker and current vaper intensively with the now extensive study location and created toxicological reports for vaping fluids (liquids) that come on the market.
The only substance, the cigarettes and their electronic counterparts have in common is nicotine. The neurotoxin is considered by many as the scapegoat in tobacco use. Here, the substance may be investigated promotional, he is as bad as its reputation by no means, as the German Cancer Research Center states: "The severe, often fatal ending health problems that can cause smoking, such as cancer, heart attack, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases are not caused by nicotine. "

How harmful is nicotine?

The Austrian toxicologist Mayer wanted to know how dangerous nicotine really is. The lethal dose of about 50 milligrams are given in the current pharmacology textbooks. In search of the scientific source Mayer came after lengthy literature review on a work from 1906, which in turn was related to self-experiments in a yet fifty years old textbook. Mayer's own estimates amount to at least ten times the dose. Thus, nicotine would be much less harmful than previously thought.
Even the action as a narcotic drug is now revised in part. The standard test according to Fagerström now checks the "tobacco dependence" instead of nicotine dependence because tobacco smoke contains a number of other addictive substances. Further evidence that nicotine is not as strong investigated promoting is believed to provide the most steamer. When switching from tobacco cigarettes to start, although most with liquids, which have a high nicotine content, but these reduce within a few months, until no more nicotine is included.

What's in the liquids?

In addition to nicotine, the vapor-liquid contents still water, propylene glycol, glycerin and food flavorings. All materials are well researched and approved. Propylene glycol is used as in inhalation drugs; harmful to the lungs, it is not. Glycerine is present in all natural fats and oils and as safe. And the flavors are present in such small quantities that they do not have major health implications.
In the media still horror stories are often spread about, there are cancer-causing nitrosamines have been found in some liquids. The fact that their concentration 15,000 times less than in a cigarette and up to 40 times lower than in a nicotine chewing gum, is often left out.
After a review of previous studies toxicologist Mayer says in any case: "I see no indication for a large harmfulness of the e-cigarette ."

(in case somebody wonders where I have been: the German vapers association - of which I am a member - is currently engaged in a large membership drive...)

 

[Nate760]

Propylene glycol is used as in inhalation drugs; harmful to the lungs, it is not.

I can't read this without imagining it in Yoda's voice.

 

[Anjaffm]

@Nate760:

ROFL
Stop smoking you want? Vape you must

 

[Nate760]

@Nate760:

ROFL
Stop smoking you want? Vape you must

..........

"Quit, or quit not. There is no vape."

-- ANTZ Yoda

 

[sonicdsl]

..........

"Quit, or quit not. There is no vape."

-- ANTZ Yoda

Or Matrix Yoda

 

[Nate760]

Or Matrix Yoda

..........

"The blue pill, tastes like tobacco it does. The red pill, tastes like tobacco it does not. Marketed to children it is. Hook a new generation on nicotine it will."

 

[Maytwin]

Nice one, thanks Anja - and yes, where you had been I had wondered

 

[Anjaffm]

hahahaha
I love this conversation!

And thank you, Maytwin

 

[DaveOno]

Nice article, Anja. Thanks. Good points to remember in my next discussion with the illiterati.

btw, I clicked on the link to see the article, and wouldn't you know, there's a story about Kim Kardashian's .....

I knew her .... was big, but world wide?

 

[Anjaffm]

Thank you, DaveOno
And on the subject of butts - this is what I say to "public health" and their silly stupid lies: http://i.imgur.com/gvjjFKz.png

Oh, and the "Yoda speak" comes from a slovenly Google translation of German sentence structure. We really talk like Yoda "If you no longer to smoke want, then you must e-cigarettes try"

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

Anja, I'd have to replace the second line on your link with KISS IT.