Actually, organic flavorings are not safer. There are many unsafe substances in organic flavors such as diacetyls, etc. which are naturally occurring, and unlike in synthetic flavors where that stuff can be replaced or taken out in the lab, mother nature puts stuff in organic flavorings that are not removed.
I personally also have a concern for naturally occuring fruit sugars and such.
There is quite a lot of information about this in several topics around here.
there are also many vapers here who vape flavorless.
I guess I don't understand why anyone would make fun of people's efforts to be as healthy as they can be, and do whatever they feel will move them closer to that........ even if they are former smokers? What? Are former smokers supposed to be "doomed" in some way, from ulitimately living very healthy lifestyles?
I'm an organic nazi, I admit it. All my food is organic and most of my clothes are organic cotton. My main reason is not my health, but the health of the planet. Do some research on the effects of genetically modified cotton in India- farmers are killing themselves left and right because they can't afford the insecticides needed for GMO cotton, and can't afford to buy seeds every year (GMO seeds are sterile).
That said, I really do my best to not get all high and mighty and preachy about it. For the most part I keep my mouth shut, unless someone asks a direct question, like OP. It's such a personal choice- where do we draw the line? All of us drew one at analogs, and I think we all remember feeling like pariahs when we were smokers. Nobody has the right to judge what anyone else vapes, or doesn't vape. I do what I do because for me it's the right choice.
The very reason that nothing is healthy for you, like drinking water, is BECAUSE we've been dumping pesticides, insecticides and loads of toxic chemicals into the environment. Personally, I chose to not support companies that do this, as best I can.
For me, the reasons to support organic flavor companies is more out of environmental concern than my own.
Actually, organic flavorings are not safer. There are many unsafe substances in organic flavors such as diacetyls, etc. which are naturally occurring, and unlike in synthetic flavors where that stuff can be replaced or taken out in the lab, mother nature puts stuff in organic flavorings that are not removed.
Do you have proof showing that organic flavors are not safer? Any diacetyls present would be naturally occurring (if diacetyl is added, the product cannot be USDA organic)- and that is a very, very tiny amount. The studies I believe you are referencing refer to inhaling butter flavoring vapor at movie theaters, which is a very large, continuous dose of diacetyl over years.
"Mother Nature puts stuff in organic flavorings that are not removed." What, exactly, does she put in? Most flavors are derived by making extracts from the original source- like raspberries. There is nothing "put in" except raspberries- and plenty is removed in the extraction process. I gotta say, I'm much more concerned about what profiteering chemical companies use than about what Mother Nature provides.
Personally I'd rather inhale some unknown substance from Mother Nature than some unknown chemical. People have been smoking "Mother Nature," probably hundreds of species of plants, molds, wood, etc. for millions of years, the effects are pretty well known. Chemicals though, only have a track record of a decade or so- far too short a time to be deemed safe.
