My jeep windows are filmed up and foggy... took me a bit to figure out that it was from vaping. Better than it smelling like smoke!
Anyone noticed a "film" on windows where you vape?
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It's likely propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin residue. This won't accumulate in your lungs, because both propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin are 100% water soluble and hydrophilic, which means that there will be zero accumulation in any open system that is water based; e.g., your body. In other words, the propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin is quickly dissolved into your body and goes the way of all other metabolic waste. The EPA recently did a report on the toxicity levels of propylene glycol to re-certify it for use in air conditioning units and air purifiers. It found that there was no level of chronic toxicity, and that acute toxicity occurred in rats after they orally ingested 3,600 to 20,000mg per pound of body weight. It found no level of acute toxicity for skin or eye irritation, and stated 5 times that "there are no endpoints for concern for oral, dermal, or inhalation exposure to propylene glycol." I wrote up a summary here: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo.../367917-safety-inhaling-propylene-glycol.html, which also contains a link to the original document issued by the EPA.
At any rate, since the atmosphere inside your car and inside your office are not water-based systems, there is no natural mechanism for dissolving buildup.
Incidentally, I've read that nicotine is absorbed more slowly with vapor than with smoking. If this is true, I have a theory to explain this: The nicotine is dissolved into a propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin base. This enters the lungs and takes several minutes to dissolve into the bloodstream, resulting in a delay of the nicotine absorption (as opposed to smoke, where the nicotine intake by the lungs is instantaneous).
At any rate, since the atmosphere inside your car and inside your office are not water-based systems, there is no natural mechanism for dissolving buildup.
Incidentally, I've read that nicotine is absorbed more slowly with vapor than with smoking. If this is true, I have a theory to explain this: The nicotine is dissolved into a propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin base. This enters the lungs and takes several minutes to dissolve into the bloodstream, resulting in a delay of the nicotine absorption (as opposed to smoke, where the nicotine intake by the lungs is instantaneous).
When I smoked, cleaning my car windows was a nasty chore that turned paper towels brown. Now, even though there is a film, the paper towel stays its original colour.
Incidentally, the windows in my car had accumulated enough film on the inside to make it kind of annoying to drive at night, because headlights would make the film on the car windows highly visible. Last night, it was 70 degrees when I was leaving work, so I rolled my windows down.
Within 30 minutes the film was 100% gone.
Where I live it's quite humid, and my guess is that propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin readily dissolved in the water in copious amounts of air that brushed passed them on the highway. But who knows. Now I know what to do next time the film begins to build up.
Within 30 minutes the film was 100% gone.
Where I live it's quite humid, and my guess is that propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin readily dissolved in the water in copious amounts of air that brushed passed them on the highway. But who knows. Now I know what to do next time the film begins to build up.
I get the film too. In every car I drive for more than a couple of days.
Man, I really hate cleaning inside windshields.
Man, I really hate cleaning inside windshields.
Yep, mostly in the car like everyone else. It complements the dog nose prints quite nicely.
I don't get much of a film in my car on the windows because, well, I just don't go anywhere much in my car. But on my eyeglasses? Oy vey.. what a mess. I have to wash them every single day. I cannot STAND for my glasses to even bee the tiniest bit dirty.
~Tiger
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I have to admit that when I was a smoker, I was lax about keeping the windshield...inside AND out, clean.
And yup...
Driving at night was the worst.
That haze!
I thought ghosts were chasing me
And yup...
Driving at night was the worst.
That haze!
I thought ghosts were chasing me
....and as a newbie, here I thought that I was the only one that experienced this. I keep some windex wipes and paper towels in the glove compartment just for this.
Sure beats the disgustingness of the analogs in the car!!!
Sure beats the disgustingness of the analogs in the car!!!
The film has been there a few months now. Just too lazy to clean it. My car gets a haze after a few weeks. I have had to keep the windows closed since it is so cold out
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