I have heard so many conflicting stories about weather its safe or not to inhale the vapour released from a electric cigarette.
I have heard that tests have been found to show that there is chemicals found in the electric ciggie which is present in anti-freeze.
There's a lot of crap floating around out there about the alleged "dangers" of e-cigs but it's being pushed by people who are... well... they're a curious bunch. While they're rabidly anti-nicotine and tobacco, what happens to their little campaign if smokers switch in large numbers to a safer nicotine delivery system?
Such as in Sweden, the adoption Snus saw a
massive drop in lung cancer among men (women didn't adopt Snus for whatever reasons). I mean huge numbers. You would have thought this would have been all over the place, being heralded as a way to save thousands (if not millions) of lives. Instead, the EU banned it.
You tell me what the motivations are.
The "studies" that have detected trace amounts of scary sounding chemicals like to neglect to tell you that the
very same chemicals can be found in such things as the nicotine inhaler which is pushed as a "quit smoking" device. They also don't bother to compare amounts found with, oh, you know, cigarettes. Which have formaldehyde, anti-freeze, cyanide, and other serious chemicals in far, far greater amounts. So even if those studies are correct (the few in question are disputed), which is better? Tiny amounts of the chemicals or large amounts?
(I mean, come on... CYANIDE??? I smoked over 30 years and had no idea.)
There is also some "sleight of hand" going on here. Propylene Glycol (PG) which is used to create the vapor in many "e-cigs" (more appropriately "personal vaporizer") actually is an anti-freeze. It's also considered non-toxic and used in such things as asthma inhalers, medicines, consumer products you probably have in your house right now and use all the time.
Saying there's "anti-freeze" in an e-cig is actually pretty silly. Yeah, there is. Duh. PG is an anti-freeze. One that is, mind you, fed to cattle during the winter to protect them from the cold (no, really, it is). Heh, my actual first encounter with PG was when I was trying to set up a solar water heater (ran outta money unfortunately). PG is the fluid you use to do the heat transfer because it's non-toxic and if it leaks into your drinking water, it's not going to hurt you.
The disturbing thing about this is that some people benefit from smokers developing cancer. The treatment of cancer in the US is around a $100 billion per year industry. There's profit to be protected. I've seen European vapers wonder if the tax revenue from tobacco is driving some of the scare tactics about e-cigs. I'm not one for "conspiracy theories" but the truth is, there are incentives to keep smokers right where they are. Sell them "cessation" products we know do not work (the average quit rate is around 6%... that means we're talking a failure rate in 90% territory so you get "repeat business" as smokers try again and again and again then, when they get cancer, you sell cancer treatments... in the mean time, you collect taxes... everybody wins... um... except us).
(And don't get me started about the big tobacco lawsuits in the US. The settlements were in the tens of billions... um... tens of thousands of millions? I forget the difference between the US/UK billion verses trillion thing. Used to know that. Anyway, huge amounts of money. How much went to smokers? Zero dollars and zero cents. I can't tell you where all the money went exactly. I just know those of us actually harmed by tobacco got nothing.)
I have always thought that nicotine was completely harmless but very addictive.
I think the evidence backs you p.
I'd rather smoke the electric cigarette as long though as its safe to smoke but there's lack of evidence.
If anybody out there has had any side effects or heard anything posior negative about the effects of vapouring then I'd like to know
Well, here's the thing. It's saf
er. "Vaping" (as it's called around here) has only been around about ten years now. Far as long term effects, nobody can tell you. There has not been a "long term" yet.
But other than the nicotine, the ingredients are innocuous things. Such as the flavorings. I'm getting more into doing my own liquid mixes and you know where you get the flavors? Places that sell cooking supplies for baking and candy making. Yeah, you give kids stuff with the flavorings we use in our liquids. The base liquids PG and VG are recognized as "generally safe for humans" by every regulatory body on the planet and used in more products than I could list in a post. PG is widely used in hospitals to deliver medications. Even in vaporized form! It's one way to deliver medication into the lungs. So if it's not safe... what's that about?
No one can promise you vaping is "perfectly safe". What we can tell you is smoking is really bad and vaping is much safer. If you are able to quit nicotine entirely and neither smoke nor vape, great, good for you. But if you're like me and every attempt over the last 30 years has failed, well, now what? Keep smoking?
Vaping is certainly safer than smoking. And studies keep coming out backing that position up. Maybe decades from now, we'll find there are some bad sides to vaping. But I am betting my life (literally) that I have a much, much better chance of finding out what those effects are. At the rate I was going with smoking, I wasn't expecting to be around "decades more" (I'm 51 which isn't that old but I can see "old" from here
).
