Cinnamon, not as bad as we thought or just flawed study?

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Cinnamon flavours in e-cigarettes: how inappropriate research can misinform the public and the (amateur) professionals

I hope this video shows up, sometimes I'm quite the noob at linking things..... With all the recent hoo-ha over how awful cinnamon is supposed to be for us I found this to be some food for thought.


So anyway, apparently cinnamon flavored juice is probably not nearly as bad for you as the recent hype has said. Of course the recent study was performed by the Talbot Group which is one of the more prominent anti e-cig "researchers" out there.

The study they performed used 8 samples to get their results, none of the samples was used in an e-cig or even vaporized, they just used straight juice. The second problem is that 4 of the 8 samples were NOT even e-juice but concentrated cinnamon flavoring. Another issue was that they found cinnamon to be cytotoxic (toxic to cells in the body) at levels 400 times LESS that what the FDA considers safe. I'm sorry but I'm more apt to believe the multiple studies that the FDA has performed than one experiment conducted by a biased organization.

Another issue is that cigarette smoke is still 10 times more cytotoxic than cinnamon flavoring. Why don't they just straight up pull cigarettes off the market? The longer this "study" from Talbot is out the more holes in its methodology become apparent.
 

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I don't know one way or the other, and I don't like cinnamon anyway, but it's just an example of the fact that we don't know how safe/harmful vaping really is. I feel that it's much safer than smoking, and I feel better since I quit smoking.

Also, the FDA considers cinnamon to be safe for eating, not necessarily for vaping, since I don't think they've tested it for that. I'm pretty sure the cells in your lungs are less resilient than the cells in your mouth, though I could be wrong there. While it's a good idea to consider the source of the information, and take everything with a grain of salt, it's never a bad idea for people to ask the questions.
 
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