Contest Time! Mountain Oak Vapors - Nothing But The Facts- CONTEST!

[JoanJ]

Dr. Richard Carmona, former U.S. Surgeon General under President Bush from 2002 to 2006, has joined njoy to advance smoking harm reduction. Dr. Carmona is a vocal opponent to smoking and second hand smoke and has worked hard to clear the air to improve the health of Americans.

He views electronic cigarettes as a viable harm reduction strategy but plans to work internally at njoy as their biggest critic to move the technology forward.

 

[whodat2112]

The funny thing about water vapor is that it…. vaporizes. Which means that it dissipates into thin air quite rapidly. Yes there are barely readable amounts of random elements that do get released when you exhale but unlike cigarette smoke that lingers around long enough for other people to catch it, water vapor dissipates extremely fast. Independent studies have been conducted which shows that the amount of trace nicotine that’s exhaled from an e-cigarette is completely non-existent.

 

[Sage-femme]

Fact: Bought my first e-cig kit over 9 months ago to prove it wouldn't work. Finished the pack of tobacco cigs then and never bought another. Looks like the vape was on me!

 

[Sage-femme]

Fact: My brother was waiting for me to fail. I didn't. He bought an e-cig kit and has been tobacco free 30 days yesterday.

 

[Sage-femme]

Fact: My mother has cried tears of joy for us both.

 

[whodat2112]

Myth #8: That still has nicotine in it and nicotine causes cancer

Sorry to disappoint but nicotine does not cause cancer. At all, nada…zilch. Nicotine is similar to caffeine in the way that it affects our brain but like caffeine it won’t cause cancer.

 

[Sage-femme]

I think we have come close to exhausting current research but this contest exercise has been extremely enlightening, encouraging and fun.

 

[whodat2112]

Myth #4: E-Cigarettes aren’t FDA approved and therefore aren’t safe

The FDA did a three year study on e-cigarettes and couldn’t find a legitimate reason to regulate them.

 

[MikeNice81]

Overly personal fact:

I actually get more kisses from my wife since I started vaping. She says it is because I don't taste like stale cigars and ashtrays.

 

[JoanJ]

Nicotine is addictive but so are many other substances. With vaping I am not harming those around me and there are much worse things I could be addicted to.

 

[JoanJ]

At low doses, nicotine potently enhances the actions of norepinephrine and dopamine in the brain, causing a drug effect typical of those of psychostimulants. At higher doses, nicotine enhances the effect of serotonin and opiate activity, producing a calming, pain-killing effect.

 

[whodat2112]

MYTH : E-cigarette products with nicotine are illegal in Canada.

FACT : There is no law stating that e-cigarette products with or without nicotine are illegal in Canada. These products are legal, regulated, consumer alternatives to smoking – and are legally sold, bought, owned and used as such in Canada.

 

[MikeNice81]

Glycolized air is not toxic in rats and monkeys even when at the atmospheric saturation point is reached.

With a view to determining the safety of employing the vapors of propylene glycol and triethylene glycol in atmospheres inhabited by human beings, monkeys and rats were exposed continuously to high concentrations of these vapors for periods of 12 to 18 months. Equal numbers of control animals were maintained under physically similar conditions. Long term tests of the effects on ingesting triethylene glycol were also carried out. The doses administered represented 50 to 700 times the amount of glycol the animal could absorb by breathing air saturated with the glycol. . .

The results of these experiments in conjunction with the absence of any observed ill effects in patients exposed to both triethylene glycol and propylene glycol vapors for months at a time, provide assurance that air containing these vapors in amounts up to the saturation point is completely harmless.

TESTS FOR THE CHRONIC TOXICITY OF PROPYLEXE GLYCOL AND TRIETHYLENE GLYCOL ON MONKEYS AND RATS BY VAPOR INHALATION AND ORAL ADMINISTRATION

 

[a wandering soul]

How does an e-cigarette work?"Nicotine or flavorings are dissolved into propylene glycol usually, though it's hard to know for sure because they're not regulated," explained smoking cessation expert Dr. Gordon Strauss, founder of QuitGroups and a psychiatrist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "Then, when heated, you can inhale the vapor."

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20140103/e-cigarettes-separating-fiction-from-fact?page=1

I can has tapatalked this.

 

[a wandering soul]

Although many e-cigarettes are designed to look like regular cigarettes, both Tindle and Strauss said they don't exactly replicate the smoking experience, particularly when it comes to the nicotine delivery. Most of the nicotine in e-cigarettes gets into the bloodstream through the soft tissue of your cheeks (buccal mucosa) instead of through your lungs, like it does with a tobacco cigarette.

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20140103/e-cigarettes-separating-fiction-from-fact?page=2


I can has tapatalked this.

 

[whodat2112]

MYTH : E-cigarettes are a smoking-cessation medicine.

FACT : E-cigarettes are not a “quit smoking” product. They allow users to continue their habit, but in a vastly safer way.

 

[a wandering soul]

Wherever they're used, though, he said it's unlikely that anyone would get more than a miniscule amount of nicotine secondhand from an e-cigarette.

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20140103/e-cigarettes-separating-fiction-from-fact?page=3

I can has tapatalked this.

 

[whodat2112]

MYTH : Flavours in e-cigarettes are unnecessary.

FACT : Flavours play a key role in discouraging e-cigarette users from returning to smoking – because users quickly realize that, comparatively, cigarette smoke tastes disgusting. Hence the wide variety of appealing flavours available in e-cigarettes is a very good thing. Without flavours, switching from smoking to using e-cigarettes would be much less appealing – and many current users fear they would return to smoking if flavours were prohibited.

Flavours in e-cigarettes are a deterrent to smoking – not a gateway to it.

 

[whodat2112]

MYTH : E-cigarettes must be bad, since many anti-smoking groups oppose them.

FACT : The tobacco control industry (and it is an industry) has over the years become a very lucrative gravy train, well-funded by big pharma. If vast numbers of Canadian smokers switch to electronic cigarettes and no longer smoke, anti-smoking groups will soon have no further reason to exist. They are no more eager than Health Canada is to see smokers voluntarily switch in droves to an attractive, non-lethal consumer alternative to smoking.

Anti-smoking groups that oppose e-cigarettes do so due to their own financial self-interests, rather than legitimate health concerns.

 

[whodat2112]