Disinformation still being peddled out by Health Professionals

[AnthonyB]

I went to the dentist last week and mentioned that I vape and her assistant said that electronic cigarettes are worse than normal cigarettes.

This concerned me because smoking damages teeth more than almost anything else can so hearing a dentist or their assistant warding people off e-cigs on account of misinformation that they are worse than cigarettes was very troubling.

I asked her what the source was of her belief about the damage caused by e-cigs and I quickly ascertained she was referring to popcorn lung caused by diketones even though she couldn't remember where she read it.

I had to advise her that diketones were a concern and vendors have moved quickly to have their liquids tested for diketones and removed or greatly reduced diketones by altering the mixtures of their liquids.

The second point I made was that diketones are but one harmful chemical in e-juice and perhaps the most harmful one and yet, it can't compared to the 400 main chemicals in cigarettes with 60 of them being known carcinogens.

There is still widespread misguidance and disinformation out there about e-liquids and that includes health professionals like dentists !


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[kross8]

I went to the dentist last week and mentioned that I vape and her assistant said that electronic cigarettes are worse than normal cigarettes.

This concerned me because smoking damages teeth more than almost anything else can so hearing a dentist or their assistant warding people off e-cigs on account of misinformation that they are worse than cigarettes was very troubling.

I asked her what the source was of her belief about the damage caused by e-cigs and I quickly ascertained she was referring to popcorn lung caused by diketones even though she couldn't remember where she read it.

I had to advise her that diketones were a concern and vendors have moved quickly to have their liquids tested for diketones and removed or greatly reduced diketones by altering the mixtures of their liquids.

The second point I made was that diketones are but one harmful chemical in e-juice and perhaps the most harmful one and yet, it can't compared to the 400 main chemicals in cigarettes with 60 of them being known carcinogens.

There is still widespread misguidance and disinformation out there about e-liquids and that includes health professionals like dentists !


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Do Cigarettes contain diacetyl?
That fact: All conventional cigarettes produce tobacco smoke that contains diacetyl, and the levels of diacetyl in cigarettes are a lot higher than those produced by e-cigarettes. ... They found that the average diacetyl content of the cigarettes tested was 335.9 micrograms per cigarette.

 

[kross8]

I went to the dentist last week and mentioned that I vape and her assistant said that electronic cigarettes are worse than normal cigarettes.

This concerned me because smoking damages teeth more than almost anything else can so hearing a dentist or their assistant warding people off e-cigs on account of misinformation that they are worse than cigarettes was very troubling.

I asked her what the source was of her belief about the damage caused by e-cigs and I quickly ascertained she was referring to popcorn lung caused by diketones even though she couldn't remember where she read it.

I had to advise her that diketones were a concern and vendors have moved quickly to have their liquids tested for diketones and removed or greatly reduced diketones by altering the mixtures of their liquids.

The second point I made was that diketones are but one harmful chemical in e-juice and perhaps the most harmful one and yet, it can't compared to the 400 main chemicals in cigarettes with 60 of them being known carcinogens.

There is still widespread misguidance and disinformation out there about e-liquids and that includes health professionals like dentists !


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i recently had someone who was preaching to me about all the popcorn lung patients his gf (nurse) was seeing. i replied if it was as large as he was making it out to be,, then it would be on the news....and that more than likely his gf was seeing smokers who may or may not vape.........and its cold/flu season.

 

[SteveS45]

I when I hear someone especially in the Health Care Industries who is misinformed I do my best to educate them and also request the source of their information. Most times it was what they heard and have no reputable source to provide.

 

[Eskie]

I spent some time with a good friend who's a pulmonary specialist in Boston. He had some familiarity with vaping, but after some chatting and a demo of how stuff works he's going to recommend it as another way for his pulmonary patients to stop smoking. His reaction was even if it only reduced risk by 50% it's an awful lot better than smoking. There are health care professionals who are open to accurate information and willing to adjust their thinking.

 

[SteveS45]

Oh there are some people in Healthcare who actually are knowledgeable and are X-Smokers who vape and they also run into the same misinformation but some have an easier time making colleagues change their opinions.