... and if the practice causes anxiety, don't do it. Anxiety is known to be deadly to your circulatory system. You do have a brain and a choice. Use it. Make it.
You could try looking up the ingediant of the e-liquid you smoke like I did. I did not find any cancer causing ingediants in the e-liquid I use.
You need to check all your food and medicine for the same ingrediants. If you brush your teeth you are inhaleing the vapors off your toothpaste, the same with everything you ingest, some of the vapors off of food makes it to our lungs.
Be sure to quit using perfume and colonge, unless you check the ingrediants. O! don't forget deordant.
We consume worse stuff everyday than is in E-liquid, some of the perservates in food are terrible, and the really worse is fast food or supermarket bakery goods.
oh great I finally, after spending all this time reading, come out and say a few things and this is what I get in a response. Damn i hope this wasn't to lengthy for you.
oh great I finally, after spending all this time reading, come out and say a few things and this is what I get in a response. Damn i hope this wasn't to lengthy for you.
If theyre worried about products from China, they'd better stop buying foods and prescription medicines. Many foods and prescription meds have ingredients that are made in China. I dont know about Canada, but here in the U.S. the only time they have to label foods with country of origin is when it's a single ingredient food (such as produce). Foods with multiple ingredients are exempt from country of origin requirements because the ingredients often come from a variety of countries. (ie: the sugar in an item may be a mix of sugar from both the U.S. and Brazil)
You could label their concerns as tunnel vision.
Batteries - how are you going to get cancer from those? Are you eating them?
Maybe they give off a strange power.8-o I'm wondering if I should wear a foil hat when I vape.
Glycol - it's approved for use in inhalers. That doesnt mean it's safe, but it does mean that the govt considers it safe-enough.
I think there is a lot of blind optimism going on in this thread. I, like most of you, assume that vaping is healthier than smoking from a common sense perspective. However, with the small amount of research done there is no way to absolutely know for sure. The only substance in an e-cig that I am completely comfortable with is nicotine, because I know what that does.
From the post on propylene glycol:
"Chronic exposure: Lactic acidosis, stupor, and seizures have been reported following chronic ingestion.
Aggravation of Pre-existing conditions: Kidney disorders "
I don't know why only the "inhalation" was made bold. Inhalation may be safe but chronic exposure may not be. An let's face it, by replacing smoking with vaping we are signing up for chronic exposure to pg. This is a big unknown because I don't think anyone can be 100% positive that long term, chronic use of pg (or vg for that matter) is actually safe.
Besides this, getting juice from unknown Chinese sources is a little unsettling. Take out the Chinese--getting anything from any unknown source and inhaling chronically is a little unsettling.
Then there's the unknown ingredients. I wonder what's in that juice giving it that great flavor? Sure, vape tastes great but is that flavor good for your lungs when they are chronically exposed to it??? Who knows. I've yet to see a post where anyone even seems to know what goes into the flavorings of most online-bought juices.
So at the end of the day... we're really all just lab rats. No one can know for sure whether or not this is actually a good idea. We can all assume that its good for our own peace of mind. But deep down... no one knows for sure.
This Forum is Pro E-Cigs not Anti.
If you want to Post Anti E-Cig disinformation there are plenty of other Internet Forums where you will be welcome.
I'm saving money and I can smoke indoors if I really want to... why quit something I really enjoy??"
wow..this is a BAD attitude!!
There is NOTHING wrong with asking such questions...and i do NOT think such questions have their own place in some "special" sub-forum where hardly anyone reads them. This would be ignorance at its best.