FDA Health Canada using this forum to Ban/regulate

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dk2

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Both the FDA and Health Canada have toll free numbers setup for people to report side effects of using the e-cigarette, neither have toll free numbers setup to record positive user experiences of e-cigarettes use and the experienced health benefits. This should tell you something, the FDA and Health Canada are compiling reasons to present in their court battles for regulating or banning e-cigarette use. It is a one sided approach they are not concerned with the Health Benefits.

Please be careful what you post in the Health Section of this website and other websites that have similar sections as they can be used to benefit the FDA and Health Canada's cases against the use of ecigarettes.

It is important to share both positive and negative health effects of e-cigarette use.

Before positing consider the following:

Please make your self aware of the withdrawal symptoms associated with discontinuing the use of smoking tobacco products and the time period for said withdrawal symptoms. Don't confuse the withdrawal symptoms from smoked tobacco's 4000 plus chemicals with vaping usage.

If you are new to vaping, please don't jump on board and post outlandish statements, please consider all options and seek medical advice to determine the cause of your problem (it may have nothing to do with vaping).

If you feel strongly that vaping is causing this or that negative health effect and you continue to vape come back and report in the same thread a month later, six months later and a year later to let other's know whether or not that side effect still exists. Reporting your experiences over the long term is more beneficial to the community then simply stating an effect a day or two into vaping.
 

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According to such agencies they do not rely on such places as this for data because to them it is not clinical but anecdotal. Even if people who vape do post certain things that may arise from the use of e-cigs, 99% is just temporary like sore throat, dry skin, rashes and as you said some of that can be associated with the symptoms of when a person stops smoking. It is the 1% though, that like other things, that are serious. It is not really due to the extended use of the product but from bad e-liquid or from nicotine overdose. If you flood an e-cig and get some of the liquid in your mouth(and many do) better find a place to spit it out and then wash your mouth out with water. To much nicotine can really mess with you.

It is not good to hide these things, but to make people aware of what "may" occur with the use of them. We do not all react the same way to the things we do. Unlike big tobacco that lies and is deceitful, I do not believe we should, as a community, do the same.
 

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99% of the concerns posted in here have to do with symptoms that appear to be congruent with withdrawal, too much nicotine, synchronous and almost certainly unrelated disorders (like the fellow whose lungs bled - after several posts it became clear that this had been a problem before he vaped), brief and medically insignificant symptoms like dry mouth, or very occasional allergies. These can all be misconstrued, of course - by anxious consumers, and even by misinformed doctors at this point. I'd really like to see a thread collating anecdotal reports from long-term (as long as they've been around, or at least a year) vapers... someone else mentioned that. Again, it'd be hard to tease out incidental variables, especially in a group comprised almost exclusively of long-term ex-smokers, but it might dispel some of the angst about these issues.
 

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99% of the concerns posted in here have to do with symptoms that appear to be congruent with withdrawal, too much nicotine, synchronous and almost certainly unrelated disorders (like the fellow whose lungs bled - after several posts it became clear that this had been a problem before he vaped), brief and medically insignificant symptoms like dry mouth, or very occasional allergies.

I agree, except you forgot one: psychosomatic disorders. ;)
 
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