Flavor e-liquids.. What is in them exactly??

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Talyon

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I am new to vaping and I am wanting to know what is in the flavors companies put out. I am hesitant to inhale things that I don't know what is in them. And the companies that sell them do not like to say exactly what is in them. I would like to know exactly what is in them.

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I assume u smoke? And if so do u know what's in them? There's many things we intake and don't really know what's in them etc.

To my knowledge it's food grade flavoring, which can be purchased at grocery stores, now I'm not saying that's all cause that is all that I've read. I don't DIY or I would know a bit more, and the thing is even with food grade flavoring etc like in my starting statement do we really know what's in most things. Hope u get a satisfactory answer.

The most importance thing to me is I'm 4000 times better off with Vapeing then Smoking. Peace. Enjoy your stay.
 

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I assume u smoke? And if so do u know what's in them? There's many things we intake and don't really know what's in them etc.

To my knowledge it's food grade flavoring, which can be purchased at grocery stores, now I'm not saying that's all cause that is all that I've read. I don't DIY or I would know a bit more, and the thing is even with food grade flavoring etc like in my starting statement do we really know what's in most things. Hope u get a satisfactory answer.

The most importance thing to me is I'm 4000 times better off with Vapeing then Smoking. Peace. Enjoy your stay.

No I don't smoke for that reason. But I see vaping is not bad for your health, so I want to know the ingredients before I start.
 

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That was one of my worries, also, when I first looked into vaping. But the more I read about it, the more I concluded that even if there are things in the e-liquids that are bad, at least there are LESS of them than in "regular" cigarettes. I read one report that said when they analyzed the ingredients of one e-liquid, they found 14 substances that are known to cause cancer or which were known toxins. That sounded pretty bad until I read the following: "Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. These cigarette ingredients include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT." Granted, it depends on who you get the information from, as to how bad cigarettes are, but no one will argue that formaldehyde and cyanide haven't been found in cigarettes because it's been so widely published and reported, time and time again. I'll take the 14.
 

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That was one of my worries, also, when I first looked into vaping. But the more I read about it, the more I concluded that even if there are things in the e-liquids that are bad, at least there are LESS of them than in "regular" cigarettes. I read one report that said when they analyzed the ingredients of one e-liquid, they found 14 substances that are known to cause cancer or which were known toxins. That sounded pretty bad until I read the following: "Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. These cigarette ingredients include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT." Granted, it depends on who you get the information from, as to how bad cigarettes are, but no one will argue that formaldehyde and cyanide haven't been found in cigarettes because it's been so widely published and reported, time and time again. I'll take the 14.

And of those 14 were they just detectable or measurable, and if measurable to what % compared to smoke?
 

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No I don't smoke for that reason. But I see vaping is not bad for your health, so I want to know the ingredients before I start.

Inhaling anything but air comes with risks.
Vaping greatly reduces health risks compared to inhaling the toxins & carcinogens burning tobacco contains.
It is more accurately considered tobacco harm reduction that can be successfully used as a method to stop smoking.

As far as it 'not being bad for your health' any foreign matter inhaled into lung tissue other than air isn't 'good' for you and comes with possible health risks and side effects.
 
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Fwiw, I agree with those that have said 'anything into your lungs but air' is not healthy!

Even "certified organic flavors" and bases are not really & truly "natural" (in fact, there are MANY substances allowed in 'organics' that most people would never consider to be healthy or truly organic).

Most people consider vegetable glycerine to be "natural"...but it's not found anywhere in nature in the form in which we use it.

From here: What Is Vegetable Glycerin? (with pictures)

>>>Glycerol forms the “backbone” of many lipids, or oils and fats, and there are various processes that can be used to extract it from these substances. Most glycerin is made as a by-product of the manufacture of soap. In this process, either animal fat or vegetable oil can be used. It is heated with a strong alkali, usually caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), which produces soap and a solution of glycerin in water. This solution is then purified by distillation.

Vegetable glycerin can also be made directly from vegetable oil — often coconut or palm oil — by heating it to a high temperature under pressure with water. The glycerin backbone splits off from the fatty acids, and is absorbed by the water, from which it is then isolated and distilled to obtain the pure product. Food-grade vegetable glycerin is 99.7% pure, with the remaining 0.3% being water.<<<


Also, VG is a humectant (basically, it draws water/moisture to itself). It's used in many skin care products as a moisturizer, because it draws water from deep in the skin to itself when applied to the top layer of skin (which means, it actually dries the skin). It's also used in cough/throat remedies to 'soothe' - and it works (but again, it actually worsens the cause of the dryness or irritation by pulling moisture from deep in the very area where it's needed most).

For those of us that are addicted, this is (allegedly & hopefully) less harmful that sucking in hot tar. But I would never suggest that vaping or smoking is healthy in ANY way.
 
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