Thank you for all the kind comments and im aware this ran a bit long. Data requires time, and i wanted to make sure all the doctors points came across.
This needs a big bump. I just found and watched this show. Not sure how I missed it until now, but May and June were crazy busy for me.
Dimitris, in my opinion this is the
best and most important vaping show yet done, in terms of the safety and physiological impact of vaping vs smoking. Three huge and sustained cheers for you, Vape Team, and especially Dr. K. The work Dr. K did and cited is a detailed tour de force of almost all aspects of vaping that we have all been wondering about. He was so masterful at combining studies of many other researchers, so intelligent about how he chose his sample groups, so technologically advanced with his echo imaging (have never seen this until now), and so passionate about negating the silly and threatening gov't rhetoric. I am truly blown away.
And so very happy! He answered
so many questions I have had since starting vaping, and so well! As a chemist, I have long suspected that while we may go through milliliters of e-juice a day, if we are vaping with a device meant to produce a lot of visible vapor, we are getting but a small fraction of the nicotine present in the liquid...unless of course we hold our breath after taking a hit. And the physiological risk of vaping a clean and pure e-juice (no TSNAs from sloppy nic extraction) are so negligible as to be a non-issue. This aspect I did not know, and it was always in the back of my mind. "Well it ain't as bad a smoking analogs" never cut it for me completely. On the subject of health and safety his presentation was a validating and
thunderous slam dunk.
I am also completely in agreement with him with what he says about flavors, and I was really happy when Lou asked about this. Flavors are, in fact, the biggest uncertainty we have in vaping, and there are thousands of flavor compounds with a huge variety of chemical properties, many of which are completely unknown in terms of long-term inhalation. Most are probably safe, but recipes can be made from many different compounds (strawberry flavoring is actually 50+ different chemicals), and we simply do not know how they affect us. Focusing on one or two, like diacetyl, and thinking that removing that flavoring will make all right is simply very naive thinking. I have been doing what he does for a long time now: DIY, VG, unflavored or very minimal flavoring. Besides, flavor perception is very fickle. It's so easy and normal to saturate taste and olfactory centers with too much flavor. I vape unflavored 90% of the time, and then when I vape something with 2% flavoring (normal flavors, not the new concentrated ones), that flavor is so pleasant, and not heavy like most commercial juices are.
In fact, this video and presentation was so good, so uplifting for me, and so important for the vaping consumers and industry, that it suddenly makes all the other videos of crazy PVs, variable voltage, tanks, etc, even better than they were before...because it is now scientifically shown:
go ahead and vape, it will do you no harm!
And I think I'm going to get a Lava Tube now. Talk about an endorsement! I wonder if sales for this mod have increased since you aired this.
This is the best thing I have seen in vaping media yet. You, the Team, and especially Dr. K, have validated the entire technology. The only thing that would make this better, in terms of the science, is that it is peer reviewed and published in a reputable journal. That it has been accepted for an oral presentation at a huge cardio conference is excellent. Perhaps he will inform us about the response and interest he gets.
This video should be a sticky! Perhaps it should be further edited as Dr. K does repeat himself. Or perhaps it could be divided into smaller parts. I know this would be more work, but I think it is that important for all to be able to see this easily.
You have made my vaping 100x more pleasurable than it was before seeing this. A million thanks, Dimitris!
