I'm so sick of concerned friends and family!

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pamdis

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Send them this, you can also look up your brand on any of the tobacco websites. This is for the brand I used to smoke. Note at the end where they state they are not listing all the stuff that's at .1% or less. Someone else in this thread has linked to that, so you can include that link for them too.

From Phillip Morris Website:
Our tobacco Ingredients by Brand list identifies principal and flavor ingredients that are either commonly known or added to tobacco at levels of 0.1% or more of the weight of the tobacco rod (the column of tobacco in each cigarette) for our cigarettes sold in the U.S.

The ingredients in the Tobacco Ingredients by Brand list are identified in descending order by weight.

Tobacco
Water
Sugars (Sucrose and/or Invert Sugar and/or High Fructose Corn Syrup)
Propylene Glycol
Glycerol

Menthol
Licorice Extract
Diammonium Phosphate
Cocoa and Cocoa Products
Ammonium Hydroxide
Carob Bean and Extract
Natural and Artificial Flavors
Philip Morris USA manufactures its cigarettes in a variety of lengths. Cigarette length descriptors are used to identify our different products. These length descriptors include (in order of increasing product length) 72mm, Kings, 100's and 120's.

There are other ingredients added to tobacco at levels less than 0.1% in PM USA cigarettes, including the natural and artificial flavors that give each brand its unique characteristics (the brand recipe), as well as ingredients in the non-tobacco components. Please see the View Tobacco and Flavor Ingredients for All PM USA Brands tab at the top and the View Non-Tobacco Component Ingredients for All PM USA Brands tab for composite lists that include such additional ingredients.

My E-cig ingredients:
Nicotine
Propylene Glycol
Vegetable Glycerin
Natural and Artificial Flavors

The nicotine is only one part of the tobacco, and glycerin is used to make glycerol.
My e-cig has nothing in it that I wasn't already smoking in my cigarettes.

So, please explain to me how the e-cig is more dangerous than the cigarette?
 
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Zippoz

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I too have had this problem, but mostly from people older than me. I think it has something to do with the fact that I was never addicted to smoking, but when I did I concealed it from my family. My grandmother accused me of doing drugs. My dad told me, "Don't smoke, I don't want to see you get addicted to something that can control your life and harm your health." When I told him that it wasn't smoking, he said, "It still has nicotine, [his girlfriend] quit smoking but now she is addicted to the gum." Or, "You don't know what is in there." Sorry, but I do! My mom is convinced it is unhealthy, but at least she now says, "at least it isn't smoking." My non-smoking friends don't understand why I do it when I was never addicted to cigarettes, and some of them think I will "become addicted." Luckily though, they leave me alone for the most part because they respect that I can make my own decisions. Every family should. My dad still hates it when I vape in his house though. Claims it smells awful and irritates his nose. Psh, whatever dad.
 

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Every time there is a news story about e-cigarettes I get bombarded with texts, calls, and facebook posts about some new hyped up danger. As these hypocrites suck down analogs, they feel compelled to try and get me off the "dangerous and risky habit of vaping".

Tell them "If you are going to quit riding in automobiles, then we'll talk. Until you quit that, you have no freaking right to complain about my vaping. Automobiles are by far the highest cause of accidental death, and you can't name a single person who has died of vaping".
 
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