Is smoking harmful to health or at least less harmful than normal cigs?

[Patrick-Star]

Hi everybody,

I am new the the whole e-cig szene so please forgive my "stupid" question

Are e-cigarettes harmful to health? Ther is no tar in it right?

If they are harmful, are they at least less harmful than normal cigarettes?

Thanks in advance for your answers...

 

[malyden]

There is no tar because there is no burning. Here are some places to start
About CASAA.org
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf
Ecigarette mist harmless, inhaled or exhaled

 

[tigerlily]

I suggest you follow up on the links provided by malyden.

E-cigs are fairly new, so there is no definitive answer as to the long term effects of vaping. However, logic dictates that it is safer than cigarettes due to the fact that you are inhaling fewer chemicals. There have been no indications that vaping is dangerous.

From my own personal experience, I can tell you that I feel much healthier now. My biggest health issue with smoking was with sinus problems. Since I quit smoking my sinuses have cleared up. I no longer have the issues I had previously. I breathe better, I sleep better, no more sore throat, no more hacking up phlegm, no more nausea caused by sinus drainage. You get the point.

In the long run, I know vaping instead of smoking may prolong my life. COPD runs in my family. I've seen several family members suffer from this devastating disease. If I continue to smoke I will undoubtedly have to endure the effects of COPD.

Although we can't be absolutely sure that vaping for several decades is perfectly safe, I am more than willing to take my chances. If I were to continue smoking cigarettes I would have no chance.

 

[DaveP]

So far, there have been no adverse effects found by studies and the FDA could only find trace carcinogens as compared to tobacco cigs. The trace carcinogens were about equal to nicorette gum. There is no burning of the juice, only warming to a vapor point.

You'd think after 2-3 years of vaping that at least one study would be able to find a problem. None have surfaced so far. That doesn't mean that there's no danger, only that people who want to ban anything that resembles smoking would find the problem if it were obvious.

 

[CES]

I like this link as well.7 Biggest Electronic Cigarette Myths - Kristen did a nice job of addressing misconceptions about e-cigs

 

[Raymond Go Ho]

I suggest that you stopped smoking and do vaping. I feel healthy now after not smoking for 3 days. and my taste is back to normal. When I wake up, I taste the foul taste of my tongue already, when i was smoking didn't feel that my tongue was ..... this is some healthy .... happening here you know. when i'm about to sleep, i always have trouble because i was coughing too much, but now it's gone. i feel that i'm healthier men.

 

[Soonerfan]

My doctor recommended them to me as an healthier alternative to smoking. I had pneumonia that started before Thanksgiving and lasted until I quit analogs and started vaping. I had gone through 3 rounds of different antibiotics and had a nebulizer brought to my home. I was really ill. I had lost my voice and was not getting any better. Within a week of getting off analogs and switching to vaping, I was greatly improved. Now, my voice has returned to normal, I no longer am coughing, I can breathe so much better and I have a lot more energy. I think my return to much better health says it all about vaping. I realize we don't know the long term effects of e-cigs but I do not think they are nearly as harmful as analogs.

 

[Tol]

i like this link as well.7 biggest electronic cigarette myths - kristen did a nice job of addressing misconceptions about e-cigs

great link!

 

[Griffin]

I like this link as well.7 Biggest Electronic Cigarette Myths - Kristen did a nice job of addressing misconceptions about e-cigs

Thank you for that! Gonna print it out and keep a copy with me at all times!

 

[pfaber11]

I'll be making my own e liquid from cheap snuff if and when they ban it. Snuff contains about thirty mg of nicotine per gram and costs eighty three pence for twelve point five grams so should be cost effective. Just got to figure out how to extract it. Glad you're feeling much better.

 

[Korean Kodiak]

I like this link as well.7 Biggest Electronic Cigarette Myths - Kristen did a nice job of addressing misconceptions about e-cigs

Thank you for the link , I posted it to my facebook for my friends.

 

[Rosa]

My doctor recommended them to me as an healthier alternative to smoking. I had pneumonia that started before Thanksgiving and lasted until I quit analogs and started vaping. I had gone through 3 rounds of different antibiotics and had a nebulizer brought to my home. I was really ill. I had lost my voice and was not getting any better. Within a week of getting off analogs and switching to vaping, I was greatly improved. Now, my voice has returned to normal, I no longer am coughing, I can breathe so much better and I have a lot more energy. I think my return to much better health says it all about vaping. I realize we don't know the long term effects of e-cigs but I do not think they are nearly as harmful as analogs.

THAT ROCKS!! I love it when doctors get on board. Unfortunately, many doctors just blindly follow whatever the FDA says regardless of common reasoning.

I'll be making my own e liquid from cheap snuff if and when they ban it. Snuff contains about thirty mg of nicotine per gram and costs eighty three pence for twelve point five grams so should be cost effective. Just got to figure out how to extract it. Glad you're feeling much better.

You can youtube it, I saw this woman make some on a youtube video and it came out really dark like molasses.

 

[[amp]]

My doctor actually suggested that I give ecigs a try too and Im glad I did. Iv had stomach problems my whole life and in the last year or so its gotten really bad. All kinds of tests, a couple trips to the ER & almost constant pain was what I was dealing with. A little over a month a ago I tried & switched to ecigs and almost like magic my stomach troubles went away. Now its not 100% or anything I still get flare ups of IBS from time to time but its been way better. Like Soonerfan said "my return to much better health says it all about vaping" and I feel the same way.

 

[Patrick-Star]

There is no tar because there is no burning. Here are some places to start
About CASAA.org
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf
Ecigarette mist harmless, inhaled or exhaled

Thank you for the great link!

 

[Patrick-Star]

I like this link as well.7 Biggest Electronic Cigarette Myths - Kristen did a nice job of addressing misconceptions about e-cigs

Also a good one. Thank you very much.

 

[Rosa]

And here's a really recent one from Lawyers FDA blog:

E-Cigarette Study Suggests Relative Safety - FDA Lawyers Blog

 

[gotch23]

Yes, great links everyone.

Although e-smoking is almost sure to be way less harmful than regular cigarettes, i think you still want to pay attention to what is in your e-juice. Take diacetyl for example. It is stuff that is used in some food flavourings and also ends up in some e-juices. If inhaled in extremely high doses on a regular basis (popcorn factory before issues with inhaling diacetyl were know) it can lead to serious lung issues.

Luckily most major e-juice manufacturers are aware of this possible risk and state on their website whether or not their juice contain diacetyl. Most state they have removed it from all their juices others point out which still contain diacetyl. It is not even clear if diacetyl in the doses inhaled while vaping poses any risk at all.

Anyway here is a link to a statement from the very reputable flavouring/e-juice company flavourart, which i think explains very well why diacetyl might be a concern, and which of their flavourings contain diacetyl (it's in english of course):

Diacetile - Flavourart. La sartoria degli aromi

I don't want to bash flavourart, btw. Bear in my they are originally a food flavouring company and since there is no harm in ingesting diacetyl orally, they aren't to be critized for some of their products still containing that stuff. In the interest of their growing fanbase amongst vapers they are working towards clearing their range totally from that stuff.