is vaping harmful for babies
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I vape around my kids all the time. I think the evidence is inconclusive, but vapor would have to be a damnsite better than cigarette smoke... Just my .02.
I would not vape or smoke around any infant, and am reluctant to do so around children. Vaping is unquestionably healthier than smoking, but the exhaled vapor does contain nicotine, and nicotine is extremely addictive.
I wouldn't go so far as to go outside, but I wouldn't vape in the same room with an infant.
I wouldn't go so far as to go outside, but I wouldn't vape in the same room with an infant.
Welcome to ECF! One, babies don't vape. Your header sure caught my attention though. LOL Two, there is no "smoke" in vaping. The substance is "vapor." Third, who knows? We don't even know if its safe for ourselves but what we do highly suspect is its safer than what's in smoke based on our experience, personal health improvement and the absence of the chemicals/tar contained in smoke. Given that, I can only say its not something I would risk in close proximity to a baby but then I wouldn't use air freshener or hairspray close to one either and would actually consider those more harmful to itty bitty lungs. I think that's just common sense really.
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I vape inside with my 3 year old. I don't blow it in her face or fog up the room she's in. But I'll take a few puffs when she's around.
Of course, more studies need to be done, but I'm not overly concerned.
CASAA: New study confirms that chemicals in electronic cigarettes pose minimal health risk
Of course, more studies need to be done, but I'm not overly concerned.
CASAA: New study confirms that chemicals in electronic cigarettes pose minimal health risk
If I had a kid I probably wouldn't really vape it around him, just to be safe and also not to influence him to be a smoker and/or a vaper!
I vape around my daughters (16 and 10 yr old) all the time. Same as others...I don't blow it in their face or cloud up a room. I never smoked around them though...always went outside.
When you consider that second hand smoke wasn't found to be harmful for kids around it (yes, you were lied to), probably not.
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/90/19/1440.full.pdf
This is the WHO's own study that they claimed was reason to start all the second hand smoke scare.
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/90/19/1440.full.pdf
This is the WHO's own study that they claimed was reason to start all the second hand smoke scare.
No nicotine isn't extremly addictive. No more than caffeine.
However i wouldn't vape around kids anyway. It feels wrong. And yes the second hand vapour will contain just a tiny bit of nicotine, about the same as a tomato or aubergini.
Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to mankind much more addictive than your normal "cuppa"
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I have two little nephews and I won't vape near them. They know I do and have seen me do it, but just out of common courtesy I won't do it in the same room with them. I typically vape 6mg and know that minute amounts of nicotine still exist in the exhaled vapor.
No it's not. That's yet another lie told by Tobacco Control.
Nicotine outside of smoke (i.e., patches, gum, ecigs) is not that addictive if at all.
I'd love to see your source on this. I believe you are overstating it greatly. Especially pure nicotine, not nicotine in cigarettes with 4,000 other chemicals to make it more addictive.
I would vape around a child, but if i wouldn't recommend vaping while pregnant, just because we don't know what the long term effects are.
That said, even then, as many people have said it is still probably preferable to smoking while pregnant.
That said, even then, as many people have said it is still probably preferable to smoking while pregnant.
Sorry, but that's a widely-believed fallacy. Studies that have looked specifically at nicotine have concluded it's not all that addictive.
Studies that have looked at cigarettes, on the other hand have found that they are very addictive. And the assumption that "it's the nicotine" is the basis for the legend that nicotine is highly addictive.
Cigarettes contain a number of different components that are psychoactively and/or biologically impacting the body of a smoker. In combination they are very addictive. Nicotine alone, much much less so.
We never smoke around our kids/grandchild. We have no problem vaping around them. I had a very difficult (and unsuccessful) time convincing my wife not to burn scented candles and spray air fresheners around the children.
They all turn into little monsters anyway no matter what I try......
I blame the candles.
They all turn into little monsters anyway no matter what I try......
I blame the candles.
I vape around the baby and young kids that my wife babysits, and will likely vape around my children when we have some of our own. With how quickly the vapor dissipates, I don't see how it could be harming them much, if at all.
Compare that to cigarettes, which the smell lingers, the tar sticks to everything in your house, etc....
Compare that to cigarettes, which the smell lingers, the tar sticks to everything in your house, etc....
Make sure you don't bake any cakes, cupcakes, or desserts when your baby is around. Think of the second hand flavorings in your recipes. (Being sarcastic, sorry!)
Did you know that pg is used in baby medicine flavoring dispensed by your pharmacy to make it more palatable for babies? Eye drops, humidifiers,...
The amount of nicotine inhaled through vaping by a vaper is a fraction of the amount of nicotine in the liquid. Dr. Farsalinos Konstantinos, the Drexel/Burstyn study, etc., have proven that second hand vapor does not contain any danger of second hand exposure to nicotine.
All of the other ingredients in the ejuice are substances used in many daily and mundane products that not only are inhaled, but ingested by babies/children.
But, you are the one responsible for raising your baby/child, so you get to make the decisions.
Did you know that pg is used in baby medicine flavoring dispensed by your pharmacy to make it more palatable for babies? Eye drops, humidifiers,...
The amount of nicotine inhaled through vaping by a vaper is a fraction of the amount of nicotine in the liquid. Dr. Farsalinos Konstantinos, the Drexel/Burstyn study, etc., have proven that second hand vapor does not contain any danger of second hand exposure to nicotine.
All of the other ingredients in the ejuice are substances used in many daily and mundane products that not only are inhaled, but ingested by babies/children.
But, you are the one responsible for raising your baby/child, so you get to make the decisions.
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