Is vaping safe?

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gandymarsh

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Mushrooms are organic but some can kill you.
Snake venom is organic but it kills several people every year.
Peanuts are organic but some people can have a life threatening reaction to them.

Just because something is organic doesn't make it safe.

I'm not going to tell anyone what they can or can't put into their body. If you want to vape, go ahead. vaping is SAFER than smoking. That's all anyone can say right now.

I vape to stay off tobacco. I do enjoy it but that's just a side effect.
 

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Vapourised Propylene Glycol gets inhaled at a lot of theatrical venues, no one ever makes an issue of it, including big pharma, only when people starting using it instead of a cigarette did big pharma all of a sudden start to lobby for it's regulation and ban. Vegetable Glycerine used to be used in fog machines too but it clogged up the fog machine and left a sticky residue on everything it settled on. The point is no one ever, ever complained about the dense fog you might find at a music venue, night club, concert etc and was never made an issue by any governing body. And some of those devices use oil to produce fog. Now i'm sure that these devices have been passed by the concerned government bodies as perfectly safe. So my answer to the op would be yes it is safe to vape 0% nicotine e liquid according to which ever governing body who says it's ok to inhale vapour from a fog machine at any given theatrical venue. There really is no difference between a fog machine and a handheld personal fog machine/APV. Only an idiot would argue that there is a difference.
When you consider whether the flavourings used in e liquids are safe to inhale at a certain temperature you should think about how those exact same flavour concentrates get used in the kitchen on a domestic level all over the world. There has never been an issue about whether the vapour from those concentrates could cause harm when inhaled during the cooking process, if they're burnt or not !.

If you were to consider how VG, PG and concentrated flavourings were used pre-ecig and compare that data to how these same substances are used in APV's and ecigs, you'd realise the only data you actually have is propaganda which has been conjured up by big pharma saying how bad these sunstances are. That's funny !, they were perfectly ok when weren't being used as an alternative to tobacco. When did big pharma become an expert with food concentrates and fog machines anyway ?.

Obviously Nicotine is poisonous and isn't safe to inhale and should be regulated and banned in the same way cigarettes are. And it really depends which country you are in that determines the law about that.

I am surprised the chewing gum industry hasn't lobbied for the ban on nicotine chewing gum, or vice versa. They would have a perfectly good arguement if you based it on the arguement big pharma has with the ecig industry.
Maybe the big players in the ecig industry should get together with the chewing gum industry and get nicotine chewing gum banned completely and see how they like that.
 
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The PG vapor you get at a theatrical venue is a lot less concentrated than inhaling it straight. And unless you work there you are subjected to it a short period of time and not daily.
And NONE of the flavorings are certified for inhalation nor are they USP just GRAS. Just saying.
With that said I am all for vaping as a way to get off of cigs and consider it to be much safer. But that is my opinion based on what few facts we have on vaping and my own experience with it so far.

And considering that I am an old fart I even vape the diketone thingys because they are tasty little things. And I plan to keep on vapin till I die. Me likes it!

I do encourage any smoker to use vaping as an alternative and have converted 3 or 4 so far.
I do not recommend that any non smokers take up vaping. And it cannot be safer than not vaping.
I also support laws preventing the sale of any vaping supplies or equipment to anyone under 18.
yes it will not keep it from happening but it will slow it down some.
 

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It is true that the biological effects of vaping are as of yet not fully understood, however, since I have switched to vaping i feel better and while i understand that this could be entirely psycho-sematic I personally believe that inhaling vapor is better for me than smoking was. Understand that im not statimg factually that vapor is better, equal or otherwise, just that it appears to agree with me more than smoke ever did. I dont really think that vaping should be a hobby that a non-smoker just picks up because they're bored, but what others do with their time and money is their concern, not mine(obvious exceptions such as kids noted).

Having said that, this thread has been dedicated to just the inhalation of vapor not the act if vaping itself. No attention has been given to the devices we use to produce the vapor. Hopefully everyone who vapes has done their due dilligence before filling their first tank, but thats not always the case. Things can and do go wrong with vaping gear. Having electronic devices that close to our faces while we heat up a tiny coil to produce a vapor isnt in itself the safest practise I have ever heard of. But hey who doesnt like a little risk?

What i wonder is if anyone has successfully quit vaping after replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes? I know im hooked and probably wont quit any time soon, but then I'm assuming the risk.
 
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It is true that the biological effects of vaping are as of yet not fully understood, however, since I have switched to vaping i feel better and while i understand that this could be entirely psycho-sematic I personally believe that inhaling vapor is better for me than smoking was. Understand that im not statimg factually that vapor is better, equal or otherwise, just that it appears to agree with me more than smoke ever did. I dont really think that vaping should be a hobby that a non-smoker just picks up because they're bored, but what others do with their time and money is their concern, not mine(obvious exceptions such as kids noted).

Having said that, this thread has been dedicated to just the inhalation of vapor not the act if vaping itself. No attention has been given to the devices we use to produce the vapor. Hopefully everyone who vapes has done their due dilligence before filling their first tank, but thats not always the case. Things can and do go wrong with vaping gear. Having electronic devices that close to our faces while we heat up a tiny coil to produce a vapor isnt in itself the safest practise I have ever heard of. But hey who doesnt like a little risk?

What i wonder is if anyone has successfully quit vaping after replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes? I know im hooked and probably wont quit any time soon, but then I'm assuming the risk.

I've heard of two that did; the daughter-in-law of one of my mom's BFFs, though I haven't heard a report in a while. And actually the guy who initially helped me try out vaping with a couple of cigalikes used vaping to quit smoking and has now stopped vaping too. He's one of my husband's co-workers, and my husband says his total quit seems to be doing fine. A very third-hand report also, that that guy's father-in-law, who helped HIM start vaping, has also fully quit.

I really doubt I will ever quit, but hey, I guess anything's possible -- I never thought I would quit smoking, after all. :D

Andria
 
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