First of all, some of your points are without authority and I require citation before I will accept something like the exact food additive flavorings used in vaping are causing cancer. Will you please cite the studies on this, and which exact chemicals are carcinogenic. As a full time cancer researcher for major institutions, I would be quite interested in this data, and may include it in an upcoming white paper. I/We are fully aware that some food additives such as diacetyl (buttery flavor) are harmful, but most flavorists stay away from that chemical. Acetoin has been known to produce trace amounts of diacetyl, when combined with other compounds. This is also well known in the flavoring community. For example, I took this off The Flavor Apprentice's website:
I have been doing more research, and i discovered that the molecule Acetoin can under certain circumstances "catalyze" into containing minute traces of the molecule Diacetyl. When I spoke to a chemist about this, she confirmed that this can happen during the production of the molecule, but is unlikely to happen after a flavor is blended. I then had a sample of Acetoin purchased from Vigon International analyzed by GC/MS and yes, it did have trace amounts of Diacetyl! When I looked at the online specification sheet that Vigon posts, it does show that the purity of that particular product is 93-100%. Nearly every molecule that is commercially sold is somewhere in this range for purity, and this seems to be an acceptable industry standard. (Vigon is a very reputable company!) Of course, Diacetyl is a perfectly acceptable Food Flavoring, so for the Flavor and Fragrance Industry there is absolutely no problem with this particular trace occurence in the production of Acetoin. It is completely normal. But for customers wanting to avoid even trace amounts of Diacetyl, this means that any flavor that contains the ingredient Acetoin can potentially also contain trace amounts of Diacetyl, even though Diacetyl itself was never added to the blend as an ingredient. Because of this new information, I will add to the flavor descriptions of those flavors that I know contain Acetoin, so that customers can avoid those flavors if they wish. Of course, if only a small amount of acetoin is in a flavor, then the potential likelihood of there also being diacetyl is very very small.
So, our community is very sensitive to these issues and avoids all known issues, alerting us to any known dangers. Again, citations on your argument are needed now for evaluation.
The other point I want to raise is the issue of health and safety. Almost every American does things in their life every single day that are not totally safe. It is not safe to drive a car, cook a meal, take a shower, etc. Safety and healthy are relative terms, and the reason that so many responses to your post include concepts like, "What's your point?" and "Compared to what?" and "So what." Vaping is an amazingly safe activity compared to smoking, and many other daily activities. I know of not a single death attributed to vaping. What else can a human do that can make a similar claim? The fact is nothing is safe, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, electromagnetic pollution, etc. There's nothing wrong with your point whatsoever, as long as the proper perspective is applied to it. Is vaping safe compared to Chantix, for example. Not a single suicide yet from vaping. Chantix suicides in the thousands. So, vaping is a very safe activity compared with, well, just about everything else a human can do. Is it safe? No. Is anything safe? No. Best to you, and thank you for the food for thought.
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