Cigarette smoke has long overshadowed nicotine as the main culprit for heart disease, but a new study suggests that nicotine itself may stimulate the disease process by altering cell structures and
promoting fatty plaque deposits, the hallmark of cardiovascular disease, to accumulate in vessels.
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Would that be the fatty deposits from the Big Macs or the super sized New York style chocolate shakes people consume? It's funny how everyone has a vendetta against some sort of substitute to something more harmful. If your doctor tells you to eat hard candy instead of Hershey's Kisses, then the dentist will tell you to change to sugarless candy. The doctor will then warn you about artificial sweeteners. Sheesh!
Moderation and harm reduction is valuable. We all know that smoking kills. Vaping must be a lesser evil. Few substances are without some sort of risk these days, however minute they may be.
Some of the healthiest people in the world grew up on American Farms eating food grown in their backyard fields. Then, technology gave us pesticides and genetically altered seed.
We as vapers represent maybe 15% of the total smoking population and an insignificant percentage of the total adult population. As smokers quit or switch to vaping, we stand to grow our ranks by some unknown multiple. Some smokers will quit using various products, some will quit cold turkey, and others will just die from various causes. A certain number will discover vaping, but only if we educate them. As long as vaping carries the stigma of antifreeze and carcinogens spread by the FDA, we will lose some potential vapers.
The news media really doesn't yet have the hard facts about vaping. They still pull their FDA test reports from 2009 and declare that ecigs contain antifreeze and tobacco carcinogens. I cringe when I hear those little blurbs on national TV. Education is the key to information accuracy.
