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[Semiretired]

Ahh, come on, you know those "bodies" would be mice and rabbits.

Yea, you are right... I slipped let's say...

 

[Ed_C]

There have been others and many of them even the diacetyl are still used to some extent. While from what I can remember it never had linked health effects, but cinnamon was very hard on tanks before and I always wondered if it did that to tanks what was it doing to our body...

Yeah, I always wondered about the "melts my tank, but it's fine for my lungs." Yes, it may breakdown plastic, but not lung tissues, but it still makes you wonder. Some juices can be pretty acidic, more so than what the pH is normally in your lungs, as well.

 

[Inly]

There have been others and many of them even the diacetyl are still used to some extent. While from what I can remember it never had linked health effects, but cinnamon was very hard on tanks before and I always wondered if it did that to tanks what was it doing to our body...

Diacetyl specifically has been cited as a major contributing factor in popcorn lung/bronchiolitis obliterans. I probably spelt that wrong. Anyway, it's definitely not good to be inhaling that, despite it being safe for consumption. As I say, it's the only thing in ecigs I can think of that has any history of health risks, and in the low concentration it would be in e-juice I don't even know if it would have that effect. Still better to avoid it where possible, like.

 

[Lessifer]

We do get reports of complaints on here from time to time. Not a lot, but once in a while. I also read about people who have quit vaping because they think their health problems are caused from vaping. Our little group, usually, quickly tells them that it's likely residual effects from previous smoking. This may very well be the case, but we all do have a vested interest in believing in the relative safety of vaping. So you're right, we don't hear too much, but when we do, we tend to want to blame something else.

I do pay attention to those threads when I see them. I try not to jump to "it can't be vaping, it must be ____" though it probably does happen. The problem is, most things can be attributed to something else, like quitting smoking, or the particulars of how the person is vaping, or even just their own medical history/physicality.

I'm not saying that no one will have an adverse reaction to vaping, I'm saying that on a large scale, there hasn't been anything that we can definitively attribute to vaping.

As for diacetyl and other potentially hazardous flavorings, those concerns came from the community, have been explored by scientists that the community believes are fair to vaping, and even then it hasn't surpassed "concern" level, though some have taken it well beyond that.

 

[Ed_C]

One of the issues with trying to determine the relative safety is that almost everyone who vapes is an ex-smoker. You really need to follow vapers who have never smoked. Not an easy thing to do.