I am truly embarrassed to be an American today. Nuff said.
Advocates for e-cigarettes and other vaping devices said the ad is misleading and that it mistakenly connects the tobacco products with the e-cigarette.
“It just continues the CDC’s several-year quest to mislead smokers into believing that vaper products [including e-cigarettes] may be hazardous to the health of smokers,” said Gregory Conley, the president of the American vaping Association, which advocates for small- and medium-sized vaping-related companies. “The clear implication in the new CDC ad is that the use of vaper products somehow contributed to the disease suffered by the smoker in the ad. That's patently dishonest.”
Your story, Nomore Stinkies, should be sent to the head of CDC! Signed, return receipt requested because we want to be sure he got it. Over a yr. ago, met a young woman at a Knoxville vape meet who also had had a collapsed lung. Was not this woman. The woman I met went on vaping and felt far better for it.
Because of your medical background and where you work, how have your associates received your experience with vaping? I ask because my oldest dau. is also a nurse in Fairbanks, AK. Her response to my vaping when I surprised her with it on one visit was estatic. After we danced around a bit at 5:30 a.m. before she set off for work, she asked me all about it. Took the info off to the hospital with her and shared. Apparently vaping is not well received there, but they do hand out inhalers.
Precisely! My asthma means I can't abide anything over 20% VG, or I can't breathe at all, and go around feeling like I have a hairball in my chest that I can't cough up no matter how hard I try. If I tried to vape 100% VG, I'd soon be in a hospital, since even trying a 35% VG juice gave me an asthma attack so bad, I almost couldn't even inhale from my rescue inhaler!
Andria
So far I'm blessed. I smoked a PAD of Marlboro Reds for almost 20 years and then another 20 years with ultra lights, 2 PAD. I've only had three X-rays and one CTI scan in all that time, but each showed normal results for lung condition. The most recent X-ray was a couple of months ago when I caught what was going around during Christmas and the doctor sent me for an X-ray to rule out pneumonia. That was diagnosed normal and the copy I got on DVD looks like all the Google images of normal X-rays.
I do notice a slight need to breathe deeply when I exert myself, but maybe not more than normal for my age (64). For what it's worth, I do 140 free weight reps and a 6 mile stationary bike ride 5 days a week with the bike peaking at 80% resistance. My heart rate rises about 20 to 30 BPM during that time and my pulse oximeter stays at 97/98 and I can breathe deeply while riding and hit 99. Vaping for 5 years and not smoking is the reason I can do that.
I'll always think that government has an alternate adenda that is based on tax receipts and not necessarily our health. Maybe they just don't like the sight of exhaled vapor. If they were interested in our health, they'd outlaw tobacco cigarettes and praise vaping. Go figure.
The WebMD article at
E-Cigarettes Under Fire
is from six years ago (2009), just before SE and NJOY sued the FDA for unlawfully banning e-cig imports.