New vaper inbound!

[MarcoSilva]

Hello everyone!

As you can probably tell (I'm not very good at hiding my identity now am I) my name is Marco and I'm from Portugal.

I'm what it's considered a light smoker. I smoke on exam seasons and I smoke on social occasions with the occasional cig when I'm overly stressed at my engineering course. I found vaping a few days ago, and I've been reading about it, read the study that came out on the 15th of May,2014 and saw that there are no real health concerns so far but that more research is needed.
"All good!" I thought, but turns out the lastest study that was done via crowdfunding support states that many samples had high levels of DA and AP, which can cause a rare breathing condition that is so far un-reverseable. So, that scares me.

Point being, do you know if Volcano uses ANY of those in their flavours and on which if so? I sent them an e-mail asking them the same question, but I'd like to know ASAP since I was going to order their Inferno kit..

 

[Admsteff]

I can't post links, but there is tons of health stuff here in the forum under "Health and Medical." We presume vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes, but believing it is totally harmless is foolish. The idea is "harm reduction." I'm not familiar with the study you note, but just use your head and don't jump to conclusions. Examining studies, checking for errors of methodology, etc. is difficult. Crowdfunding sounds okay, but that says nothing about who performed the study, unless I misunderstand the concept. One can create a study to arrive at a predetermined outcome easily, especially when only showing correlation rather than causation, and potential risks rather than proven statistically significant risks. That said, perhaps it's true and vapers will all end up dead long before smokers...

As for finding specific vendor ingredients, one can do no better than to ask, as you have done already.