Nicotine and Cancer. I hear it a lot.

[Drummel]

I decided to snatch this off of one of the wiki's. I am not taking this quote out of context, as I copied the entire paragraph it pertained to.

The carcinogenic properties of nicotine in standalone form, separate from tobacco smoke, have not been evaluated by the IARC, and it has not been assigned to an official carcinogen group. The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties. However, nicotine and the increased cholinergic activity it causes have been shown to impede apoptosis, which is one of the methods by which the body destroys unwanted cells (programmed cell death). Since apoptosis helps to remove mutated or damaged cells that may eventually become cancerous, the inhibitory actions of nicotine may create a more favourable environment for cancer to develop, though this also remains to be proven.[45]

Just thought I'd share. Maybe this will ease some people, maybe this will create more questions, but I think this is quite useful knowledge.

Happy vaping!

 

[justsomeguy]

Fascinating, Drummel - thanks.

 

[HighTech]

YouTube - Electronic Cigarette - Dr. David Baron, M.D. - PART 1/2

 

[Kate51]

Drummel, thanks for posting that!
It's very important to all e-cig users to keep digging for information regarding safety.
This information was relevant to conspiracy theorists that even back in the 1800's cigarettes were found to be contributing to lung ailments and cancers. It has long been thought that cigarettes were a method to the end for controlling elder and inferior population numbers (eugenics), based on the beliefs of Progressive movement even back then. Conspirisists in retaliation theorized why else was it allowed to add chemicals to inferior tobacco to make it more palatable and thus more widely used, therefore the more ignorant users would be gradually eliminated from the gene pool or at least from long term care costs.
Nicotine was looked at in particular as being a carcinogen, but investigation could not contribute nicotine to that factor. It was made suspect again in the 1960's.
That's why I am comforted by the fact that most e-cig users are ingesting much less nicotine than in use of tobacco cigarettes, and while nicotine is toxic in high doses and is linked to addictions, it has been shown to be much less prevalent in Metabolic testing. This is just one example, there are more:

http://www.healthnz.co.nz/ElectronicCigsDarwinOct09.pdf

There are further implications that Nicotine can be of benefit, i.e., studies done in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, as well as treatment for ADD, ADHD, Bi-polar and more.

 

[lopster]

that was a kewl video hightech, thx for sharin