Second Hand Vapor?

[Spills]

Just curious? I dont consider vaping even remotely as dangerous as smoking even without hard evidence. I have been going for about 2 weeks now and feel great, have started exercising and taking better care of myself in general. I have alot more energy now and I swear so do my cats lol, the first few days they seemed to go a bit batty since I beleive they were withdrawing from the secondhand Nicotine they were accustomed to heh. That in itself makes me feel better knowing they arent a side effect of my crappy addiction. Anyway with that in mind Im wondering why people think vaping cant have a secondhand effect? Is it a scientific deal or something? The reason I mention is because im looking at it like a Vicks vaporizer that you use when someone is sick etc...Anyone in the room can be affected by the vapor so why are the ecigs any different? Just curious and thanks for the info in advance!

 

[TWolf]

They're not different. Anything we put into the air can have an effect on someone else. They are just not outputting second hand smoke with it's myriad chemicals/tar. It's safer, but it's not 100% pure air that we're breathing out either.

 

[Little Girl]

You're absolutely right that vaping has a Vicks vaporizer kind of effect. Something is obviously being released into the air. It's whether that something is potentially dangerous or harmful to others that's the question.

If you were to drip one drop of tabasco sauce on your tongue, it would burn, right? But if you were to drip that drop of tabasco sauce into a saucepan full of tomato sauce and stir it up, you wouldn't notice it at all even if you took a huge mouthful of the sauce.

I know I've seen studies that show what is emitted when we exhale after vaping, but I don't have links to those studies handy (would have to do some digging). What I remember is that the quantities of whatever is exhaled (depending on which base, which flavor or flavors, which other ingredients like alcohol or water, and whether or not you use nicotine and how much of it you use) are negligible, so by the time they get mixed up with the air around us and reach someone else, they're even more negligible, just like that tabasco sauce added to the tomato sauce above.

I'm not a doctor or a chemist or a scientist, so I can't say for certain whether even a negligible amount could be a problem for someone who's maybe allergic to one of the ingredients we use, but I suspect that even an allergy requires a certain quantity of the offending substance to cause a reaction.