The vapor in your lungs?

[b4cz28]

Have you ever put a cig up to a paper towel and taken a drag on your cig throught the towel....it turns a dark brown color and tar is clearly visable. I took a paper towel and did the same with my pv and guess what? Nothing! It was barly even damp, so after saying all that I think were safe (yes I said safe).

 

[misterhyde]

As far as I understand it, the PG/VG is a Humectant and draws in water from the air around it. In our case that would be the air in our lungs. What you breathe out is a tiny percentage of water, along with heated PG/VG. When you heat PG/VG, it becomes that "smoke" or vapor you see. Kind of like when you heat water it becomes steam.

I've heard scare stories too Want To Quit, and I think of it this way. A lot of users here have been vaping for over a year. Lots of them for a lot longer. And there are (at a conservative estimate) 100,000 vapers and growing daily. If there was some serious health issue, don't you think it would have shown up by now?

 

[scratch777]

Haven't read all 7 pages of posts, so this has probably been already said, and I don't know squat about vaping, but there is NOTHING harmful about inhaling water vapor. Air already contains water vapor, and plenty of people intentionally inhale steam to clear up congestion, for example. I am not speaking to any of the other stuff in e-juice, but vaporized h20 is not a concern.

 

[scratch777]

Have you ever put a cig up to a paper towel and taken a drag on your cig throught the towel....it turns a dark brown color and tar is clearly visable. I took a paper towel and did the same with my pv and guess what? Nothing! It was barly even damp, so after saying all that I think were safe (yes I said safe).

Wow, never thought of that - just did the same and not a stain to be seen! BIG difference than, say, what a used sig filter looks like.

 

[NCC]

Yes, it would indeed, but not in any kind of special conditions. All the time.

I'm not aware of anyone vaporizing PR &/or VG is the absence of water vapor in the air. Maybe it has been done, but I haven't heard of it, got a link? If not, then we really don't know. It would take laboratory conditions to test that theory, since all natural air contains water vapor (which, by the way, is invisible).

I'll go with DC's PG/VG fog. Have from day 1 in these endless debates on ECF.

 

[LNCHBX]

Thanks for all of the useful information. I had similar thoughts about water in the lungs causing pneumonia or the likes but feel much better about things after reading the thoughts on this "water" or fluids in the vapor topic