Trawling the internet and I found this:-
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Yea, I saw that too and I'm personally not worried about it, I think it's just another one of those "media vs. E-cigs" articles. People trying to find bad things about these devices, just so they can call them "unsafe" and eventually get them banned. Also congrats on quitting!
As for, "calling for research", don't hold your breath. Any research will show these things as safe and more effective than the gum/patch.... and the folks with the money don't want that.
Fear and disinformation are the political tools of the plutocracy.
Fear and disinformation are the political tools of the plutocracy.
I googled the term "oil base eliquid" and came up with this information.
Propylene Glycol (PG), Vegetable Glycerin (VG), PG is made from animal and/or petroleum-based oils, VG is made strictly from plant oils.
This implies that we're all using an oil based eliquid. I also noticed their are a number of oil based flavorings, so I'd render a guess that some eliquids have more oil than others? These articles never seem to include any detail. No mention of what or how much the man had been using.
Propylene Glycol (PG), Vegetable Glycerin (VG), PG is made from animal and/or petroleum-based oils, VG is made strictly from plant oils.
This implies that we're all using an oil based eliquid. I also noticed their are a number of oil based flavorings, so I'd render a guess that some eliquids have more oil than others? These articles never seem to include any detail. No mention of what or how much the man had been using.
I believe that article was discredited as to ecigs being the cause of death.
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The e-cig juice vendors use water based flavorings or, in special cases, if they use an oil based flavoring they use alcohol to integrate it since some natural flavorings are in oils. That said, IDK about the specific health consequences of flavoring A over flavoring B and can't really comment other than to say that I have to trust the flavor vendors that sell flavors specifically for vaping.
There are probably a number of dumb-a$$es in the world that have mixed their own e-juice and added flavorings from the store shelf that are intended for frosting or some such and not for vaping. So caution is the word of the day here.
To complicate matters, many flavorings are termed "candy oils" in the industry. However, many of them (not all) are water based. You have to know, or get your flavorings from e-cig vendors that you deem trustworthy. See ECF's approved vendor list. Also, see the DIY e-juice section of ECF for more information.
VG is chemically "cracked" from vegetable oil. It is, however, and alcohol.
The long story: Triglycerides are esters of glycerol and fatty acids. The fatty acid is the oil side of the molecule, glycerol the alcohol side. This will be on the test later.
The long story: Triglycerides are esters of glycerol and fatty acids. The fatty acid is the oil side of the molecule, glycerol the alcohol side. This will be on the test later.
Breakdown of the article:
A doctor from Tyneside has called for more research into "electronic" cigarettes following the death of one of his patients.
---Scare mongering, attention-grabbing blurb.
Mr Miller, who used large quantities of the substitutes, had suffered from a lung disease - severe lipoid pneumonia.
---Which substitutes exactly? Purposely vague to support the FUD of the first paragraph.
Dr Rob Allcock, who treated him at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, believes this could be associated with his use.
---Still vague; his use of what? The doctor doesn't know what killed him and now he's making vague claims about the cause which still isn't stated clearly.
Dr Allcock said that the brand Mr Miller had been using seemed to involve a mixture of nicotine and some oil.
---So the good doctor has no idea what the ingredients are and believes this is the cause? This makes no sense.
"There's extensive literature in the medical world on damage to the lungs due to inhaling oil, which looks very similar to his disease," he said.
---The doctor doesn't know if there's oil in the vague "thing" the patient was using, but because there's an article or two about inhaling oil, this must be the cause. That has got to be the worst use of "logic" I've seen in awhile.
"There's some limited research merely mentioning what the chemical composition [of "electronic" cigarettes] is, but there's no systematic research assessing the overall safety of inhaling these chemicals deep into the lungs over an extended period."
---Either the doctor is in woefully misinformed or just flat lying.
Really, a pretty piss-poor "article". I usually respect BBC reporting, but this is as bad as Fox News. There's nothing to see here, move along.
A doctor from Tyneside has called for more research into "electronic" cigarettes following the death of one of his patients.
---Scare mongering, attention-grabbing blurb.
Mr Miller, who used large quantities of the substitutes, had suffered from a lung disease - severe lipoid pneumonia.
---Which substitutes exactly? Purposely vague to support the FUD of the first paragraph.
Dr Rob Allcock, who treated him at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, believes this could be associated with his use.
---Still vague; his use of what? The doctor doesn't know what killed him and now he's making vague claims about the cause which still isn't stated clearly.
Dr Allcock said that the brand Mr Miller had been using seemed to involve a mixture of nicotine and some oil.
---So the good doctor has no idea what the ingredients are and believes this is the cause? This makes no sense.
"There's extensive literature in the medical world on damage to the lungs due to inhaling oil, which looks very similar to his disease," he said.
---The doctor doesn't know if there's oil in the vague "thing" the patient was using, but because there's an article or two about inhaling oil, this must be the cause. That has got to be the worst use of "logic" I've seen in awhile.
"There's some limited research merely mentioning what the chemical composition [of "electronic" cigarettes] is, but there's no systematic research assessing the overall safety of inhaling these chemicals deep into the lungs over an extended period."
---Either the doctor is in woefully misinformed or just flat lying.
Really, a pretty piss-poor "article". I usually respect BBC reporting, but this is as bad as Fox News. There's nothing to see here, move along.
I just googled lipoid pneumonia. It can also be caused by certain nasal and throat sprays. Even the age old remedy of Vaseline/Petroleum Jelly for a dry nose. But if anyone gets this disease and they use electronic cigarettes, guess what will be blemed??
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