Again: it sounds like a deliberate attempt to steer away from SMOKE and Health.
There is this constant emphasis that ecigs may constain tobacco products and or nicotine, but the actual problem with smoking has always been the SMOKE and what it does to the LUNGS.
I assure you, edyle, there is no conscious, deliberate attempt to steer away from smoke and health. Quite the contrary, I feel I have been glib, and would like to be sure I am being very clear - it is taken for granted in health circles that smoking is inextricably linked to bad health outcomes, almost without fail (in other words,
if you smoke traditional/analog cigarettes, you will get sick eventually if something else doesn't kill you first). There is no evidence to indicate that nicotine in minute amounts is very bad for you at all, and compared to all the garbage in analog/traditional cigarettes,
I would argue that e-cigs are down-right healthy, w/ or w/o nicotine!
I saw what analogs do in the long term second hand: my father had to have a triple bypass surgery after decades of smoking. So I am a bit biased. I am also a bit biased, however, b/c I began vaping about 3 yrs. ago, and have not smoked analogs since. This is part of why I felt e-cigarette use, and vaper's perceptions of their use of e-cigs, their past smoking (if any) and the inherent health problems that come with smoking are of interest to me. I am aware of the fact that there is no link between e-cigs and health problems, but I am very interested in seeing if other vapers are aware of that, and whether or not they fear some negative health outcomes (albeit, baseless fear, from what we know at this point). So please let me assure you,
I am all for e-cigs, for me and for anyone like me - someone who tried darn near every other tactic to quit w/o success, and who would really like to avoid massive heart surgery and all of the other awful ramifications of smoking. I am confident that, w/o e-cigs, I would still be a smoker and in much worse shape because of it.
I hope that I did not offend you, either in my survey wording, or in my explanation above, but I want you to know, on a very personal level, that I am a supporter, and user, of e-cigs. And I am happy to say that, in the world of public health, I am not alone. Thank you again for your participation and feedback. If you have any additional ideas that you would like to share (I would especially like to know any advice you may have for me when I re-write this survey's questions as to how I can get at the info I have indicated above w/o coming off as disingenuous), or if you would just like to chat more about our respective experiences in vaping, health, etc., please let me know it!
