Vaping alcohol flavors

[InTheCity]

I've been hooked on an 'Irish Cream' flavor for the passed month or so and recently had seen that Ethyl Alcohol was on the ingredients list.

Now granted its probably not a great deal of ethyl alcohol providing this flavor, but I have to question whether or not vaping alcohol is good for you at all.

Terrible shame to give up on a flavor that feels like it keeps my atty's clean vapes really well and tastes so damn good.

 

[subby]

vaping alcohol in such small amounts will not harm you.

Some people drink huge amounts of alcohol unharmed (well, we like to tell ourselves that) so such a small amount going up in vapor will not harm you.

 

[InTheCity]

With the exception being, that I'm not normally inhaling alcohol.

 

[subby]

Inhaling something is really no different to eating and injecting or whatever the process is, it all ends up in the same place in the end, the bloodstream.

I highly doubt that at such small amounts (very small amounts in this case) that you will be harmed at all.

 

[CaptJay]

With the exception being, that I'm not normally inhaling alcohol.

Lots of alcoholic drinks give off vapor - but not like 'our' kind - but its inhaled nonetheless - I know this cos Ive developed a sensitivity to some of them and just being near a straight liquor drink makes me cough like a consumptive - alcohol fumes - inhaled in bars daily

 

[JohnnyVapor]

With the exception being, that I'm not normally inhaling alcohol.

Inhaling, ingesting, absorbing, it's not all that different. Inhaled alcohol can cause throat and lung irritation(and of course intoxication in large amounts) but if you haven't noticed any major side effects now, you're not likely to.

As for whether inhaling alcohol is good for you? Of course not. Then again, neither is inhaling anything that isn't air. Also bad for you: bacon cheeseburgers, Tylenol, loud music, tattoos, Christmas dinner, taxes, Texas, and jaywalking. Among other things.

 

[candre23]

There is no difference between drinking alcohol and inhaling alcohol vapor, other than efficiency. The amounts of alcohol you are inhaling as a juice component are minuscule. Open a bottle of 80 proof booze and take a big sniff - you've just "vaped" about what you'd get from a drop of juice with some alcohol added for kick. Here's some math with numbers I'm pulling out of my ....:

Lets say you're a heavy vaper and go through 5ml per day. Lets also say you are of average size (~ 10 pints of blood in your body). Lets say that the juice you're using is 10% ethanol - it's probably much lower, but just for the sake of argument, we'll guess high. And finally, lets assume 100% transfer of alcohol from the vapor to your lungs (also way high, but again, worst case).

10% of 5 is .5 ml of alcohol in your daily juice intake. 10 pints is ~4732ml of blood. .5/4732 is .01% BAC. And that's only if you somehow managed to get all the juice into you at the same time and you got 100% of the alcohol to transfer into your blood stream. In reality, your body would process the alcohol far faster than you could vape it, and you'd never have a measurable amount in your blood stream at any one time. You'd die of nicotine poisoning long before you got enough alcohol to have any effect whatsoever.

 

[shatner]

Inhaling, ingesting, absorbing, it's not all that different. Inhaled alcohol can cause throat and lung irritation(and of course intoxication in large amounts) but if you haven't noticed any major side effects now, you're not likely to.

As for whether inhaling alcohol is good for you? Of course not. Then again, neither is inhaling anything that isn't air. Also bad for you: bacon cheeseburgers, Tylenol, loud music, tattoos, Christmas dinner, taxes, Texas, and jaywalking. Among other things.

Hey! Go easy on Texas. We're not all inbred rednecks. And no, we don't ride horses everywhere, either.

As for the OP. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Dmass]

Where did you get Irish Cream... I want some.

Johnny, Johnny, Johnny...tsk.tsk

Add Chicago for things that are bad for you!

 

[David Bruno]

Really, I'm 99% sure that when the alcohol hits the atty, most, if not all of it, disintegrates before you take a puff. Alcohol burns up real fast when it hits flame.If attys are that hot, it would evaporate it on contact, leaving Zero alcohol. Do we have a chem. major in the house?

 

[unsure]

Captain Morgan's Rum flavor is one of my favs....yummm.

 

[candre23]

Really, I'm 99% sure that when the alcohol hits the atty, most, if not all of it, disintegrates before you take a puff. Alcohol burns up real fast when it hits flame.If attys are that hot, it would evaporate it on contact, leaving Zero alcohol. Do we have a chem. major in the house?

Not a chem major, but I know enough to know that what you are saying is incorrect. There is a pretty big difference between "burning" and "vaporizing". When you burn something, you are oxidizing it. It undergoes a chemical transformation, and the gasses released are different from the material that is being oxidized. That is not what is happening in your PV.

The atty is not burning the alcohol (or the PG/VG or the nicotine), it is vaporizing it. When you vaporize a liquid, all you are doing is changing it's state from a liquid to a gas. The chemical composition does not change. You could cool the vapor produced and it would condense back into the exact same liquid you started with.

So when it comes to alcohol in e-juice, you are inhaling alcohol vapor and some of it does enter your bloodstream. But as I pointed out earlier, the amount you are getting is so minuscule that it is of no consequence whatsoever.