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Being new to vaping, but having done my research before switching over from analogs, I'm hopeful that vaping is going to prove much healthier than smoking.


As a smoker [here comes the gross bit] I'd sometimes clean my nostrils with some tissue paper, and would be somewhat concerned by the dark brown gunk that I'd remove.


So I did a little experiment today. I made a point of expressing every vape I took out of my nose with my mouth firmly shut.


After vaping just over 2.5ml of Five Pawns Castle Long, I took the twisted tissue test.


Delighted to say it produced nothing, zero, clean as a whistle!


Hardly scientific, but a clean nose is a sign of clean lungs as far as I'm concerned.


Happy Vaping :)
 

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If you think that's gross, you should see what a smoker's lungs look like.

Here are the real lungs of a long term smoker. The amount of tar built up on the lungs is frightening.

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These are healthy lungs for comparison.

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That pic totally grossed me out. I do realize that lungs do not turn black but with all the sickness that comes from years of smoking is equally gross. Glad I stopped smoking 9 months ago but I can imagine the damage I have done. The government is worrying about vaping. They should be after the big tobacco company big wigs to killing us legally.
 
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I've overcome my hesitation to mention that for some people who stopped smoking, there is a process of coughing up phlegm as the lungs try to rid themselves of, well, the crap that has assailed them for years.

That period as an oyster producer can be fairly gross, but when that ends and you have clean nostrils, you are on your way to having different health issues to worry about! Dentistry seems to figure high on the list - every cloud and all that...

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The black lung propaganda is just another public health industry lie. Pathologists will tell you they cannot identify smoker's lungs post mortem. In the UK, 40% of lung transplants use smoker's lungs and the outcomes are no different.

Mind you, lung transplant patients do not have an expectation of long survival rates, so this particular fact may not have much relevance.


People need to be very careful about this: if a 'fact' about smoking or vaping or Snus comes from the public health industry, there is an 80% chance it is a lie. If it isn't a lie, then it will be a distortion or misrepresentation of the truth 10% of the time, and disinformation 9% of the time. About 1% of the time they are being truthful, probably when discussing the weather.
 

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to ecf Caterpiller. Nice to meet you and glad that you are here. This is a wonderful observation but when someone asks me if vaping is healthier than smoking. . . I won't be sharing my mucus with them.
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But seriously, this does make sense because we are no longer exhaling all the tars and chemicals from cigarettes. I can remember blowing smoke through a napkin and seeing the brown. I have also done this with vaping and there is not colored residue.
 

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That pic totally grossed me out. I do realize that lungs do not turn black but with all the sickness that comes from years of smoking is equally gross. Glad I stopped smoking 9 months ago but I can imagine the damage I have done. The government is worrying about vaping. They should be after the big tobacco company big wigs to killing us legally.

It's called politics. For some of the southern states, tobacco plays a large part of the economy. It's like cutting military spending. The politicians are all for it, until it means that the military wants to close bases in their home state.
 
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