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I think you could harm yourself more with a hot cup of coffee. One spill and ouch, and red burned skin.
Touching a red hot coil will burn, too.
Drinking very high strength nic concentrate would certainly induce vomiting.
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Of course there it the threat of batteries... I like to think e-cigs don't explode...batteries can, be they in a camera, cellphone, hoverboard or e-cigarette.
Beyond that, I vape flavorless and with temperature control.
Beyond that, I vape flavorless and with temperature control.
Well, this latest (Thursday, 31 May 2018), considering it comes from the levelheaded Dr Farsalinos with whom I imagine most readers are familiar; is pretty darn unsettling: First evidence linking e-cigs to COPD and laryngeal cancer
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My read of the article seemed to indicate the link in the case at hand was quite flimsy. Did I miss something?
Yup, must read the whole article.
One could use the same logic to link anything to the condition-- healthier diet, more exercise, any change in medication, for example.
Statistics can be spun to agendas, and often are. Dr F is pointing out how it's done....and how non scientific.
Survey those with COPD (undisputedly most often attributed to smoking) and find out how many tried vaping after diagnosis.
One could use the same logic to link anything to the condition-- healthier diet, more exercise, any change in medication, for example.
Statistics can be spun to agendas, and often are. Dr F is pointing out how it's done....and how non scientific.
Survey those with COPD (undisputedly most often attributed to smoking) and find out how many tried vaping after diagnosis.
Batteries are likely the biggest danger along with mech mods and a poor understanding of ohm's law. There is obviously some risk of contamination of VG/PG with other poisonous glycols but I think in general ignorance and under education are the biggest dangers as far as vaping is concerned.
List scenarios in which stepping into a bathtub may be dangerous.
Since 2009 I've had 0 dangerous experiences. No negative health issues. Only health improvements.
As far as I'm concerned the only danger is if "She Who Must be Obeyed" gets ahold of my credit card statement and finding out that mods cost more than 20 bucks...
As far as I'm concerned the only danger is if "She Who Must be Obeyed" gets ahold of my credit card statement and finding out that mods cost more than 20 bucks...
No danger for me. My wife of 32 years never smoked. She was so thrilled that vaping got me off cigs and restored some of my, uhm, let's just say "youthful stamina", that she has absolutely no problem with any vape purchase.
Well unless you are sensitive to a particular thing (I am PG sensitive, although to be fair, I didn't DIE of it or anything and it's not even like an allergy, my system just reads it as "inhaling pins and needles" although it appeared no real harm done once I switched.
If you pay zero attention to battery safety and wind up with severely degraded or overdischarged cells, that could be harmful.
Most evidence seems to show that ecigs are far less harmful than smoking. I was ON THE WAY to a COPD diagnosis, until I switched to vaping. My docs have only noted health improvements.
I will say, I'm not out of the woods on cancer (most vapers aren't you have to be cigarette free fro a while) or other smoking related diseases, but at least vaping has halted the damage cigarettes were doing and giving me a chance to gain health points and etc. If I wind up with cancer of some sort, I will blame my several decades of heavy smoking, not ecigs. That's my own personal viewpoint.
Read the whole article, it's basically a statement of correlation vs causation, and how they can get mixed up, etc.
Anna
If you pay zero attention to battery safety and wind up with severely degraded or overdischarged cells, that could be harmful.
Most evidence seems to show that ecigs are far less harmful than smoking. I was ON THE WAY to a COPD diagnosis, until I switched to vaping. My docs have only noted health improvements.
I will say, I'm not out of the woods on cancer (most vapers aren't you have to be cigarette free fro a while) or other smoking related diseases, but at least vaping has halted the damage cigarettes were doing and giving me a chance to gain health points and etc. If I wind up with cancer of some sort, I will blame my several decades of heavy smoking, not ecigs. That's my own personal viewpoint.
Read the whole article, it's basically a statement of correlation vs causation, and how they can get mixed up, etc.
Anna
On a daily basis, i think the biggest safety hazard, for me, is dropping a mod on my toe. It hurts! Better than having it hit the floor though, I guess.
Some things from my own experience and what I read somewhere. I have only fear of contamination of coils or liquids:
- Cleaning atomisers with dish soap is not a good idea. Always use alcohol or water only. Soap particles + liquid = acid.
- Don’t use latex gloves, they are mostly not really clean outside (powder, latex / nigril particles) while refilling / cleaning / mixing.
- Don’t wrap used ready to use Coils in aluminium foil for storage purposes. Aluminium will dissolve and particles can get into the coil.
- Beware of hand lotion / soap or grease on your hands while refilling / cleaning / mixing
- Beware of splashy things like oil or milk while cooking that they don’t get into your driptip / coil
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