Why is there so many anti vaping articles?

[DaveP]

I was watching the local morning news one day this week. The anchor said this:

"A new study suggests bacteria accumulated on the mouth pieces of e-cigarettes may cause users to become more susceptible to antibiotic-resistant bacteria."

That was it! That one sentence! Didn't identify the study or offer further explanation/commentary. He just went right on to the next story. Really?!? WTH?

What about the bacteria on the pencil erasers that office workers chew on while they contemplate their next computation? Doesn't anyone care about the workaday stiff? Wait, it's not pencils anymore, it's keyboards ... dirty keyboards full of dead skin and bacteria/

 

[DaveP]

ecig hate comes from three groups, IMO.

Anti-smoking groups who see ecigs as a vehicle to propone nicotine use in one form or another, just as they were seeing the numbers of smokers in decline.

Governments that are seeing tobacco taxes and the tobacco settlement money go away as people switch to e-cigarettes.

Pharmaceutical companies who are seeing an eroded market for quit smoking aids as people switch to e-cigarettes.

It's as much a political environment as anything else. We have entities fighting for profits and taxes as well as for personal beliefs that traditional nicotine users are transcending into the e-cigarette realm for their nicotine in a much safer package.

 

[AgentAnia]

"A new study suggests bacteria accumulated on the mouth pieces of e-cigarettes may cause users to become more susceptible to antibiotic-resistant bacteria."

Okay, I have to ask because this whole thing makes no sense to me. Aren't the bacteria on the mouthpiece of my ecig *my* bacteria? Whose else could it be?** So if it's my bacteria, from my mouth, by what physiological mechanism does my bacteria cause me to become more susceptible to antibiotic-resistant bacteria?

**I make the assumption that the ecig in the study is not being used by multiple vapers, with no cleaning being done between users.

 

[AgentAnia]

What about the bacteria on the pencil erasers that office workers chew on while they contemplate their next computation? Doesn't anyone care about the workaday stiff? Wait, it's not pencils anymore, it's keyboards ... dirty keyboards full of dead skin and bacteria/

Let's not forget landline office phones...

 

[Recycled Roadkill]

Bacteria is literally everywhere. Those that do all they can to prevent their exposure to bacteria are more vulnerable to bacterial infection when it breaks through those barriers. That's just my opinion, of course, but I firmly believe in it.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

 

[Zealous]

Those that do all they can to prevent their exposure to bacteria are more vulnerable to bacterial infection when it breaks through those barriers. That's just my opinion, of course, but I firmly believe in it.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I totally believe this. I disinfect counters because I prepare food there but generally I am WAY less concerned with sterilizing everything our family touches all the time compared to some other people I know. Myself & the rest of the family haven't really been "sick" in a couple years. In fact, the last year my kids got a serious cold was when I still smoked (I smoked in the garage but I still think the fact I smoked affected it). They used to catch a cold around the same time every year & pass it to each other & me. when I switched to vaping that was the first year that didn't happen & it hasn't happened since.