Vaping…is it safe?

Bloodtangerine

Bloodtangerine

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What’s the score with it? ….are there real benefits for smokers that move onto the Vapesticks instead or is it bullshit and in a few years they’ll find out it gives you AIDS or some such?
 
I don’t think it is , but no science behind that.
I do know that when in close proximity to cigarette smoke I can actually breathe better than when someone blows vape fumes in my face. Or my car or house.

I have an immediate reaction to vape fumes that affect my lungs that I don’t get with cigarette smoke. I’ve had to ban my daughter from vaping in the house.

So for me it’s not a proven healthy replacement for quitting the cigs. As said, it’s another addiction where the full health affects aren’t known, for now.
 
Bloodtangerine said:
What’s the score with it? ….are there real benefits for smokers that move onto the Vapesticks instead or is it bullshit and in a few years they’ll find out it gives you AIDS or some such?
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Why have the government not put a tax on Vape buyers/supply, seems odd, maybe they know a little more about the long term effects👍
 
Bloodtangerine said:
What’s the score with it? ….are there real benefits for smokers that move onto the Vapesticks instead or is it bullshit and in a few years they’ll find out it gives you AIDS or some such?
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“In a nutshell, best estimates show e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes, and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether.”

if you have some spare time Blood read the report otherwise the key messages on page 6.

 
What gets me is how they have put all cigarettes behind a closed sliding door to not promote them , however then you have all the vape liquids right in your face - with enticing flavours like cherry , candy floss , bannana and strawberry etc making them really appealing to kids . Makes no sense . And easily another addiction 💰💰💰💰
 
TangerineYfronts said:
“In a nutshell, best estimates show e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes, and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether.”

if you have some spare time Blood read the report otherwise the key messages on page 6.

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Ta mate
 
I gave up smoking 10 years ago, and vaped for a couple of months whilst a weened myself of the dreaded nicotine….
Each to there own but I know a few people who genuinely think they’ve done well giving up smoking even though they vape 24/7….🤦‍♂️🤣
 
Pretty safe according to studies, remember nicotine itself isn't harmful and vaping is literally saving lives, I know a lot of ex smokers who now vape and the cough has always gone, it's just nicotine, propylene glycol, which we all eat as a preservative and is used in asthma medication and vegetable glycerine, which is just food oil, all in steam form.

I would imagine 5 pints of lager is much more damaging.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Pretty safe according to studies, remember nicotine itself isn't harmful and vaping is literally saving lives, I know a lot of ex smokers who now vape and the cough has always gone, it's just nicotine, propylene glycol, which we all eat as a preservative and is used in asthma medication and vegetable glycerine, which is just food oil, all in steam form.

I would imagine 5 pints of lager is much more damaging.
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Not if it’s carlsberg, hardly alcohol
 
On a bit of tangent, the story I hear is that the pharma companies hate vapes and want them banned, because they used to make a fortune out of patches/gum, and these are destroying their market.

So if you hear anything bad about them, be cautious, and check the source.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Unless your house has an amazing purifier, you don't use any aerosols, you live a long way from any roads or rail and not under any flight paths or near any industry or farms, then yeah, you're breathing freshish air, if you're lucky.
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But the Fylde coast is still pretty good on a relative scale.
 
I knew someone (non-smoker) who got lung cancer from standing over a chip fryer for years.
Anything that constantly irritates the throat and lungs over a long period of time is going to spell trouble eventually. Imo
 
tangerine_neil said:
I knew someone (non-smoker) who got lung cancer from standing over a chip fryer for years.
Anything that constantly irritates the throat and lungs over a long period of time is going to spell trouble eventually. Imo
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Likewise I knew a guy that was as fit as they come and regularly ran half marathons who got lung cancer and sadly died. The disease is not exclusive to any one group.
 
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