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I have sat in a room with 75 cardio-pulmonary specialists and listened to them being told by their peer at the podium that research shows the primary cause of lung cancer in smokers is radioactive particles in tobacco. None of them batted an eye. The reason is the tobacco plant readily takes up polonium in rock phosphate fertilizer and stores it in it's leaves.
The states insist that the feds support smoking, not vaping, because of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement of 1998: you can sell cigarettes in this state but it will kill our citizens so you must pay us millions every year; in return, we will ensure that none of them can sue you. The states have already borrowed against this income for years to come and cannot afford diminishing payouts.
I read some reports that vaping was causing cystalization of the lungs. I don't think they are harmless but again not enough study done on the long term effects.
Those reports are propaganda. They ARE harmless and the long term effects have been studied for nearly a century. People say 'not enough study on the long term effects' because they are uninformed. To clarify, there are three ingredients: nicotine is about as harmful as caffeine and well-tested, vegetable glycerine is known to be harmless (beneficial, actually - they pump its vapor into the lungs of sick newborns) also well-tested, and the last ingredient is the same flavors you inhale when you smell dessert baking. Inhaling these things is not new, all that is new is the portability (because of lithium battery technology). Nobody should take up vaping with nicotine from scratch, but all smokers should transition to it. (Nicotine harms adults about as much as caffeine, but is notably harmful to developing brains; so no kids or pregnant women should touch it. What harms grown smokers has never been the nicotine, even Nicoderm knows that.)
I'd be willing to bet the "cause" of cancer is the additives to tobacco. We have nicotine receptors for a reason, it actually causes a flushing reaction in the body. If you grow your own I'm sure you'd be fine.
surprisingly to most people, it’s the tobacco plant that has harmful chemicals and heavy metals. You are exposed to them when you burn and inhale the smoke of the the leaves. The tobacco plant itself attracts the radioactive isotopes of lead and cadmium etc as its growing. it’s similar to how the sunflower plant works which the Russians used to decontaminate chernobyl after the accident.
So basically you are filling your lungs with tar and radioactive nano particles when you smoke. The average smoker is exposed to more radiation than astronauts. That’s why they tend to get cancer.
Wait, vaping has been studied for a century?
Yes, each of the ingredients in their liquid and vapor phase have been studied for a century and found harmless (except the minor nicotine concerns I mentioned). Vaping was designed to be safe, and so was built around safe ingredients. To be clear, I'm talking about regular vaping (nicotine e-liquid) - I can't speak to vaping weed or other random crap people have been experimenting with.
Then why do I get all these ads that repeatedly berate vaping for being toxic? "Metal, in your lungs!"
Damn, even being awake it's difficult to find truth in this fubar world.
I've been vaping weed and it's okay I guess.
I remember a web MD article noting the fact that smokers were hospitalized less than non smokers from COVID and they thought it had something to do with the nicotine 🤷♀️
Interesting considering when vape first came out I was mid thirties and decided to quit smoking and start vaping. Six months later in the summer months I was hospitalized with blood clots in my lungs.
All tests came back inconclusive on how the clots came to be. The ONLY thing in my life that was different was the vape.
Needless to say I quit vaping and started smoking again. Neither are good for you but now im.on blood thinners for life.
The Popcorn Lung controversy was from a butter flavoring that was absolutely delicious in nearly every flavor mix - kind of like how butter is in cooking. Industrial popcorn workers got popcorn lung from lifetime exposure at the factory a while back and it was awful; so out of a MASSIVE abundance of caution, the e-liquid community decided to abandon its use voluntarily. Nobody ever got popcorn lung from vaping.
So many carcinogens in them screwing with circulation
I thought the vaping problem was the batteries exploding. Some kid had half his jaw blown off, someone else had one explode in their pocket.