Beware of Liquid Nicotine for E-Cigarettes
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I agree that, much like many household cleaners and insecticides, liquid nicotine should be kept locked up somewhere safe. Much like burning cigarettes, it's not a good idea to have it lying next to you when you're about to go to sleep or to handle it without care. The article has kind of overstated the risk of actually smoking e-cigarettes by building a straw man on top of the study that is unrelated to vaping itself. This is a study of how much nicotine is typically taken in by vapers (about 1 mg in 5 mins, with less of that being absorbed.) http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/10/6/2500
That e-cigs don't contain the 200 plus carcinogens cigarettes do makes me think that they are safer than cigarettes. The vapour delivery means they aren't inhaling hot smoke, which is even better. I know quite a few people who have managed to quit smoking using e-cigs when nothing else worked. Others still use them, and are still enjoying health benefits over cigarettes.
Of course, those of us who have epilepsy are best off without any kind of nicotine at all, whether it be tobacco products, gum, or vapour.
That e-cigs don't contain the 200 plus carcinogens cigarettes do makes me think that they are safer than cigarettes. The vapour delivery means they aren't inhaling hot smoke, which is even better. I know quite a few people who have managed to quit smoking using e-cigs when nothing else worked. Others still use them, and are still enjoying health benefits over cigarettes.
Of course, those of us who have epilepsy are best off without any kind of nicotine at all, whether it be tobacco products, gum, or vapour.
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Speaking of e-juice, in my city of about 10,000 people we had two e-cig and e-juice shops open in the past 3 weeks. There were none here before. I know that vaping is getting more popular but I was surprised to see 2 start-ups within a few blocks of each other. I don't partake of any of that myself, but it's an interesting trend to follow, and to see how they market it.
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Vaping is a huge business. The station I'm with has one on as a major sponsor.
Vaping is very safe and a great replacement for smoking. Nicotine is actually, from what I understand, not much worse than caffeine. Thing about vaping is, the nicotine can be extremely concentrated in that juice. It can poison you.
I smoke cigars, but not often, so I don't plan on changing. I have friends that use vapes to help quit smoking cigarettes. I also know people who have started using vapes in order to tap the nicotine. The vapes are a good exchange.
Vaping is very safe and a great replacement for smoking. Nicotine is actually, from what I understand, not much worse than caffeine. Thing about vaping is, the nicotine can be extremely concentrated in that juice. It can poison you.
I smoke cigars, but not often, so I don't plan on changing. I have friends that use vapes to help quit smoking cigarettes. I also know people who have started using vapes in order to tap the nicotine. The vapes are a good exchange.
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Here is something interesting, did anyone know the oldest proven person in the world smoked all her life. Jeanne Calment lived till 122 yrs old.
"Mme Jeanne Calment, who was listed as the world's oldest human whose birth date could be certified, died at 122. She had begun smoking as a young woman. At 117 she quit smoking (by that age she was just smoking two or three cigarettes per day because she was blind and was too proud to ask often for someone to light her cigarettes for her). But she resumed smoking when she was 118 because, as she said, not smoking made her miserable and she was too old to be made miserable. She also said to her doctor: "Once you've lived as long as me, only then can you tell me not to smoke." Good point! [USA Today, "Way to go, champ," 10/18/95].
When Mme. Calment died at 122 in l997, the new longevity champ became 116-year-old Marie-Louise Meilleur, of Canada. Mme. Meilleur had chain-smoked all her adult life (as her grandson said, "She always had a cigarette dangling from her lips as she worked,"--AP, 8/15/97, reported in Miami Herald, p. 2A). She did give up smoking, however, when she was nearly 100. "
To read more about centurions that smoked go to
http://www.forces.org/evidence/hamilton/other/oldest.htm
"Mme Jeanne Calment, who was listed as the world's oldest human whose birth date could be certified, died at 122. She had begun smoking as a young woman. At 117 she quit smoking (by that age she was just smoking two or three cigarettes per day because she was blind and was too proud to ask often for someone to light her cigarettes for her). But she resumed smoking when she was 118 because, as she said, not smoking made her miserable and she was too old to be made miserable. She also said to her doctor: "Once you've lived as long as me, only then can you tell me not to smoke." Good point! [USA Today, "Way to go, champ," 10/18/95].
When Mme. Calment died at 122 in l997, the new longevity champ became 116-year-old Marie-Louise Meilleur, of Canada. Mme. Meilleur had chain-smoked all her adult life (as her grandson said, "She always had a cigarette dangling from her lips as she worked,"--AP, 8/15/97, reported in Miami Herald, p. 2A). She did give up smoking, however, when she was nearly 100. "
To read more about centurions that smoked go to
http://www.forces.org/evidence/hamilton/other/oldest.htm