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E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu)
An anonymous reader shares a report: A study by chemists at the University of Connecticut offers new evidence that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are potentially as harmful as tobacco cigarettes. Using a new low-cost, 3-D printed testing device, UConn researchers found that e-cigarettes loaded with a nicotine-based liquid are potentially as harmful as unfiltered cigarettes when it comes to causing DNA damage. The researchers also found that vapor from non-nicotine e-cigarettes caused as much DNA damage as filtered cigarettes, possibly due to the many chemical additives present in e-cigarette vapors. Cellular mutations caused by DNA damage can lead to cancer.
E-Cigarettes don't have any tar, which is truly nasty stuff, and that makes them better than tobacco. But I am willing to believe that they are bad for you. Nicotine is fairly nasty (and highly addictive) on its own.
There are proof electronic cigarettes are at least 97% less harmfull then smoking, so please stop it publishing crap like this. I am a vaper and I do a lot of research in this subject. Do yours.
Yeah, a "chain-smoking" sort of addiction to anything is going to be bad for you, but with vapor you don't have all that tar in your lungs. Be careful of the ingredients in your e-juice so you don't get popcorn lung, and you're way better off compared to conventional cigarettes.
It's better to figure out how to get a natural high, and it's better to wake up in the morning with energy naturally instead of needing coffee, but if you're still smoking tobacco then stop today and switch to e-cigs. Your future self will thank you a million times.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I'm not sure why this is modded flamebait. For one thing, no, they're flameless. For another it's accurate. Who the fuck thought "Yeah, another delivery vehicle for the chemical that defines addiction, that's something we should allow. What? We don't know whether it's less lethal than cigarettes? I'm sure it's fine. Besides, the government needs to save it's resources to fight the evil that is marijuana."
For some it is easy, for others it's harder than quitting an addiction like alcohol or opioids. (Source: I've worked in homeless shelters and talked to addicts about it).
For me, it was easy the first time to go cold turkey. I was 17 and I'd been smoking for three years. When I started smoking again 18 years later and then quit three years after that, it was really difficult. The nicotine had really taken hold for some reason the second time. I finally turned to Nicorette gum, and in that moment when I popped that little cube in my mouth and the craving just dissipated, I realized I'd been a drug addict.
Been smoke free for nearly 20 years, and it's definitely the best decision from a health standpoint I've ever made.
Tell that to the people I know who went from smoking 1-2 packs a day of cigarettes, to e-cigs/vaping, and now don't even smoke at all.
I'd be fine with that statement if that's all this was about, but it's not: There are people who are going from being non-smokers to 'vaping' thinking it's somehow healthier than smoking, which is just plain not true. Also do you really think the tobacco companies are interested in anything other than perpetuating their own industry regardless of what it does to people's health? It's been shown over and over and over again that they just don't care how many peoples' health are affected or die, they rely on the addictive qualities of nicotine to ensure repeat business (up until their customers die, that is), and have clandestinely tried to get kids started smoking at an early age so they have 'lifelong customers'. In every way shape or form you could imagine the tobacco industry resembles any other drug-dealing operation you could imagine. They don't need any help in the form of the FDA turning a blind eye to vaping.
A lot of people still think smoking is cool, but somehow an e-cig is like sucking on a dildo.
Nobody still thinks smoking is cool. I never thought I'd see the day when smoking marijuana carries less of a social stigma than smoking tobacco.
Disclaimer: I smoke.
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