Vaping Can Damage Vital Immune System Cells, Researchers Find (bbc.co.uk)

Vaping can damage vital immune system cells and may be more harmful than previously thought, a study suggests. Researchers found e-cigarette vapour disabled important immune cells in the lung and boosted inflammation. From a report: The researchers "caution against the widely held opinion that e-cigarettes are safe." However, Public Health England advises they are much less harmful than smoking and people should not hesitate to use them as an aid to giving up cigarettes. The small experimental study, led by Prof David Thickett, at the University of Birmingham, is published online in the journal Thorax. Previous studies have focused on the chemical composition of e-cigarette liquid before it is vaped. In this study, the researchers devised a mechanical procedure to mimic vaping in the laboratory, using lung tissue samples provided by eight non-smokers. They found vapour caused inflammation and impaired the activity of alveolar macrophages, cells that remove potentially damaging dust particles, bacteria and allergens.

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Re:Cmon life

[hwihyw]

Life Rule 1) Everything good for you is unpleasurable, everything bad for you is pleasurable.
Life Rule 2) See rule 1.

Just a drug delivery device

[Rick Schumann]

Know what's the best and most pleasant thing to inhale into your lungs? CLEAN AIR. Knock all this shit off and stop damaging yourselves, people.

To quote Mr. Burns: Excellent!

[quonset]

Now we have another set of people who believe they know more than the experts. Can't wait until a decade passes and these people start keeling over in the streets because they can't breathe then whine they were never warned of the dangers.

It will be cigarette smokers all over again except this time there won't be any sympathy. They've been warned and even if they don't hear of the warnings, common sense should indicate if you inhale toxic vapors, bad things happen.

Then again, we're talking about people who deliberately inhale toxic vapors and think they're the shizzle.

Re:To quote Mr. Burns: Excellent!

[KiloByte]

Marketing experts. Not doctors. Everyone but those who delude themselves in order to be "hip" knew that already.

For example, the main active ingredient of douche flute juice is nicotine. Nicotine content of a single pack of cigarettes is enough to kill a horse (smoking is a very inefficient way of drug delivery, thus it's usually not immediately fatal). Typical use of vape juice brings similar amounts of nicotine as smoking cigarettes. So here go any claims that vaping is "safe".

Both cigarettes and vape juice contain additional highly harmful substances. This is also widespread knowledge.

No one with more than two brain cells believes marketing drivel anymore. Those that do would also buy that bridge or follow that nice offer from a prince of Nigeria. The message provides an excuse for those who want to vape anyway. This is about the same as preferring to spread drivel about "healthy at any size" instead of stuffing oneself left.