re: Is vaping as bad as the experts now say?

I switched to a vape about a year ago. The good thing is it's much much cheaper and I don't smell like cigarettes. The bad thing is that I can vape anywhere. Sneak in a bathroom at a restaurant, hit my vape. Sit at home read a book, hit my vape. Sit on my couch and football, hit my vape.

Ya'll see where I'm going with this? I'm always hitting on the vape.

I'm sure ya'll will turn this into I'm a homo and sucking on other things too, so do with me as you like...

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You trust the OT over the science based findings?

Let me guess...MAGA?

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”science based”

Flower only bub. Traditionalist

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You just see a lot of anecdotes, and a lot of PSAs directed at young people. I wouldn't want to declare vaping safe, but the stuff you've seen is probably just fluff and hand-wringing.

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Several people have died from compromised vape cartridges. It’s not just some fluff and hand wringing.

It’s not regulated. And when buying THC cartridges off the street, they’re loading them up with shite like Vitamin E which can destroy your lungs when consumed through vapor.

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Hope you don’t like breathing, baw

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Plenty of studies which show that it’s safer in LA to just smoke a pack a day.

Looks like the real nicotine Vapes are not the issue but the weed carts , obviously smoking anything isn’t good for your lungs this is especially not good

While it can't be good for you, I'm pretty confident big tobacco has been involved with some of these studies.

You’re inhaling chemicals into your lungs. What could be wrong about that? Are people really this stupid to think that putting this shite into your lungs on a regular basis won’t have health consequences?

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Several people have died from compromised vape cartridges. It’s not just some fluff and hand wringing.

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Maybe I misinterpreted things, but I thought this was more about the health effects of vaping than about the physical danger of the device. To draw an analogy, if someone asked "how bad is smoking?" I would be thinking about lung disease, not the risk of burning down your house.

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It’s not regulated.

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It's really not, and I think that's where a lot of the negative publicity is coming from. Regulating drugs is a huge industry, and people are scrambling to get in on the vape regulation game: public health experts, NGOs, etc.

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And when buying THC cartridges off the street, they’re loading them up with shite like Vitamin E which can destroy your lungs when consumed through vapor.

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Again, maybe I'm applying my own filter here, but I would tend to think that stuff is on the fringes. I was thinking more about people using a Juul or Vuze, many of whom used to smoke.