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

quote:

---

Anything, other than oxygen, that you put in your lungs is not good for you. It's just common sense.

---

Putting pure oxygen exclusively in your lungs is a bad idea.



As for the effects of e-cigs vs cigarettes, little is really known, but most of the places I have looked since one of the Pulmonary publications (I think it was CHEST in around 8/2015 but could not find exactly what I was thinking of, then got lazy) first described it is that there is a high incidence of dual-use of cigarettes and vaping, something between 65 and 85% from what I recall and depending on the article in question.
The article was basically, "should we, doctors, recommend e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool?"
The answer at the time, and from the most recent time I reviewed it which has probably been near a year ago, was, "most people will still use both, so recommending it to all as an effective therapy probably isn't best" and the other was something like, "the product is so unregulated and the use of cigarettes in this population is so high, and the product is so new that long term data that is good quality is a long way off to really determine cancer and COPD rates vs smoking cigarettes"


When people ask, I'll often tell them that it's probably not worse than a cigarette though it could very easily eventually be associated with its own certain handful of unique problems, and realistically most people that do try to use it to quit smoking do wind up still doing both.


Someone earlier mentioned the recent bout of lung injuries from vaping- the State Medical Board actually had a little release on the matter recently, but the nail was already pretty much hit on the head- it seems to be a Vitamin E acetate product that vaporizes then solidifies in the lungs, and it has really been associated just with THC-containing...what do you call them? Juices, cartridges, products, etc? That is simply a theory though, and it is not certain yet.