AdanacEuropean girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group
Calling vaping tobacco use is like likening a painkiller to eating tree bark.
Yes the nicotine comes from tobacco, but hundreds of other compounds are removed, and smoking or chewing tobacco is cancerous, AFAIK vaping is not, or more precisely less than 1% the toxicity of tobacco.
Yes the nicotine comes from tobacco, but hundreds of other compounds are removed, and smoking or chewing tobacco is cancerous, AFAIK vaping is not, or more precisely less than 1% the toxicity of tobacco.
AxolotlWhich makes sense since the base is relatively close to a sugar-alcohol. But that would probably be per gram.
So if you vape 2 ml per day (moderate use), and compare that to drinking 1 beer per day (also moderate use). The beer is 33cl of 4.5% alcohol (vol) = 15ml alcohol in one beer, or 10.5 grams, where 10 grams is 1 standard drink.
So by that measure vaping 2 ml is 1/7th as likely to cause cancer as drinking 1 beer.
I personally stopped vaping a few years ago, after being a heavy smoker for many years. The maximum I ever vaped was less than 5 ml per day as a former heavy smoker.
In EU we have limits on how powerful the vape can be, and how big the tanks can be. So I doubt many of those girls even vape 2ml per day.
Apart from the dependency on nicotine, it is mostly harmless.
Your logic on comparing propyleneglycol with ethanol and it causing cancer is just jank. Also so far there are no studies that say vaping under normal conditions causes cancer. Rather if vapes that are set wrongly, heating the mixture too much that it forms chemical byproducts like formaldehyde, then a risk of cancer may be present, since for example formaldehyde is a proven carcinogen. However such overheating will also cause injury to the user such as throat and lung injury, which is highly unpleasant and will cause a user to exert more caution.
if vapes that are set wrongly, heating the mixture too much that it forms chemical byproducts like formaldehyde,
That causes dry puffs, and taste so bad that nobody would vape that. The only research papers I have seen warning about formaldehyde were fucking rigged. On paper measured the formaldehyde in a small room, and the levels they measured were consistrent with the amount of formaldehyde we exhale ourselves without vaping. Another that created dry puffs was measured by a machine doing the overheated “vaping”, that no human would ever do.
Again these compounds have been found to be very safe for many decades, to a degree they have even been used in kindergartens to prevent respiratory disease, in asthma inhalers and in stage smoke machines.