02/04/2017
How bad and dangerous is va**ng?
For me this is one of the most important topics to speak about. I get so many messages everyday asking if Va**ng is bad…
”Can i get cancer from va**ng?”
”Va**ng has to be worst, because there is more ”smoke”!”
”Is va**ng the same as a Hookah?”
and so on…
I can’t reply to all and a single answer often don’t deals justice and leads to many follow up questions.
So I decided to dedicate my first blog post to this question and topic:
How bad is Va**ng?!
Everything new that appears opens a lack of knowledge. Research has to be done and experience has to be collected.
Same applies to va**ng. So when the first electronic ci******es appeared, on paper and visible tests like the napkin-test the E-Cig looked much less harmful.
Which over the first years dragged many people from the dark smoker to the bright v**er site.
There was not much research needed to find the va**ng industry as the cause.
That was the start of the big fight we are still fighting today.
Many questions (some of them justified) but also many rumors started to hover of the v**e industry.
All the V**er i know till then were happy and felt better since the switch to va**ng, so for me it was clear that va**ng was way better than smoking.
But negative rumors and bad news are like a virus. Once started, it’s very hard to control or even manage them.
The biggest rumors:
”Ni****ne causes cancer!”
Ni****ne is proven to be as harmful as caffeine. It can make you addicted but it is not a carcinogen that causes cancer.
”Electronic Ci******es are explosive devices!”
Backed by many videos that popped up on the internet and got shared on every single news channel possible.
People got the idea that V**e devices are military technology and only for war use.
Yes, these videos are real…. BUT… the cause for the accidents is a unsafe use of the batteries.
The power source of a E-cig is the same as in every Mobil-phone or Laptop. These batteries are very powerful and store a lot of energy…
When such a power sources is not handled correctly and in the worst case shorten, they discharge their stored energy in a few seconds which can lead to a explosion.
So all incidents could be explained by the use of cheap and unsafe batteries or the wrong use or storage.
Used correctly a V**e is as safe as a smartphone.
”Va**ng is inhaling toxic chemicals!”
The Liquid used in E-cigs to produce the v**e is made out of 4 different ingredients.
VG (Vegetable Glycerin)
PG (Propylene Glycol)
Flavor
Ni****ne
PG and VG are used in the Food and Cosmetic Industry and they are not known to be toxic or carcinogen. Those are the same substances used to produce the v**e in clubs and movies.
The flavors used are the same you can find in the food industry to give food and drinks their taste. Also not known to be toxic and approved by the government.
”E-cigs produce smoke aswell!”
The biggest misunderstanding about E-cigs is that, different to the conventional cigarette, nothing is burned in the E-cig.
The V**e is generated by heating up the Liquid so that it vaporizes.
Best way to visualize it is to imagine you are burning paper (conventional cigarette) vs heating up water until it vaporizes (electronic cigarette).
Now decide for yourself, which result is the safer to inhale.
Any new rumors or questions will be added to this list.
But all the latest serious researches I read about the danger of va**ng came to the conclusion that va**ng is 95% less harmful/dangerous/bad as smoking conventional ci******es.
Sure, the best is to just inhale fresh air. But I’m not addressing non smokers.
I want to show smokers a safer why to get their nicotin dose and if they wish even get off that addiction without the withdrawal phenomenas.
So don’t let the media, backed by the to***co and pharma lobby, brainwash you with fake news.
I hope I could answer some of your questions or clarify uncertainties
