E-cig/vapers - might want to read this
 

Since there's quite a few vaping folks here on GFY - and as an e-cig/vape user myself - I wanted to pass along preliminary findings from this new study they're releasing from Harvard.

Chemicals linked with severe respiratory disease found in common e-cigarette flavors

Chemicals linked with severe respiratory disease found in common e-cigarette flavors | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

I was vaping for a while and it did something to my lungs. It is some toxic shit. The PG or VG coats your lungs with a film and you cough shit out all the time. Most juices are just made from some experimenting hipster in his living room anyway and sold to these shops. I gave it up and just chew nicotine gum.

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I like my hookah smoking once a day and I could give a shit if it's unhealthy to me.. Everything you consume is bad for you if you dig deep enough.

I really think we should wait for WHP's youtube analysis instead of these Harvard researchers :2 cents:

Dude, get rid of that Polish Aristocrat photo... its like a ghost and its freaking me out.

I was in a Hong Kong 7/11 and ask about vaping products. They guy told me:
Hong Kong the sale and possession of nicotine-based electronic cigarettes, classified as a Type I Poison, is governed under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance. Sale or possession is not authorized and both are considered punishable with a fine of up to HK$100,000 and/or a prison term of 2 years.

He said in China they do no testing on the vape juice and make it out of anything that smells good and is cheap. They also make counterfeit U.S. made vape juice. Their factories are making this poison 24 hours a day and shipping as fast as they can to make as much money as possible before the dumb Americans figure out there killing themselfs.
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The title "Chemicals linked with severe respiratory disease found in common e-cigarette flavors" is a bit misleading...

all they found is that certain potentially harmful substances were "detected"... but that's meaningless, one could "detect" trace quantities of lead in tomatoes or trace mercury in fish and then write a headline implying that eating tomatoes or fish is dangerous...

no where did they say that these substances were detected in unsafe quantities...

The stuff I get is USP certified inhalation grade, a bit better than good grade.
You guys know how I used to do blogging while smoking 5-10 hookahs in a row, right?.. I haven't touched one hookah since getting an eHookah and I can feel the difference in breathing much better after about a month and a half. If it's flavoring that's bad for you, get it unflavored..

What the fuck is hookahs and does it get you high or just taste good? IM so lost on that shit, I tried looking it up on google but shit that was NO help.

It gets me high when I put weed in it.. ;)

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You were claiming they were harmless 6 month ago, and got arsey when people pointed out they may not be.

Good grade?.. lol, my phone meant to say "food grade" :upsidedow

I took one e-cig hit and hacked my lungs out for 3 minutes.
That was the first and last puff I took.


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Remember folks, toxic chemicals are only OK if there's a big industry behind them; they use some special magic to make them 'safe'. The toxic stuff can be safely injected via a Big Pharma vaccine or smoked from a Big Tobacco cigarette, that's the rule OK, don't let's get confused now! Big industry funds the 'safety' studies, that's why they know best.

It's just propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin and tiny bit of nicotine. It's the flavors that get you. :upsidedow

Regardless of the respiratory issues, smokeless nicotine introduction into your bloodstream will still give you all the cardiovascular problems associated with smoking cigarettes -- heart attack and stroke from arteriosclerosis ... So what is the point? Just quit smoking.

I'm sure the e-cigs are a lot less dangerous than vaccines and cigarettes

how can you pump that stuff in your lungs and think it has no effect?

Not a fan of the ecigs. I tried them for two days and got some chest pains. Like mild heartburn. Stopped and it went away. I'll stick to smoking weed or real cigarettes.

Yeah, weed is probably the best alternative to smoking. When I vape, I get the higher nicotine so that I'll hit it once or twice and I'm good for a while rather than smoking a hookah for about 45 minutes non stop.. I'm trying to quit and it helps, and no coals or tobacco to deal with..

THE TRUTH ABOUT VAPING:

Don't inhale.

Got it? I'll type it again:

DO NOT INHALE.

The ecig oil is meant to be absorbed IN THE MOUTH. It is an oil, a food (if you will), and the membranes in the mouth dissolve and absorb the oil better than the lungs. That's why you HACK when you inhale. You shouldn't be inhaling!!

When it comes to WEED vaping this is doubly (or triply) true. A joint gets you about 18% THC while a weed ecig (when NOT inhaled but held in the mouth for a few seconds then exhaled) will get you a whopping 85-90% THC!

For anyone inhaling weed vape try holding it in your mouth, like sipping in soda through a straw but not swallowing. It will KNOCK YOU OUT.

So I guess Doug Benson has been doing it right all these years! That fucker never inhales. :winkwink: :1orglaugh

Don't know who that is. LOL I know Bill Clinton supposedly didn't inhale (other than Monica Lewinsky's perfume).

I was 'doing it wrong' for a couple years by inhaling the ecig oil. But then I went on YouTube and watched a couple videos on how EXACTLY to vape to best effect. They said do not inhale but just hold the vaper in your mouth for as long as possible then exhale. When I did it right for the first time it was the highest high I have had in YEARS. Wild.

Want to go even higher? Alternate between a vape (holding it in your mouth) then smoking a joint right after. Hoo boy wowza!!

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The only thing that really gets me high anymore besides smoking a half 8 to an 8th by myself are dabs..

Well it's still better than smoking cigarettes ,probably time I quit this shit too

LOL Oh man I gotta see that shit. :)

Try mixing shit up - edibles one day, vapes another, bongs then joints then dabs....

Or, for something TRULY radical: stop for a week. :)

Honestly it was over hyped, it's more fun watching your friends get high...

My favorite high is the one that comes right after I get home from vacation or a business trip.

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Yep but I do like his YouTube sometimes. Getting Doug with High.

Mine too. When I'm not smoking I'm amazed at how much I don't miss it but when I smoke again I'm amazed I ever stopped. :)

Had the same problem, felt like it limited my breathing, so turfed it years ago.

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Why ?

You do know who owns the he biggest e-cig brands in the Uk ?

Right ?

Some people smoke em like Chimneys, wait a few years , when all the negative shit will come out about it :pimp

A lot of people are waiting to see the FDA study results...if that ever happens. They have to use up all the funding first.

In the interim...we get these other studies from Harvard to at least consider.

Jesus ducking Christmas people just quit.

OK Nancy Reagan, thanks.