(June 28, 2019 at 11:14 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Don't smoke or vape myself. From what little I know about the subject, there's far less information about all the stuff in e-cigs than in regular tobacco. Vaping may or may not be safer than traditional smoking (there may be fewer carcinogens, but the bigger nicotine dose may have its own problems). The one thing that seems certain is that it's not safe in any meaningful way.
And that's where I think we get into an interesting place in defining what's "healthy" and what isn't. Is it safer because you're not inhaling smoke even though you may be more addicted to the higher doses of nicotine contained in a vape pen hit? That's a good question. I think I would rather see people consuming vaporized nicotine than smoke from burned plant material, but arguments can easily be made both ways, especially considering, as you've pointed out, that we don't yet know a lot about the e-cigarettes and related products; in the US a lot of this stuff isn't even FDA regulated yet.
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