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Re: Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation on Vascular Function

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Post by bhalithan » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 10:07 PM UTC

InvaderFizz wrote: post #38

program_whiz wrote: post #11

Many people seem to believe that vaping is harmless, this is good to make the point clearly that vaping, while not as harmful as smoking cigarettes, isn't a "cost free" activity. I personally didn't realize that it could have these effects either.

My main concern with the way things are going is that it looks an awful lot like attacks on vaping are for the purpose of driving smokers back to cigarettes. I know of no one that things vaping is harmless. It is certainly much, much less harmful than cigarettes and is infinitely preferable to cigarettes. I quit smoking, with the help of vaping. I was a pack-a-day Newport smoker that started on a ludicrously high 36m…

I think it's probably true that Vaping is less addicting than Smoking. But I also think, that the act of Vaping/Smoking/Inhaling/Ritual also has something to do with it.

Re: Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation on Vascular Function

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Post by lowdose » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 11:54 PM UTC

grawprog wrote: post #184

lowdose wrote: post #173

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Re: Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation on Vascular Function

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Post by filoleg » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 1:28 AM UTC

tryitnow wrote: post #84

filoleg wrote: post #78

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>"attacks on vaping are for the purpose of driving smokers back to cigarettes" I don't think it is intentionally on purpose, but it sure does seem this way sometimes. A specific example that comes to mind: city of San Francisco banning sale of e-cigs completely, while keeping regular cigarettes just as legal as before [0]. 0. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/25/7357140...

Good point. I don't see any of the politicians addressing why the didn't also ban cigarettes. My guess is that banning cigarettes would go too far. It's unrealistic to expect cigarette smokers to quit over night and start using patches and lozenges. It's a little more realistic to expect that people who vape to do so.

>It's unrealistic to expect cigarette smokers to quit over night and start using patches and lozenges.

>It's a little more realistic to expect that people who vape to do so.

From personal observations, what would actually happen is that those people will just switch to smoking cigarettes.