I suggest you take a read of the ingredients that are found in this junk. Actually worse than cigarette's if you can believe it. Frankly, a total ban on anything that can be taken into the lungs other than prescribed materials needs to be put into effect as it has NO beneficial value and only promotes more disease .... unfortunate, but true.
With all due respect, you are absolutely incorrect. While non-smokers should not start vaping as inhaling anything other than air is not ideal: Vaping is minimally 95% safer than smoking according to the Royal College Of Physicians in the UK (founded 501 years ago), the same group of 35,000 physicians who first claimed smoking was dangerous more than 50 years ago (while American health organizations denied the dangers).
First the truth for the motivation for the anti-vaping campaigns in America:
It gets worse, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the former Commissioner of the FDA who was vital in creating the dooming vaping regulations (which are still intact), was indicted on Racketeering and Corruption chargers with connection to Johnson & Johnson. Why does this matter? Well Johnson & Johnson are the creators of quit smoking aids like Nicorette gum, lozenges, and patches.
“While Defendant Hamburg was FDA Commissioner, her husband, Defendant Brown’s annual income, not coincidentally, increased from a reported $10 million in 2008 to an estimated $125 million in 2011 and an estimated $90 million in 2012, due in whole or in part to Defendants’ racketeering conspiracy to withhold information about the devastating, life threatening, and deadly effects of Levaquin.”
Now let's address the top anti-vaping propaganda and how every major anti-vaping headline has been debunked, of course, the scary headlines are what make the news (and that's what people such as yourself see.)
1. "E-cigarettes will lead young people into smoking"
According to Public Health England:
“Our report found no evidence so far to support the concern that e-cigarettes are a route into smoking among young people. UK surveys show that young people are experimenting with e-cigarettes, but regular use is rare and confined almost entirely to those who already smoke. Meanwhile, smoking rates among young people in the UK continue to decline.”
2. "Vaping causes popcorn lung."
This is false, simply for the fact that the Harvard study completely ignored the most relevant context, cigarettes. The naturally occuring chemical diacetyl (found in buttery flavored foods) is believed to cause scaring of the lungs. This chemical was found in vaping, what they fail to mention is that it is found at hundreds of times higher levels in cigarettes, and smoking has never caused scaring of the lungs.
3. "Vaping contains anti-freeze."
Vaping does contain Propylene Glycol which is used in Pet Safe anti-freeze. Propylene Glycol is also found in all sorts of food products we eat and drink every day. It is also pumped through hospital and restaurant ventilation systems to prevent the spreading of germs.
4. "Vaping contains formaldehyde."
This one made headlines even though it was immediately debunked as the study was completely flawed. Vaping uses cotton saturated with a vapable liquid against a heating element to allow it to vaporize. The researchers had no airflow going through the vaporizer, this means no pressure pulling the liquid into the cotton. When that cotton goes dry, it can burn (creating formaldehyde), of course this taste horrendous and no one can continue vaping when this happens. So the levels a vaper is exposed to is not dangerous, in fact you're exposed to significantly worse levels walking down a side walk in any city.
It's really depressing to know just how little most health organizations and governments truely care about our health. As with everything, it's all about $$$.
