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Here's my experienced-based concern about vaping. I've spent a lot of time in a medicinal/organic chemistry synthesis labs. During which I have often been aro
by theophrastus 11y ago
Here's my experienced-based concern about vaping. I've spent a lot of time in a medicinal/organic chemistry synthesis labs. During which I have often been around synthetic set-ups involving drawing smaller organic compounds over heated metal, (sometimes specifically catalytic), elements in order to render them reactive for the next synthetic step. Oftentimes the assumption is that an intermediate free-radical is thereby generated. Vaping juice has a variety of (poorly regulated) smaller organic solvent and flavor-ant compounds in it, which are drawn over a heated metal element. Free radicals are often implicated as carcinogenic. Of course, i have no clinical data; but you can at least see where my concern comes from.
- sophacles 11y agoMost of the flavorings in vaping juice are just the stuff that's added to food for the same flavors. In fact, most of it is sold to be used in food products. Some exotic flavors differ, but mostly its just food flavorings. So how does this differ from using flavored oils in a cooking pan?
- theophrastus 11y agoHow does it differ? Well, for one thing you're not specifically repeatedly drawing the vapor from your cooking pan into your lungs; one hopes. For another the oil itself is not generally consumed but left behind after the cooking is done. Or so I gather, i'm no cook, but if oil cooking is done correctly hardly any of the oil remains on the food. Then there are some notable differences between a bit of food which is able to boil off its water content (keeping its own mass from getting to any ionization point) versus a tiny air-borne droplet of glycol or whatever. Anyway, i'd tend to wait at least a decade or so before the research was in. Just think how many years of tobacco smoking was going on before publicly declared a health hazard.