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With tobacco use already on a rapid decline, here comes to FDA, late to the party. But they're going to claim credit for it later, rest assured.
by rufusroflpunch 9y ago
With tobacco use already on a rapid decline, here comes to FDA, late to the party. But they're going to claim credit for it later, rest assured.
- jacquesm 9y agoDepending on the demographic it may not be in decline at all.
- henryw 9y agoIt seems like a lot of my younger friends are using a "juul", which has a ton of nicotine in it. I'm kind of scared for them.
- opportune 9y agoNicotine by itself is not dangerous. There's a VERY common misconception that nicotine itself is carcinogenic, while there is actually insufficient evidence for that. It's the tobacco, tar, and carbon monoxide that are responsible for most of the adverse effects of nicotine products. The only concern with vapes like the juul is that while their base components are safe to vape, sometimes they use flavors which are not very well studied (and which, when heated, may degrade into carcinogenic chemicals).
- JauntTrooper 9y agoWhile nicotine itself may not be a carcinogen, there's evidence it encourages the growth/spread of cancer and and increases the likelihood of recurrence. It might be inhibiting antitumor immune responses. [0] [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/
- camiller 9y agoAlso, I believe, with vapes that some carcinogenic compounds are created when the liquid is vaporized. That is to say some small part of it burns on contact with the heating element in the vaporizer and some of those combustion byproducts are cancer causing.
- Semaphor 9y agoThe problem is the food flavouring which has been extensively tested... as food flavouring and not when vaporized and inhaled (and there's the whole thing about to which temperature it's heated). Personally I believe (and afaik current science supports that) vaping to be far safer, but it's probably not safe and there are a lot of unknowns left.
- surement 9y agoE-cigarettes are not really vaporizers. What they do is heat and aerosolize the e-liquid. Small particles of certain substances can be harmful.
- surement 9y ago> There's a VERY common misconception that nicotine itself is carcinogenic, while there is actually insufficient evidence for that It's because of the obnoxious metonymy "nicotine -> cigarette smoke" that appears even in research paper titles.
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- digitalzombie 9y agoThe tobacco branch was added in 2009. NCTR research or any scientific research is not going to come out super fast. https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofMedicalProductsandTobacco/AbouttheCenterforTobaccoProducts/ucm383225.htm https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofMedicalP... disclaimer: my view is my personal view and not that of FDA.
- cbhl 9y agoThat lag time is unfortunate. At this point I'd want to see research on regulating and stigmatizing marijuana use. (One of the first things Canada did when making marijuana legal was to make "no smoking" zones extend to marijuana, too.)
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