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I sometimes feel like I'm in loony land with all the e-cigarette FUD. It doesn't take a genius to realize that the cancer causing potential of smoking lies prim
by revelation 9y ago
I sometimes feel like I'm in loony land with all the e-cigarette FUD. It doesn't take a genius to realize that the cancer causing potential of smoking lies primarily in inhaling smoke containing a large number of carcinogenic combustion products. Vaporizers completely eliminate that; it's why "medical marijuana" is a thing, they couldn't prescribe it when the side-effect is cancer.
- infecto 9y agoWhile I agree I think the one unfortunate side effect, that i do not have quantitative evidence of, is that more people are vaping who would not have picked up cigarettes. It could be purely anecdotal evidence but it sure seems like it.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoAt this point I'm convinced that this e-cig FUD is a combination of intentional misinformation and general population not being able to think clearly about degrees of things. One would think that "a significantly less harmful thing is better than a harmful thing" is a tautology, but apparently it's not obvious to everyone.
- j0rd 9y agoIt would be better if I quit, but wasn't planning on doing that, so I switched to vaping and haven't smoked since. Best? No. Better? Probably. One of the funny things with vaping is after two weeks smoking a cigarette becomes disgusting. I'd say it's also a lot easier to quit vaping than smoking cigarettes. So that as well is a move in the correct direction.