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One way of knowing this would be by reading studies conducted by the national health organisations of several countries, see my other comment in this thread.
by mastazi 7y ago
One way of knowing this would be by reading studies conducted by the national health organisations of several countries, see my other comment in this thread.
- shkkmo 7y agoThe one study says that current best estimates place vaping at ~20x safer, or a single order of magnitude. The other provides no concrete numbers. There appears to be a lot of dispute about those numbers are unrealisticlly high and concerns about conflicts of interest. The wikipedia article provides lots of references on those disputes: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_electronic_cigarettes#Positives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_electronic_cigarette... Specifically, the study itself states "A limitation of this study is the lack of hard evidence for the harms of most products on most of the criteria"
- rhizome 7y agoSpecifically, the study itself states "A limitation of this study is the lack of hard evidence for the harms of most products on most of the criteria" You could apply the same assessment to strawberries, no? Can't estimate the harm caused by something for which we don't have evidence of harm.
- shkkmo 7y agoIt is unclear what your point is. Did somebody claim that strawberries are orders of magnitudes safer than cigarettes? My point is that there are good reasons to view the number presented in that report as very preliminary and unreliable.