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> 18 and 19 year olds are in commas, dead right now, or will be soon. This is killing people far faster than cigarettes. According to the article, 5 people hav
by ac29 7y ago
> 18 and 19 year olds are in commas, dead right now, or will be soon. This is killing people far faster than cigarettes.
According to the article, 5 people have died due to this vaping related illness. By contrast, cigarette smoking kills 480,000 people a year in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
- amluto 7y agoAnd this is a more or less useless comparison. Juul has only existed at all for about 4 years. Smoking kills huge numbers of people, but not in 4 years. AFAIK, the data is consistent with vaping being more dangerous than smoking. For what it’s worth, humans evolved in the presence of fire. Plant smoke, while quite dangerous, is something that mammal lungs have dealt with, in moderation, forever. Whatever chemical soup is present in vaping vapor is new. And saying “it’s just glycerol” makes no sense. Glycerol has very small vapor pressure at body temperature and boils well above the boiling point of water. Some websites suggest that the actual output from vaping is quite nasty indeed.