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Some people have had serious lung damage due to vaping. If that's a reference to a spate of "popcorn lung" cases of THC vapers, where it's suspected that the j
by inejge 3y ago
Some people have had serious lung damage due to vaping.
If that's a reference to a spate of "popcorn lung" cases of THC vapers, where it's suspected that the juice was laced with vitamin E, you might as well say that Tylenol is deadly because someone once spiked it with cyanide†. Don't put junk in the juice, regulate the ingredients. I'm saying this as a non-vaper and non-smoker, if it makes any difference.
†I know, I know, acetaminophen _is_ deadly is you overdose on it. That's not what I'm talking about here.
- mil22 3y agoSome, but not all [1]: "... the remaining 17% reported using only nicotine-containing vaping products... It is believed that the non-THC/CBD vapers who were diagnosed with EVALI were actually suffering from disparate vaping-associated lung diseases caused by different toxins within the aerosols or different host responses to the inhalants." Note that many of the toxic chemicals referred to in this paper are normal components of nicotine vape juice, including but not limited to the flavorings, so the comparison to spiking Tylenol with cyanide is not particularly apt. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10228557/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10228557/
- inejge 3y agoThe comparison to Tylenol spiking is perfectly apt if you consider the whole category of toxic adulterants as the noxious agent. (I know that THC/vit-E wasn't the totality of cases. You can only go so far without drowning in pedantry.) Moreover, it seems to have been a very North American phenomenon. Europe is quite vape-mad and you can count the number of vape-related lung injuries on one hand.