After all, the average cigarette has some 4,000 chemical compounds, including dozens of confirmed carcinogens, while my e-cig cartridges contained just five: distilled water, nicotine, glycerin, propylene glycol, and some flavoring.Thats a flimsy argument: something with lots of scary chemicals is less dangerous than something with just a few scary chemicals. Firstly that propylene glycol, largely responsible for making your breath look like a cloud of mist, is also found in fog machines used in concerts and has been linked to chronic lung problems among stagehands
In addition to the smoking schedule described above, participants who were smokers smoked to satiety in an outdoor area adjacent to the PET/CT scanner during the 10 min prior to scanning (18 of 25 smokers smoked 1 cigarette [range, 0.52.0 cigarettes])
While they wont prepare you for the real tobacco experience, they might transport you back to simpler times, when your biggest worry was whether you could trade them for a pack of gum
Even without much testing on vaping and an unregulated industry vaping could be a much healthier alternative to cigarettes
Person 1: Sh*t mate