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'I thought my e-cigarette was a miracle. Turns out, I was smoking the equivalent of 40-a-day'
The Telegraph ^ | Aug 27, 2014 | Rachael Lloyd

Posted on 09/04/2014 12:28:39 PM PDT by DannyTN

When Rachael Lloyd took up vaping, she thought she'd stumbled across a miracle alternative to smoking. Little did she know, her e-cigarette wasn't quite as guilt-free as she'd assumed - as the World Health Organisation is now starting to realise

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Two days later I scurried to my doctor for a second opinion. She asked exactly how much vapour I was consuming per hour. “Up to forty inhalations an hour on a particularly stressful day,” I admitted. According to her, I was inhaling the equivalent of 40 fags a day – at least in terms of nicotine. There was no doubt about it, I was a vape addict.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ecigs; nicotine
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To: SVTCobra03

vaping is not smoking. It is water vapor. What is she griping about anyway. At least she is not inhaling the tar and other by products just the nicotine.


101 posted on 09/04/2014 4:13:27 PM PDT by waxer1 (A Republic if you can keep it--Benjamin Franklin. Well we lost it.)
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To: publius911
Because I can never be convinced that there is such a large percentage of the population that are dangerously stupid.

How much evidence do you need?

102 posted on 09/04/2014 5:09:49 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: apillar

LOL!


103 posted on 09/04/2014 5:12:15 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

I am a non-smoker who has given four friends an Ego-T tank system electronic cigaret as a gift. The friends varied from moderate social cigaret smokers to a heavy three pack a day smoker. Only one still vapes and smokes occasionally. She uses non-nicotine e-juice but will bum a real cigaret off a friend occasionally to smoke with them socially. . . but always says it tastes horrible. The rest, including the three-packer have quit completely! It took just three months to four months for them to stop.

That is what terrifies the tobacco companies.


104 posted on 09/05/2014 3:10:17 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: GeronL
30-60 mg is a deadly dose for humans

even if absorbed through the skin

That's true, but very few people buy pure nicotine. I get my juice in varying doses. A 39ml bottle will have anywhere from 0 to 16mg in it.  It takes quite a while to go through an entire bottle, even if you're vaping pretty much constantly.

105 posted on 09/05/2014 8:57:32 AM PDT by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: Swordmaker
That is what terrifies the tobacco companies.

And the government.

106 posted on 09/05/2014 9:31:03 AM PDT by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: DannyTN

Anti smokers are going to bash vaping to keep the crusade alive

Like MADD or SPLC and so forth

My wife smoked a pack a day of Marlboro Lights until 9 months ago

Then she trued Blues etc.....worked a little... better than nothing

So I bought her a fancy vape nail

She started on 24mg saffire tobacco flavor

Now she’s on 8mg....not sure how low she’ll get

Is it completely risk free...I doubt anyone knows

But her coughing and congestion is gone

No heat or sugars or additives etc going into her lungs and cardiovascular

Nicotine itself is not particularly harmful unless overdosed or inhaled as smoke

But the anti cigarette mob has vested itself so much they are not likely to let smokers off so easily


107 posted on 09/05/2014 9:43:01 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: GeronL

I hear Hale Boggs is not dead actually and is really a 100 year old piano player in Farbourg Marginy

We all hear things...


108 posted on 09/05/2014 9:47:03 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: US Navy Vet
“My understanding is that it isn’t the nicotine that is the carcinogen”, No nicotine is not a “carcinogen”, it’s a POISON!

What, are you a pharmacist? Hell yes it's a poison, so is alcohol. The dose is what's important in case of both substances.

If you vape too much too soon you get "nic sick" and have a bellyache; then you cut back your usage.

I've been vaping steadily for several years now and it's been a positive change from cigarettes.

109 posted on 09/05/2014 11:50:22 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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