The Real Dangers of Vaping Are Only Now Beginning to Be Understood

Fatherly ^ | Aug 16 '19 | Melaina Juntti

[Drango]

The Real Dangers of Vaping Are Only Now Beginning to Be Understood

Nicotine toxicity, formaldehyde, and a whole host of new carcinogens. Yes, vaping is bad for you. Perhaps, experts are starting to think, worse than cigarettes. Let’s start with some good news: Fewer teenagers are smoking than ever before. According to a January 2019 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the number of teens who smoke cigarettes daily has dropped 88 percent since the mid-1990s. But, as we all know from the cloudy corners on the outskirts of high schools, more teens are flirting with the dangers of vaping instead. Many more. Today, a whopping 21 percent of high schoolers use e-cigarettes, up from just 1.5 percent in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For middle-school kids, vaping rates rose from 0.6 percent in 2011 to 4.9 percent last year, a 49 percent increase over 2017.

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When you put all that together, it is much easier to inhale, so Juul devices deliver a much higher dose per puff.”

This may be why kids seem to be getting addicted to Juul much faster than they got hooked on traditional cigarettes and even older e-cigarettes.

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Overall, the evidence clearly shows vaping is exceptionally risky for and even immediately harmful to teens.

[Drango]

It isn't a conservative value to turn teens into addicts.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Whether vaping is harmless or not likely depends what’s in the vapor. Formaldehyde... bad. Just ask Lumber Liquidators.

[Texas Eagle]

Yes, kids. Stick to pot. Those e-cigs are bad for you.

[9YearLurker]

It’s annoying too.

[marktwain]

It isn’t a conservative value to make everything controlled by the State.

[a fool in paradise]

people vape pot too.

[Texas Eagle]

Yyyeahhh. But I’m pretty sure this article focuses on nicotine. Could be wrong. Haven’t had my coffee yet.

[cherry]

I can’t help but think this is the the tobacco/govt cabal fighting vaping because it cuts into their big money.....

[ClearCase_guy]

Coffee is bad for you.

[KC Burke]

Nicotine was a good bug killer last I looked.

I think the issue is that vape has been promoted as the healthy alternative to cigarettes and that is a fiction. Nicotine draining down you esophagus for years while you vape will give you cancer as sure as anything.

[EEGator]

Clearly you’re a White Nationalist spreading lies to hurt Brown people economies...

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

The real danger is I’m spending substantially less vaping than I was smoking. They will not let that stand.

[NativeSon]

Yeah, how about that?

Smoking and vaping = worse than Hitler!

“oh, I didn’t realize that you’re getting high!, I’ll join you “

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Since vaping looks like smoking it has to be destroyed. The cigarette nazis have turned their sights on the vape industry so I am highly skeptical of their claims. BTW I have never smoked or vaped but I can recognize a hit job when I see it.

[HighSierra5]

Yeah. Pot is good for your lungs. Just take a giant hit off a fattie or bong of some harsh smoke and hold it in your lungs. Much better than that evil tobacco. All I can say is stay away from my cigars. One of my last pleasures in life.

[big bad easter bunny]

zero evidence in this article!

[Sacajaweau]

Remember vaping and the patch and the gum etc etc was the government’s solution to smoking cigarettes.

[TalBlack]

Yeah and global warming is real too...

[Pearls Before Swine]

I can’t help but think this is the the tobacco/govt cabal fighting vaping because it cuts into their big money.....

Possibly, but remember that Altria, the biggest domestic tobacco company, spent (invested?) nearly $13 billion for a 35% share of Juul.

[DoodleBob]

The government's crusade against tobacco has been very successful. Smoking trends are way off their all-time highs (see the blue line below). My parents smoked yet nobody in the DoodleBob home smokes.

However, smoking also soothed nerves and had a societal impact as well. There was also an economic benefit, and not just in the tobacco/cigarette value chain: clubs/bars benefitted, as did live bands and acts playing in these clubs where friends got together for a drink and a smoke.

With smoking banned in most public places and many private places such as bars, there is very little live music and not as much social gathering as well. Now, correlation doesn't imply causality - people surfing the interweb wasn't caused by the demise of smoking - but we must acknowledge that when you ban some good that has been part of culture for centuries, there will be an impact. For example, with less smoking have people turned to food for comfort - is there some cause and effect in this chart?

While I'm not arguing that smoking was harmless (far from it), there was some beneficial element to smoking. As people rush to demonize vaping, let's consider what is the impact beyond "better lungs."