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The Real Dangers of Vaping Are Only Now Beginning to Be Understood
Fatherly ^ | Aug 16 '19 | Melaina Juntti

Posted on 08/17/2019 4:55:31 AM PDT by 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.


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KEYWORDS: ecigs; smoking; vaping
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To: Drango

It’s a drug delivery device for administering the drug nicotine. Regulate and tax accordingly.

Nothing is made better by addicting people to nicotine.


21 posted on 08/17/2019 5:56:06 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: bigbob

Econ 101. The iron law of supply & demand still works.

As the price of an object increases the demand drops.


22 posted on 08/17/2019 5:59:59 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: DoodleBob

Well said!


23 posted on 08/17/2019 6:01:15 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Drango
"It isn't a conservative value to turn teens into addicts. ul.”

It isn't a conservative value to nag adults about what choices they make.

24 posted on 08/17/2019 6:05:23 AM PDT by RedMonqey (num)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
"Whether vaping is harmless or not likely depends what’s in the vapor. Formaldehyde... bad. Just ask Lumber Liquidators.”

Regular cigs have Formaldehyde too.
25 posted on 08/17/2019 6:07:00 AM PDT by RedMonqey (num)
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To: RedMonqey

It isn’t a conservative value to not understand the article.


26 posted on 08/17/2019 6:07:41 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: RedMonqey
Regular cigs have Formaldehyde too.

Still? I had heard about that in the past.

I don't know if it is necessary to have formaldehyde in the vape capsules to deliver nicotine or not, or why it was there in the first place. I could hazard a guess that it might have been there as a preservative, but don't really know.

27 posted on 08/17/2019 6:10:50 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: HighSierra5
"Yeah. Pot is good for your lungs. ”

Had a friend in high school who was a pothead, he introduced me to pot, which didn't do a thing for me but I tolerated his pot smoking. Funny thing is his kid brother and i was smoking a cigarette, which I didn't think nothing of but his brother came out and berated the kid brother up and down for smoking. I stepped back not wanting to be drag into family business but I was thinking "You hypocrite, we were just "smoking" last night."
28 posted on 08/17/2019 6:14:15 AM PDT by RedMonqey (num)
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To: Drango

I was in an ER waiting room recently and there was a couple vaping...blowing out billowing clouds of their disgusting shyte. I approached a hospital guard standing at the counter and asked if smoking was allowed in the waiting room...he said “no” in kind of a shocked manner. I said “how about vaping?”. Again he said no. I pointed at the couple, and he was off to run’em out.

People are just idiots.


29 posted on 08/17/2019 6:14:17 AM PDT by moovova
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To: ClearCase_guy; Texas Eagle
Coffee will Kill You, Until it Won’t, and Other Fake Health News
30 posted on 08/17/2019 6:21:41 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I must admit I haven’t kept up with the latest on cigarettes. I’m a non smoker who grew up in a family who did smoke and our farm grew both dark fired and burley tobacco. So we have a yin=yang relationship.

But I don’t put people down for their choices, just live with the consequences.


31 posted on 08/17/2019 6:22:15 AM PDT by RedMonqey (num)
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To: 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.

I'm with you. The Anti-Smoking Nazis are doing the same with vaping as with smoking. But pot is OK though.

I quit 3-packs a day 20 years ago and I don't vape. But it's obvious what is going on with the anti-vaping.

32 posted on 08/17/2019 6:22:29 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Liberals - anathema to a free thinking society.)
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To: Drango

I read the article.

I just don’t treat teenagers as children but young adults learning to make adult decisions.

Some decisions are bad, they know smoking isn’t a health enhancers.


33 posted on 08/17/2019 6:25:25 AM PDT by RedMonqey (num)
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To: DoodleBob
Of course, stay healthy

34 posted on 08/17/2019 6:41:48 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: DoodleBob

Two other factors:

1) Social Security going broke was SOLVED for at least the next 100 years with the deal Reagan and Congress agreed to in 1986. Now its cost is growing twice as fast, and it won’t even make it half of that time. What changed? People live longer when they don’t smoke.

2) Medical costs have gone through the roof for the elderly. What changed? Instead of dying relatively quickly and cheaply of smoking-related illnesses, people live much longer...and spend a lot more on medical stuff over those extra years.

One could also argue that the obesity/diabetes epidemic seems to correlate quite well with the reduction of smoking, although there are bigger factors involved with that huge problem.


35 posted on 08/17/2019 6:43:44 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: DoodleBob
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.

Do you have any evidence to back up that assertion? A cursory examination from my own experience shows no reduction of live band/bar music performances compared to those 25 years ago.

The increase in obesity could simply be due to the prevalence of more sedentary occupations as computer-aided desk jobs proliferated in the past generation since the introduction of the PC in the early 1980s, as seen by the inflection point in the red line.

36 posted on 08/17/2019 6:52:56 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Drango

If it’s any form of smoke I don’t want it in my mouth, sinuses or lungs.
This coming from an ex smoker of cigarettes and pot quitting decades ago.


37 posted on 08/17/2019 7:21:10 AM PDT by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: Drango

Isn’t there a statistic out there of the life expectancy of male smokers vs. Homos? Something like 65 vs 48? Why don’t they talk about THAT?


38 posted on 08/17/2019 7:28:00 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: Drango

Stupid is as stupid does.


39 posted on 08/17/2019 8:09:03 AM PDT by bgill
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To: nwrep; dp0622
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.

Do you have any evidence to back up that assertion? A cursory examination from my own experience shows no reduction of live band/bar music performances compared to those 25 years ago.

It's is a biased sample but in NYC there was a thriving live music scene for new, unsigned bands in the 1990s-early 2000s. On Bleecker St there were many places where bands could get a set without having to pay to play, and they'd get asked back if they drew 20+ people.

Then the smoking ban came into effect. One YUGE venue went out of business because, as the owner's son told me, people used to hang all night. With the ban, people would walk outside for a smoke after their friend's band's set...and not return. Drink sales collapsed and they quit. Other places folded, too.

Nowadays there are very few places where a band can play unless they pay to play. Those who DO pay bring in their 10 fans and then they leave after their set. To be fair, this partly the bands' own undoing - you need a SCENE to have people come to a venue. Indeed, one place in North Jersey that caters to hard rock and heavy metal has achieve this, though there is some pay for plat at times. But in my travels along the eastern seaboard, there aren't too many places left like those from the "good old days."

Is this ALL due to the smoking ban? Probably not. Do ALL people hate bans? I do on philosophical grounds (it is a type of taking of private property rights without just compensation) but I like that my clothes don't smell like cigarettes - but I would rather suffer the latter than endure the former. Did anyone care about the collateral damage to smoking bans? No...like all statist policies, they only care about the first-order effects.

40 posted on 08/17/2019 8:17:31 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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