A Cardiologist Interview

[maccafan]

Great video. A bit longish but well worth watching..

[Tetsab]

Wow. (I badly need a little smiley here who is having his socks blown off!!)

A bit longish, he says! You certainly weren't kidding there - but I don't want to put people off having a look, just recommend they get comfy and arm themselves with a cuppa before clicking the link. (I would just say that I'm really glad I watched this ahead of our imminent transfer to BT as broadband provider with a per-month usage limit which is now beginning to worry me a bit...)

I actually took a load of notes down while watching this as it is simply crammed with really good, solid information which the gentleman concerned has drawn together along with his OWN study data. It's absolutely riveting stuff if you are interested, which I am. Overall it is simply GREAT news for everyone who has swapped over to vaping.

I really can't spare the time today to transcribe all my notes and give a detailed description of everything that is included in this interview here, but I've got to say that if even a fraction of the people who will be seeing this guy's presentation at the huge Cardiology Congress he mentioned (in August) take what he has to say on board this can only be good news for vapers.

In brief: This is a show called (I think) VPLive done by an outfit who call themselves Vape Team. The cardiologist mentioned in the thread title is one Konstantinos Farsalinos MD, of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre in Greece.

He has conducted a study examining the cardio-vascular effects of vaping versus smoking, using experienced vapers. His results have been so positive that from being a smoker at the start of the study he made the change to vaping himself after examining the results from the first 15 subjects.

He will be presenting his findings and conclusions at a large medical conference in August. The European Heart Journal will publish this (in abstract) following this event and he also expects to publish his study and data in full at some point in the future, though from what he said this is a process which could be quite a few months away.

The show itself is in effect a very detailed preview of his presentation. He did come out with a fairly snappy (and quotable) one-liner which summarises his view of e-cigs rather nicely - "Banning electronic cigarettes would be an ethical crime".

He takes this view as he acknowledges that taking e-cigs away from people who have now been vaping for several years would condemn them to returning to tobacco use - the worst possible outcome.

I'm not sure how you find all this stuff, Macca - you must be spending far more time in front of a pc than is good for you; but THANKYOU. This has brightened up my Sunday no end!

[Bluefish]

Very informative, great find macca, loved the slide showing the differance in harmfull products of between 1ml of e juice and 1 cigarette WOW

[Bluefish]

should be a sticky

[Globalbloke (Tim)]

Wow, just wow, very much worth a look for everyone who has concerns about vaping. I think this needs summarising for all to see. The issue now for me is the suppliers of eliquid and a more stringent format for its production so we are all definitely sure that what is in the bottle is what we are vaping.

Fantastic find!

[maccafan]

Just realised, posted this in the wrong forum.. :-[

[Queenie Bee]

Very interesting vape on peeps

[Gordy]

May 26, 2012 16:49:57 GMT maccafan said:

Just realised, posted this in the wrong forum.. :-[

wrong forum or area of forum macca ?

[maccafan]

I meant to post it in "Promoting,campaigning & News articles about Vaping"