Are eCigs REALLY safe?

[Monki]

I was wondering about the water in vape juice... although I see a lot of people who've been vaping over a year now which made me think my query was irrelevant.

I was thinking, is there a potential risk of the water in vapour (that's not been completely exhaled) settling in the lungs and causing problems? I guess the amount is so small its nothing a cough or 2 wouldn't expel anyway

[Banky]

Feb 6, 2013 21:34:28 GMT Monki said:

I was wondering about the water in vape juice... although I see a lot of people who've been vaping over a year now which made me think my query was irrelevant.

I was thinking, is there a potential risk of the water in vapour (that's not been completely exhaled) settling in the lungs and causing problems? I guess the amount is so small its nothing a cough or 2 wouldn't expel anyway

I dont see that the water in vapour in our lungs would do us any harm. Just the same as sauna or a Turkish bath wouldn't.

[Moon]

Feb 6, 2013 21:34:28 GMT Monki said:

I was wondering about the water in vape juice... although I see a lot of people who've been vaping over a year now which made me think my query was irrelevant.

I was thinking, is there a potential risk of the water in vapour (that's not been completely exhaled) settling in the lungs and causing problems? I guess the amount is so small its nothing a cough or 2 wouldn't expel anyway

I think you've more chance of electrocuting yourself with a battery than you have of drowning.

[Monki]

Haha definitely it was more an uneducated thought then a worry. I was thinking something more like pneumonia, although I realise that's really not as simple as a bit of water in the lungs
Ignore me.. my mind wanders.

[Moon]

Feb 6, 2013 21:55:48 GMT Monki said:

Haha definitely it was more an uneducated thought then a worry. I was thinking something more like pneumonia, although I realise that's really not as simple as a bit of water in the lungs
Ignore me.. my mind wanders.

You made me laugh, anyway.

[addict]

Feb 6, 2013 21:11:58 GMT Ewol said:

That sounds scary, you can get it using an ecig? Maybe I should just try quitting full stop if that's the case. ???

I don't know Ewol and I'm sorry if my comment scared you. I had seen mention of it on other forums. In essence, the comments were that tiny fragments from the wick could find their way into the lungs which, in turn, could lead to silicosis. Those comments were from people who had decided to use cotton and possibly other materials for wicking. Dizzi's comments above make sense to me but if I'm going to be vaping long term I think I might check further into the safest material, whatever that may be.

Trouble is that there's a lot of scaremongering about ecigs and it can be hard to distinguish sensible concerns from negative hype. It certainly can't be nearly as harmful as smoking. Cold turkey, of course, is the safest and best way to quit smoking. Unfortunately, most of us who use ecigs have found that we can't handle the cold turkey route.

[hifistud]

I really do think we need to be clear here. There is no way on this planet that using an e-cig of any character can possibly be as potentially harmful as the inhalation of lit tobacco fumes on a daily basis - there's nothing in the science to show otherwise. Talk of silicosis and other lung conditions being a potential risk from various different types of wick are, although a possibility, highly improbable - the risk factor is orders of magnitude lower than smoking (at least 1000 time lower, in other words, and probably even lower than that).

The comparison is like this - compare jumping from a 65th storey window to jumping from a ground floor window. Without a parachute. That's what we're talking about here.

[Ewol]

Thanks Dave that puts it into perspective for me.

Besides aren't most if not all ingredients that are in ejuice, also in other Nicotine products like those Nicorette sprays?

[farzooks]

Feb 6, 2013 11:03:57 GMT jakethevape said:

We will NEVER win over the EU without real facts and that is something the "not bothered" camp need to understand.

Ignoring for a moment the possibility the EU's knickers being in a twist because of greasy backhanders from Big Tobacco and Big Pharma, there's another, very realistic reason for this.
They have a different mindset to us - they don't like people having the audacity to actually do something without their approval. Recall, that in many countries in a part of the world not so far from us, what isn't actually permitted by law and the authorities is illegal.
Contrast this with Good Old British [1] Freedoms - we can do what we like until it's made unlawful, as long as we're not harming anyone. Your average European bureaucrat gets a bit peeved at this - imagine, the cheek of the ordinary people to think they can cock a snook at Brussels and actually do something like that en-masse without permission or paying taxes on it.

My opinion? Stuff 'em. Stuff 'em right in the eyes.

[1] I include myself in this, because I'm British, but also the Irish legal system is the same.