| Comment | Public Health England conducted a study, and the findings are that vaping is generally 95% 'less harmful than smoking. This is a published study, can be found in the Lancet, and on the NHS website.
Popcorn lung seems to have been caused by Diacetyl which was found in earlier vape 'juices' Diacetyl is now banned in the UK for vape products.
The Pneumothorax/collapsed lung problem is related to THC vape products where Vitamin E (for some odd reason) was added - as I understand it the Vitamin E reacted terribly to be ingested that way, causing a spate of collapsed lungs, and even some deaths.
All of the adverse conditions you've listed above are far far far far more common from tobacco than vaping. There hasn't been a single recorded death world wide where nicotine based vaping is considered as a contributing factor. Annually, the WHO says that there are 8 Million deaths worldwide where tobacco is the cause or contributing factor.
Based on what we do know right now, vaping is certainly far safer than tobacco, and with that, should be given serious consideration as a smoking cessation tool.
But what point am I making here? The point is that while we seem to be getting fixated on banning/prohibiting vaping, but currently we are far less fixated on smoking tobacco - and that is just weird to me. |
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