Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation - eviltoast
  • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t say it wasn’t. I said we have a lot more context than people want to pretend about vaping in general.

    And I’m not trying to say “it’s a mini hookah”, nor am I trying to say you should vape.

    Vaping doesn’t burn anything, unlike a hookah, but the vaporized oils still contain toxins and novel toxins not in the smoke from cigarettes or hookah

    If they contain toxins, we probably know quite a bit about those toxins right now. But what about pure vaporized solids? In the CBD and Cannabis community, dry herb vaporizing is the hot new thing specifically because 99% of complaints about vaping being unhealthy are irrelevant. All they do is get the herbs hot without burning it, run it through cooling, and inhale it. I laugh, but I used to do that with lavender with an aromatic herb heating unit.

    The health consequences of that are not well understood, but are probably not as bad as cigarette smoking. That’s the best we’ve got.

    Despite your incredulity, you really haven’t shown that. The consequences are not perfectly understood, but we understand enough to start making educated opinions about vaping. Even your points about hookahs work towards that, with the worst cons being that you still get Carbon Monoxide and the intensity of Nicotine is high. The problem is that we don’t want to tell people that the educated opinion is “probably better for you than that glazed donut”