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  • NuraShiny [any]
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    2 years ago

    Subsidize electronic cigarettes and call it progress.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        wait...huh? nicotine is highly addictive but it's otherwise just a stimulant not a mutagen. and vape devices main risk is heavy metal poisoning from the hot coils i don't think there's been any studies linking them to cancer yet.

        • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah I’m certainly not gonna say vaping is good for you but to act like they’re anywhere near as harmful as cigarettes is really disingenuous.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I'm pretty sure inhaling hot air into your lungs still enflames them, and doing that repeatedly still increases cancer risk.

            • iie [they/them, he/him]
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              2 years ago

              https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs

              Diacetyl is frequently added to flavored e-liquid to enhance the taste. Inhaling diacetyl causes inflammation and may lead to permanent scarring in the smallest branches of the airways — popcorn lung — which makes breathing difficult.

              further down on the page:

              Vaping-related lipoid pneumonia is the result of inhaling oily substances found in e-liquid, which sparks an inflammatory response in the lungs.

        • iie [they/them, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          there's shit other than nicotine in an e-cig. lead and arsenic can be found in e-cig fluids and fumes. formaldehyde can form in the fumes after contact with the coils. flavorings and humectants can have weird shit in them. no one's saying e-cigs are as dangerous as cigarettes, but they're probably still dangerous, and we're not going to know how bad for a long time because e-cig popularity is a recent phenomenon.