The only concern i have is the flavors. Yes, they’re “Generally Regarded As Safe” for eating. There’s not been sufficient study on the long term effects of inhaling them in the fashion that a vape delivers.
Yeah, this and also, whatever happened to the age old advice “inhaling anything but clean air is bad for your health”? That doesn’t vanish because you’re replacing something which is worse for your health.
We know that inhaling tobacco smoke is bad for you, and we have a good idea of how bad and why, because science.
That same kind of science hasn’t been done on vaping. The handful of studies I’m aware of have all been horribly designed. From a data standpoint, that makes vaping an unknown.
However.
The only major incident that’s even vape-adjacent was when some knobs were putting Vit E acetate into bathtub THC cart refills. I’m not saying it’s impossible that there are conditions that haven’t yet been linked to vaping, but the more time passes, the more people who are vaping, and still no “epidemic” level of disease in relation? I know that absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence, but the people who holler about the dangers of vaping have never been able to demonstrate (to me) what those dangers are.
This is a mischaracterization of the conversations I’ve seen and been a part of. What people are trying to say is that no one should be assuming that because vaping seems safer that it is harmless.
The flavor is the biggest unknown. Especially if the particular flavor used is unknown.
I personally mixed my own juices, and all I can say with regard to flavors is that the amounts are very small for most flavors, and vaping it is not much different from smelling it if added to food or even tea as flavoring.
So if these flavorings are a significant health hazard, I think it would have been detected in the industrial processes where they are used, and in professional kitchens.
There was the infamous popcorn lung situations, where workers on a factory making artificial butter flavor were inhaling crazy high amounts of it. Like millions of times what you would inhale when vaping. It was called popcorn lungs, because the butter flavoring was used for microwave popcorn.
It caused enormous damage to the reputation of this type of flavoring, but in reality the flavor wasn’t really the issue, it was the insanely bad and irresponsible conditions under which it was produced, that offered absolutely zero protection for the workers, while there also was near zero ventilation, causing the flavor to permeate the production facility in extreme concentrations.
The only concern i have is the flavors. Yes, they’re “Generally Regarded As Safe” for eating. There’s not been sufficient study on the long term effects of inhaling them in the fashion that a vape delivers.
Yeah, this and also, whatever happened to the age old advice “inhaling anything but clean air is bad for your health”? That doesn’t vanish because you’re replacing something which is worse for your health.
We know that inhaling tobacco smoke is bad for you, and we have a good idea of how bad and why, because science.
That same kind of science hasn’t been done on vaping. The handful of studies I’m aware of have all been horribly designed. From a data standpoint, that makes vaping an unknown.
However.
The only major incident that’s even vape-adjacent was when some knobs were putting Vit E acetate into bathtub THC cart refills. I’m not saying it’s impossible that there are conditions that haven’t yet been linked to vaping, but the more time passes, the more people who are vaping, and still no “epidemic” level of disease in relation? I know that absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence, but the people who holler about the dangers of vaping have never been able to demonstrate (to me) what those dangers are.
This is a mischaracterization of the conversations I’ve seen and been a part of. What people are trying to say is that no one should be assuming that because vaping seems safer that it is harmless.
The flavor is the biggest unknown. Especially if the particular flavor used is unknown.
I personally mixed my own juices, and all I can say with regard to flavors is that the amounts are very small for most flavors, and vaping it is not much different from smelling it if added to food or even tea as flavoring.
So if these flavorings are a significant health hazard, I think it would have been detected in the industrial processes where they are used, and in professional kitchens.
There was the infamous popcorn lung situations, where workers on a factory making artificial butter flavor were inhaling crazy high amounts of it. Like millions of times what you would inhale when vaping. It was called popcorn lungs, because the butter flavoring was used for microwave popcorn.
It caused enormous damage to the reputation of this type of flavoring, but in reality the flavor wasn’t really the issue, it was the insanely bad and irresponsible conditions under which it was produced, that offered absolutely zero protection for the workers, while there also was near zero ventilation, causing the flavor to permeate the production facility in extreme concentrations.
That’s good to hear, about the amounts of flavoring. I’m also aware of the diacetyl thing, everyone stopped using that one so far as I’m aware.