• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Were those health studies?
    You know the lung problem with asbestos is quite unique, and it may have been unknown back then. If buildings weren’t for people, asbestos is very safe regarding fires, and an excellent material in many ways. But it was already in the 60’s that we began to ban and remove that shit, exactly because it is harmful to your lungs.

    The bases in vaping have been used for instance for asthma inhalers for many many decades and is STILL used for that, and the pharmaceutical industry is pretty heavily regulated. It is also used as stage fog, in fog machines that spew enormous amounts into rooms full of people, with AFAIK no research showing any health problems, for the operators or the musicians or actors that are exposed to it every day.

    But for some reason, when it’s an e-cig some people suddenly have a knee jerk reaction, and think whatever is inhaled in any way is unhealthy.
    Your argument is basically whataboutism, and in that line you could ask yourself, what about the smell of making tea, surely that must be harmful too by your logic. All that tea vapor in the air that you inhale in closed rooms.

    Actually it has been shown that people that vape to quit smoking, recover lung functionality faster than any other way of quitting smoking.
    So anyone that quit smoking could benefit from using vapes even if they are nicotine free, for a few months.
    Also when examined by a doctor, if you are vaping it registers as non smoker when measuring lung capacity.