Compounds produced by heating some fruit-flavoured vape liquids have implications for lung and cardiovascular disease and cancer

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  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
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    8 months ago

    I suppose from a harm reduction standpoint the big question is: has vaping dropped chronic disease that has been traditionally linked to tobacco products or is it equally or more dangerous than traditional tobacco products? If it’s reducing mortality and disease, then that’s a good thing overall even it still poses some risk to long term health. Obviously you don’t want to use traditional tobacco products or vape products if you want a healthy cardiovascular system.

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      Far safer, probably even with garbage quality import vapes. You can see when someone at your gym swaps from smoking to vaping, their performance skyrockets. Clear as day their lungs are working better. Shouldn’t be a huge surprise given there is no tar when vaping

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Far safer, agreed. After 20-years of smoking, I quit coughing within 3-weeks.

        OTOH, I just quit vaping (10-years) and started the nicotine pouches. Game. Changed. I had no idea how bad vaping was for me. (That was bad for me personally. YMMV depending on several factors. I basically vaped like it was air.)

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          8 months ago

          I assume you mean patches, not pouches haha

          How long did it take to see improvement after you swapped to patches?

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            8 months ago

            pouches. they’re like snus, but no tobacco, only nicotine

            • soulBit@sopuli.xyz
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              8 months ago

              Careful, those things cause awful gum recession and potential tooth loss if you use them regularly

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                can you link studies on this? i’ve been looking but can’t find-- and i’ve been using pouches for years and haven’t noticed those side effects