A breakthrough in research into vaping related illnesses.
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vitamin E acetate…this seems to knock the theory that it was due to cannabis extracts in the US products and thus Australian vaping concoctions are safe.
As it appears to be a mystery if vitamin E acetate is an ingredient of those sold in Australia…since vaping concoctions aren’t regulated in Australia.
I wonder what other ingredients will prove to be a potential issue in the long term?
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Another article warning of the dangers of vaping.
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It has a name:
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More bad news regarding vaping.
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The American Heart Association has launched an education program into the dangers of vaping.
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The toll keeps rising:
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/11/21/us/21reuters-usa-vaping-cdc.html
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More articles regarding vaping.
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A link to an article I just posted under another topic.
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The content is fine, the format is tedious to say the least. I am not sure why I need to watch a series of mainly uninformative graphics while reading the text one sentence at a time.
Can anybody say why the ingredient glycerol is called ‘vegetable glycerine’? Once it is separated from the long chain fatty acid component glycerol is glycerol regardless of whether the triglyceride fat it was derived from was made by a plant or an animal. Are the impurities different and does this allow one to trace the origin to plant or animal? Does this matter? Anybody?
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Possibly not if the chemical compound is the same. Whether plant or animal derived would not necessarily make any different other than consumer perception. Maybe the term ‘vegetable’ is for marketing purposes rather than differences in the glycerine. It could open markets for vegans/vegetarians.
It is possibly easier to manage the quality of a synthetic produced one rather than that ‘vegetable’ (plant or animal based) based…as the inputs can be better controlled.
It is a bit tedious and one could read the same information in a fraction of the time of watching the fancy slide shuffle. ABC has possibly bought licences for the underlying animation software and needs to use it to justify the expenditure.
An article regarding the results of the first study into the long term effects of vaping.
And an article from John Hopkins Medicine regarding problems with vaping.
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An article regarding vaping making lung bacteria more harmful.
And the US Congress may raise the smoking age to 21.
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Instagram bans “influencers” from promoting vaping.
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The US FDA expected to ban most vaping flavours.
No wonder the Marlboro man is upset.
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Despite the hysteria, it seems that common sense may just be starting to prevail . . .
“Common sense is not that common”, is often what many say.
Chairman of the expert advisory group behind the guide Nicholas Zwar said the recommendation that e-cigarettes could help people quit smoking came with many caveats.
“The [therapies] that have been tested and been through therapeutic approval would be the first choice, but if you have someone who has not succeeded in quitting using those methods and they are interested in nicotine vaping, there is some evidence of benefit and they could be considered,” he said.
Hardly a call for acceptance of E-cigarettes as an off the shelf consumer product, and only in a very special circumstance.
More a suggestion that harmful vaping products are possibly safer than traditional tobacco products and might be useful as a treatment of last resort for tobacco addiction. Sounds like a call for a prescription medicine type solution, similar to say methadone which has been used in the past to help with treating drug addiction.
One question remains.
Once free of tobacco addiction giving up vaping should be as easy as just throwing the device and product in a suitable rubbish bin. Any possibility that is not true?
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I have no problem with vaping being used as one of several quitting techniques under medical supervision. The problem is as an addiction, it needs a medical solution not a market solution. The tobacco companies could make it available (under prescription) for a nominal cost; they owe society that much.
The idea of allowing young people to get hooked on what is a rather addictive substance fills me with dread regardless of any supposed harm reduction compared to ciggies. This (mis)use of the harm reduction argument is like saying medical heroin is less harmful than street heroin - that may have all sorts of rubbish in it and be of unknown strength. Well that is true but you are still at risk of it taking over your life and you are still much better off with none.
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