Re:Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review
by LoSboccacc on Saturday July 13, 2019 @10:00AM
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> Moreover, cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death for smokers
that alone tells nothing, cardiovascular disease is the primary death cause for general populace, that why you need to work out incidences, and guess which one has greater variation?
cardiovascular disease: 4x more likely
Cancer: 23x the risk compared to general populace
respiratory disease: 17x the risk
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
funny how you had to cherry pick stats to present your point while accusing people of being shills.
smoking is bad, we get it. not everyone that can see a larger picture are part of God knows what conspiracy.
and I specifically did not say "tobacco without the other stuff is fine" so go grind your axe somewhere else
While you're probably right about primary carcinogens, the tobacco plant pulls radioactive isotopes like Po-210 and Pb-210 out of the soil and air, and those concentrations have been growing as Polonium levels rise in soil from years of fertilizer use[1]. So to say 'it's not the tobacco' is a very dangerous comment.
Moreover, cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death for smokers, not lung cancer, and while extracting nicotine from tobacco and vaporizing it in a PG/VG solution might mitigate risk of the latter there's no reason to believe it'll do anything for CVD. If anything, without the MAOI in tobacco that increases the nicotine's effect, on average folks vaping probably have higher levels in their bloodstream than folks that smoke.
[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270238/