Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation on Vascular Function

Re:Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation ... by Duhck on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:45PM (#20760902)

That seems like a foolish argument. The time horizon in which we discovered smoking was bad for you was decades, and over a massive population of users.

E-Cigarettes are only now becoming mainstream, and have only been in use for the better half of a decade.

We wont truly know the effects until we have a large sample size over a long period of time.

Ultimately, saying it's conclusively better for you than smoking is short sighted. We thought smoking was good for you in the 1920s...

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Re:Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation ... by JamesBarney on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:21PM (#20761268)

You're right that science sometimes makes mistakes, though probably less than they used to. And we won't know conclusively for decades.

But best available evidence says 5% right now.

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Re:Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation ... by billfruit on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:44PM (#20764459)

You seem to think that science do not have the ability to predict the effects from causes, it is possible to say if vaping is safer than normal cigarettes now itself, rather than have to wait for 50 years to make that declaration. Theoreticaly ecigs are much much safer, due to the lack of combustion and presence of carcinogenic smoke components.

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