Re:Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system
by nkozyra on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:30PM
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I'd inject nicotine pouches like Zyn in there, since they've also come up as a new moral panic:
nothing > oral/mucousa nicotine > inhaled nicotine > oral/mucousa tobacco > inhaled tobacco
Re:Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system
by mil22 on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:00PM
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Some, but not all [1]: "... the remaining 17% reported using only nicotine-containing vaping products... It is believed that the non-THC/CBD vapers who were diagnosed with EVALI were actually suffering from disparate vaping-associated lung diseases caused by different toxins within the aerosols or different host responses to the inhalants."
Re:Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system
by Domenic_S on Friday February 16, 2024 @06:23PM
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An uncited claim in a summary paper.
The CDC recommends not using THC vapes at all because of EVALI, but make no such recommendation about standard nicotine vapes (unless you've never smoked) [0].
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...
Vaping is not as safe as inhaling nothing but air. But we do know scientifically that it is substantially safer than smoking [1], despite the (big tobacco-funded) scare campaigns that claim otherwise.
In other words, nothing > vaping > smoking. If you don't use nicotine today, don't start. But if you want to get off cigarettes, vaping is a great choice and provably safer.
[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaping/tests-show-bootleg-mar...
[1] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/vaping-substantially-less-harmful...