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Re:Smok.io’s connected electronic cigarette tracks your habi... by SimpleXYZ on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @11:16AM (#6921893)
Yeah there is a lot of cool e-cig stuff out there. But I would think it's still cheaper in the long run.

There is a lot of studies that still need to be done. My personal theory is that since 1/3 of smoking related deaths are due to nicotine, e-cigs are about 66% "safer" than analog cigs.

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Re:Smok.io’s connected electronic cigarette tracks your habi... by mercer on Thursday December 19, 2013 @01:53PM (#6936826)
Interesting. I was under the assumption that nicotine is no more dangerous than caffeïne, and that the primary danger of smoking is inhalation of burning tobacco particles (and some other chemicals).

A cursory glance at the wikipedia article also doesn't mention that nicotine is that dangerous.

Could you elaborate? I'm honestly curious.

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Re:Smok.io’s connected electronic cigarette tracks your habi... by SimpleXYZ on Friday December 20, 2013 @11:00AM (#6941993)
Well, consuming straight nicotine is a brand new phenom, and science is racing to catch up. Give it 10 years for any definitive science to be peer reviewed, confirmed, and then generally accepted. Take a look at things like this: http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20060720/nicotine-speeds-lu...

I can't find my original sources, so please, take my personal theories with a grain of salt... Many years ago I was studying the types of cancer smokers are more likely to get other than lung cancer. After my uncontrollable urge to crunch numbers, I came up with 2/3 lung cancer, 1/3 other cancer and made an unscientific guess that nicotine plays a big part in the non-lung cancer related illness.

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