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Anyone here VAPE!!!!!!!!! I need help gathering secondary research on it XD?

This is basically secondary research that I am conducting here for my coursework and I need to know if anyone vapes you will be very useful XD...
Anyway I am making a short like 3 minute documentary on whether or not vaping is healthy? Any experts on the topic help me ASAP PLEASE

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Hey DUDE! I am a vapist, I took a hit of the ol' VAPE last weekend and I was on cloud 9, I woke up feeling like I was on the moon.

Look at the hit on the vape.
Vaping isn't healthy, it is just not as bad as conventional smoking.

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Through all my years of heavy and excessively fun drug use, I never vaped.

I can tell you a lot about the ways of the bucket though.
Original post by DiddyDec
Vaping isn't healthy, it is just not as bad as conventional smoking.

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Long and short of it is as above - the public health figure is 95% safer than conventional smoking, but being safer than smoking doesn't necessarily mean healthy.

In terms of health risks, the biggest one is that (at present) the market is entirely unregulated - meaning that the liquids available are generally unknown in terms of content of toxic chemicals, the main one about at the moment is diacetyl/acetopropionyl - two chemically similar diketones linked with respiratory problems, specifically bronchitis obliterans (aka popcorn lung); when inhaled at industrial levels over a long period of times it has been shown to cause severe lung damage - the question is simply what the safe levels are.
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Original post by Dinasaurus
Hey DUDE! I am a vapist, I took a hit of the ol' VAPE last weekend and I was on cloud 9, I woke up feeling like I was on the moon.

Look at the hit on the vape.


Lol Are you talking about the one that was at the excel center?
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Original post by Stiff Little Fingers
Long and short of it is as above - the public health figure is 95% safer than conventional smoking, but being safer than smoking doesn't necessarily mean healthy.

In terms of health risks, the biggest one is that (at present) the market is entirely unregulated - meaning that the liquids available are generally unknown in terms of content of toxic chemicals, the main one about at the moment is diacetyl/acetopropionyl - two chemically similar diketones linked with respiratory problems, specifically bronchitis obliterans (aka popcorn lung); when inhaled at industrial levels over a long period of times it has been shown to cause severe lung damage - the question is simply what the safe levels are.


em this is a btec course and I'm at the first year of sixth form long story short I didn't understand any of this thanks for the information though :/
Original post by mahmoud786
em this is a btec course and I'm at the first year of sixth form long story short I didn't understand any of this thanks for the information though :/


It's not difficult to understand at all?
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Original post by Wilfred Little
It's not difficult to understand at all?


How old are you?
Original post by mahmoud786
em this is a btec course and I'm at the first year of sixth form long story short I didn't understand any of this thanks for the information though :/


You should probably drop out then.

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Original post by DiddyDec
You should probably drop out then.

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hahahaha loooool I've always wanted to but. just foget it man anywayyyyy can you help
Original post by mahmoud786
em this is a btec course and I'm at the first year of sixth form long story short I didn't understand any of this thanks for the information though :/


You're in a bit of a pickle then - what I've told you is the basic state of the industry from a health perspective (there's a bit more to it in terms of chemicals with toxicological profiles, but contractually I can only really speak about the stuff in public domain for now)


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Vape nation,bro.


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Original post by mahmoud786
hahahaha loooool I've always wanted to but. just foget it man anywayyyyy can you help


I already have.

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Original post by Stiff Little Fingers
You're in a bit of a pickle then - what I've told you is the basic state of the industry from a health perspective (there's a bit more to it in terms of chemicals with toxicological profiles, but contractually I can only really speak about the stuff in public domain for now)


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Didn't you say a while back that the risk of popcorn lung is much lower than smoking cigarettes anyway, or that the content of chemicals linked with it that are in eliquids is far lower? Can't remember what it was exactly.
Original post by Wilfred Little
Didn't you say a while back that the risk of popcorn lung is much lower than smoking cigarettes anyway, or that the content of chemicals linked with it that are in eliquids is far lower? Can't remember what it was exactly.


They're typically there in lower concentrations than in conventional cigarettes since they're from the flavouring concentrates being used (so are already reasonably dilute), so you could say the risk is lower than in conventional cigarettes, the problem is that cigarettes cause so many different respiratory problems that it's not really possible to say that lower levels than in cigarettes are safe.
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Original post by Wilfred Little
Didn't you say a while back that the risk of popcorn lung is much lower than smoking cigarettes anyway, or that the content of chemicals linked with it that are in eliquids is far lower? Can't remember what it was exactly.


I'm on my way to failing this coursework :frown:
Please explain it as if you are talking to someone that is 12
Original post by Stiff Little Fingers
They're typically there in lower concentrations than in conventional cigarettes since they're from the flavouring concentrates being used (so are already reasonably dilute), so you could say the risk is lower than in conventional cigarettes, the problem is that cigarettes cause so many different respiratory problems that it's not really possible to say that lower levels than in cigarettes are safe.


Cheers pal.

Original post by mahmoud786
I'm on my way to failing this coursework :frown:
Please explain it as if you are talking to someone that is 12


There are sum bad tings in eliquids but man don't know what the safe level is yet, you get me?
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Original post by Wilfred Little
Cheers pal.



There are sum bad tings in eliquids but man don't know what the safe level is yet, you get me?


Yeahhhh safeee

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