Originally posted by G4LM
The fumes aren't combusting
And nobody combusts 'liquid chemical agents' unless you're smoking gasoline or something?
Thank you for catching me on the "combusting" term for e-juice, but still holds valid for the plant matter. Technically, you're
vaporizing, not
combusting the e-juice. I apologize for the lack of clarification.
Granted, e-juice is absolutely liquid chemicals. What do you really think it is that you're vaporizing?
The e-liquids used in electronic cigarettes (E-cigs) typically consist of a mixture of propylene glycol (PG), vegetable glycerin (VG), and nicotine, as well as numerous chemical additives that are used for flavoring. There are currently over 7,700 different flavored e-liquids that are commercially available, but there is very limited information regarding either their chemical composition or toxicity. In this work, we developed a high-throughput screening (HTS) assay to rapidly triage and validate the toxicity of multiple e-liquids in parallel. Our data indicated that e-liquids are extremely heterogeneous, so we also performed gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) of all e-liquids to evaluate their composition/toxicity relationship. We found that the presence of either vanillin or cinnamaldehyde in e-liquids was associated with higher toxicity values. In addition, our data demonstrated that the PG/VG vehicle by itself was toxic at higher doses. We have also developed a publicly available and searchable website (www.eliquidinfo.org) that contains these chemical composition and toxicity data. Given the large numbers of available e-liquids, this website will serve as a resource to disseminate this information. Our HTS approach may serve as a roadmap to enable bodies such as the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to better regulate e-liquid safety.
Source:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003904While the vanillin or cinnamaldehyde doesn't have sufficient human studies to show its toxicity when vaporized, there are studies of PG/VG having potentially negative effects (warning: text wall):
Source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5641932/Various reports of hospitalization or death following severe vaping usage:
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/vaping-may-be-causing-acute-lung-damage-in-teenshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/health/third-death-vaping-related-disease.htmlhttps://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/vaping-related-lung-disease-cases-surge-nearly-300-nationwide-n1047621https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/30/cdc-investigating-215-possible-cases-of-vaping-related-severe-lung-disease.htmlhttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/16/751823475/whats-behind-a-cluster-of-vaping-related-hospitalizationsThe point being, that from an anatomical level, our human bodies weren't evolved or designed (to whichever you subscribe) to inhale vaporized chemicals or combusting plant matter. That in itself should make it excruciatingly obvious to anyone that partaking in either is going to have likely negative results. Our bodies aren't made for it. They weren't intended for it. The biological processes that run them aren't fine tuned for it.
Whether you're vaping ejuice, DMT, meth, or smoking a bowl of weed/joint or a cigarette, it's all not what your body is optimized for and in most cases, causes direct physical harm. Vaping or smoking anything is
not good.
Hate to break it to you burners and MOON PERSONs.
