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In reply to the discussion: pilot study on nicotine residues in houses of electronic cigarette users, tobacco smokers, and non s [View all]MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)My job is to help diagnose pulmonary disease, and my observation give me a better idea and therefore a much better guess at what is going on than you. This is because there has been little if any time for UNREGULATED vapor research. Certainly there could not be any longitudinal studies on the effects at this point.
I work with board certified pulmonologists and have worked with heart, lung and vascular specialists as a licensed practitioner in three different states. When I say that I speak to patients who are trying to quit and using vaping to do so, I report this as a number of observations that far outweigh anything you've said.
I don't have to be a scientist to tell you the relationship between smoking and lung disease. I don't have to be siting studies to prove harm on a bridge to smoking cessation. There well may be NO harm. But unless the industry is regulated as to what the hell they also include in these mixtures, you and I have no science on what is being vaporized. It's as simple as that.
The thing you continue to overlook is the statement that vaping should be regulated so that there IS no harm introduced to the practice of smoking cessation. I already know that smoking has statistically significant bad outcomes for those who sustain the habit. What I don't want to see is exposure to harm in the vapor than can cease the habit of cigarette smoking.
If you can't understand that, then go yell at someone else tonight.