I don’t understand ‘vaping’ in this age where smoke-free is meant to be a virtue. Allegedly it lets nicotine junkies indulge in their addiction without burning tobacco and inhaling its carcinogenic by-products, still less inflicting the same on everybody around them. Does that make vaping safe? I doubt it. What vapers are actually doing is inhaling nicotine on a carrier of water and propylene glycol, to which is added flavours – typically ‘caramel’, which, as I understand it, uses the same artificial sweetener as commercial popcorn. The issue is the temperature to which the various contents are heated, for which the medical consequences of some are technically unproven but potentially very nasty and have, according to my reading, been implicated in alzheimers.
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