Posted on 09/04/2014 12:28:39 PM PDT by DannyTN
When Rachael Lloyd took up vaping, she thought she'd stumbled across a miracle alternative to smoking. Little did she know, her e-cigarette wasn't quite as guilt-free as she'd assumed - as the World Health Organisation is now starting to realise
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Two days later I scurried to my doctor for a second opinion. She asked exactly how much vapour I was consuming per hour. “Up to forty inhalations an hour on a particularly stressful day,” I admitted. According to her, I was inhaling the equivalent of 40 fags a day – at least in terms of nicotine. There was no doubt about it, I was a vape addict.
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The only e-cigs one should be smoking are the ones that fill your hand habit and nothing more.
Good point!
It’s just water vapor. The E-cigs are much stronger and I can smell them after just one puff.
Unless you are thinking of another form of vaping, e-cigs have no odor.
Ya she’s really hooked.
I just got into vaping this last Sunday. Haven’t wanted a cig. yet.
It takes some experimentation but I have settled in to about 3-4 puffs every 1 to 1-1/2 hours. I plan to go weaker on the juice every time I re-up. All the way down to zero.
But what about second hand vape?
I don’t remember advocating outlawing nicotine or vaping.
40 fags a day
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Big deal, Lindsay Graham goes through that many before noon.
I know. I shamelessly took advantage of that and beat the first poster by 51 seconds.
I wonder how much the Telegraph was paid by the tobacco companies to publish this nonsense??
The “yet” is implied...
Several years ago, when I feeling particularly stupid with some friends, we decided to reverse the methods of consumption for tea and pipe tobacco.
We made tobacco tea, and smoked the tea leaf.
Smoking the tea leaf was uneventful.
I personally declined to drink the tobacco tea, but my two friends who did were totally sick after two or three sips.
The reason for this, we found out, is because nicotine is highly poisonous in large doses. If my friends drank the entire cup of “tea,” they probably would have gone into shock. Ingesting tobacco will make you sick, as anyone who dips tobacco and swallows by accident well tell you.
Having said that, you’ll know if you have too much nicotine. You’ll feel nauseous. Vaping isn’t smoking - it’s much less harmful to your lungs. Nicotine by itself, in controlled doses, is about as the same as caffeine.
People are so squeamish. Let people consume tobacco.
Just because it’s HARAM doesn’t mean Americans can’t enjoy it...
Remember, Mr. “We’re all Muslims” Mike Bloomberg was the nanny who started this fanatical anti-smoking movement.
Yeah I was digging around in Grandpa’s shop after he passed away and I found this old little bottle of pure nicotine... It had the little skull and crossbones on the label, it was sold to be diluted and used as an insecticide...
It’s called freedom. Freedom to do stupid things if you want.
30-60 mg is a deadly dose for humans
even if absorbed through the skin
the purest form is a liquid and it would take 30-60mg to kill one person, even if absorbed through the skin
I’m going to start smoking - my doctor says I need more tar.
Addicts get so snippy!
We must immediately ban all tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant because they contain nicotine! What a pant load.
I'm shocked, yes. Truly.
Because I can never be convinced that there is such a large percentage of the population that are dangerously stupid.
For decades we have been bombarded by propaganda from the States and Federal governments about the thousands of poisonous chemicals smoking produces.
These apocalyptic chemicals were not enough to ban the sales of the product. Instead, they taxed tobacco so that now 90% of the price is government theft that is spent in ways that have nothing to do with promoting health, unless redistribution promotes healthy living.
All these morons, including the government nannies have no clue what a microgram is or the common presence of many of those same poisons in common foods.
(I know this story is from the UK, but it equally applies to the all pioneers of this exploitation, including the People's Dominion of Canada.)
Having said all that, what about vaping? What normal person starts to use that new product or any new product without investigating the effects?
Ecigarettes can be obtained with zero nicotine content. Also in varying reduced percentages as compared to conventional cigarettes. What this woman did is profoundly ignorant : getting ecigarettes with nicotine content greater than her old brand, PLUS smoking more for whatever reason.
A good number of smokers can quit cigarettes and nicotine if the habit is psychological, rather than physical, just by smoking zero nicotine Ecigarettes.
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