how e-cigarettes work, why do you need electricity to make it healthier than normal cigarettes?
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E cigarettes usually use liquids with artificial flavoring, nicotine and whatnot in it…and they basically heat up said liquid with a coil to make the smoke.This takes energy…hence why e cigarettes are also often called vapes.
As to healthier than normal cigarettes: that is a big question mark.. we are getting more and more studies that it may be unhealthier than normal smoking even, as it may be worse on the lungs.
It is ultimately too early to tell how healthy those are. Although more recent studies kinda made e cigarettes largely die in places like Germany… you just don’t get them at every place anymore.
It may be an issue on a select few ingredients.. a select few flavours.. or just generally unhealthy.
The difference is cigarettes are smoked when it is on fire. E cigarettes are “vaped” the smoke is actually a type of vapor as there is no fire involved. The smoke from a cigarette, and most fires in general are extremely toxic to the lungs, and cigarettes contain *thousands* of different chemicals when smoked. E cigarettes can be just as dangerous or more dangerous depending on the quality of it — certain cottons that are used as a wick which is wrapped around a coil sometimes contains bleach, certain e liquids contain chemicals for the flavoring which cause a condition known as “*popcorn lung*” — the chemical is called diacetyl. Sometimes a coil which heats up to vaporize the e liquid on the wick can also contain toxic chemicals. So in theory e cigarettes are safer — though there are a lot of factors involved which actually can be equally as dangerous or even more dangerous. Not to mention bad batteries that can leak fumes.
Well for one tobacco is made from plants which themselves are made of all sorts of organic compounds. Then you burn it which turns those compounds into even more compounds, so there’s just a lot of stuff you are breathing in.
Vapes heat a manmade mix of glycol, nicotine, and flavoring. Less variety, and more control of the makeup potentially makes them less unhealthy unless you put a carcinogen in it. And since there’s no burning you don’t get as many unpredictable byproducts.
Granted we haven’t been inhaling vaporized glycol en mass for decades, so it’s not like there’s hard data on if they are less bad. Though it does seem likely, there’s a chance it could actually be rather bad in the long term. Also some vape fluid guys like to put all sorts of stuff in their mixes.
Anyway you don’t actually need electricity. Vaping was done well before pocket vapes by heating stuff up with a flame in a glass container. But electrical heating is much more easily controllable than an flame.
Tobacco contains carcinogens, cancer causing chemicals, in addition to nicotine.
A quality vape juice will contain nicotine, propelyne (spelling) glycol and vegetable glycerin which are natural and as far as I know not as bad as chemicals in a real cigarette.
Nicotine is still bad for you, but a hidden bad thing about vaping is that you can do it anywhere and anytime so people (like myself) have huge amounts of nicotine in their system pretty much all the time. With cigarettes you are kind of socially moderated (do you want to miss out on the fun cause you have to go outside to smoke a cigarette) or maybe there’s not a convenient way for you to smoke. Vaping is about self moderation which a lot of these dumb ass kids (again, like myself) have none.
To make sure people are on point with their ingredients:
Propylene Glycol
Vegetable Glycerin
Nicotine (either pulled from tobacco or synthetic)
Flavoring
Burning, or rather combustion, is a specific chemical reaction which produces certain by products. Heating something up using electricity without it combusting into flames is a different reaction which produces different by products. Sure we say in both cases the material is “burned” but there’s actually distinct differences of the processes taking place.
It’s also important to note that when you burn a cigarette you’re using fire to burn a paper, with dried tobacco inside and a filter at the end, whereas in an e-cig you’re heating up a liquid with a copper coil, some cotton, encassed in glass, and with no fire involved. So it’s not just about how you’re burning something but what you’re burning.
I think though that the most important thing here is the “healthier” bit. A lot of the health claims of e cigarettes stem mainly from lack of research compared to research done on traditional cigarettes rather than concrete proof that it is healthier. It might be healthier than a cigarette but it’s definitely not harmless, but e cig companies are relying a lot on pushing this narrative currently while there’s still not enough research on the subject. If you ask me maybe the anti freeze is not so bad to smoke but heating up metals and inhaling them is probably not good.
In my experience my lungs suffered more when I smoked a vape than when I smoked 2 packs a day of camels. The claim that vapes are safer is completely unfounded and there isn’t enough research done to draw real conclusions. Others above have already addressed some of the hazardous ingredients in vape liquids but there are other factors just as important such as particle size and frequency of use. The size of vape particles is 1/4 that or normal cigarette smoke so the vapor is able to get deeper into your lung tissue. Also, people usually smoke vapes more frequently since they’re more acceptable these days to smoke inside and they taste like razzleberry surprise. I knew a guy years ago who started an E-juice company and believed himself to be helping so many people but you could just look at his skin and tell that shit was destroying his body from the inside out. I quit smoking completely 10 years ago and I still love the smell of cigarettes, but the smell of a vape makes me want to puke.
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