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Vaping - Popcorn Lung
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Pienaar's gloves
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So are e-cigs better or worse than smoking tobacco?
Great post mate but what's a ket wig
l4toffee
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The current craze amongst young scousers ( I assume it's a Scouse thing) to grow there hair into overgrown tatty barnets .
First photo on Google 'ket wig' search and it is indeed a Scouse thing
You was absolutely right to put them on the list
Smoking is good, e-cigs are for posers.
Speaking as a smoker for 40 years, you can't beat a good old hacking cough in the morning -means you're alive.
dead_soft
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Summary, 'I hate people who don't act like me and seem to be happy'
l4toffee
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Who said I hate the people ? If that was the case I would hate loads of my family and mates .
What fezzies you going to next year mate ?
Only the start, more research will truly show the dangers of this vile killing habit. These TV adverts need banning from our screens.
Reliable Harvard Scientists Say E-Cig Flavors Can Cause "Popcorn Lung"
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Adam Clark Estes
Filed to: E-CIGS12/08/15 2:20pm
In the weird world of vaping research, it’s hard to find a scientist who isn’t funded by a tobacco company or an anti-smoking organization. However, in a government-funded study, a team of Harvard scientists made a grisly discovery. Candy-flavored e-cig liquid contains chemicals that cause a horrible condition called “popcorn lung.”
The study revealed that 75-percent of the 51 flavored liquids tested contain the very dangerous chemical diacetyl and two other harmful compounds. The flavors tested “included varieties with potential appeal to young people such as cotton candy, ‘Fruit Squirts,’ and cupcake.” (It’s unclear if the teen-favorite “unicorn puke” was included.) Diacetyl is known to cause bronchitis obliterans, a degenerative and irreversible respiratory condition also known as that often requires a lung transplant. Bronchitis obliterans is also known as popcorn lung.
The name isn’t as visual as it sounds. Its history can be traced back to a case of eight former employees of a factory in Missouri that made artificial butter flavor for microwave popcorn. The workers inhaled diacetyl from the flavoring on a daily basis and developed wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, as well as night sweats and weight loss. It sounds like a very terrible condition!
Here’s the scary thing: Many people who vape with flavored e-cig liquids also inhale this chemical on a daily basis. Some of these people are kids, especially since many states still allow e-cigs to be sold to minors. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering regulation e-cigs like tobacco products, but for now, it’s still a bit of a free for all.
What makes this revelation especially concerning is two-fold. One, the study was funded by the National Institute of Health, not some tobacco lobby, so it’s potentially more reliable that the many, often contradictory studies already out there. Two, the study focuses not on the perils of nicotine consumption but rather the chemicals used to flavor e-cig liquid. So even if you think you’re safe vaping with nicotine-free liquid, you could still end up with popcorn lung.
“Since most of the health concerns about e-cigarettes have focused on nicotine, there is still much we do not know about e-cigarettes,” says Harvard professor David Christiani, who co-authored a paper on the new study. “In addition to containing varying levels of the addictive substance nicotine, they also contain other cancer-causing chemicals, such as formaldehyde, and as our study shows, flavoring chemicals that can cause lung damage. Another factor to consider is how much of a scruff you look, it's not cool at all.
I am not at all fan of vaping, but in fairness, the headline is a little misleading. As the text says, the study found chemicals associated with popcorn lung in some flavors. We don't know that it would lead to the development of disease...will need further study.
Still extremely important finding as it validates that we can't consider vaping "safe" or even safer than tobacco as there are simply too many unknowns.
You seem pretty arsed about it all to have made a rant like that.
l4toffee
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U wat M8?
Hahaha. I've never seen a ket wig but the rest of the list is spot on
The Cowboy
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Yep, just in different ways. Don't think it's possibly to say vaping is better or worse for you.
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