First people vaped as a healthier alternative to smoking. Then people smoked nicotine-free vapes as a healthier alternative to vaping. Turns out – according to a new study – even when you remove all the tobacco and nicotine, breathing in flavoured vapour is just not great for you.
There’s been growing consensus among researchers about the health risks of nicotine-containing vapes. Just this week, one 22-year-old man had to undergo a double lung transplant because of his vaping habit. Thirty-nine countries have already banned the sale of e-cigarettes containing nicotine, and many vapers are now opting for zero-nicotine alternatives.
Unfortunately for the roughly five million vapers in the UK, even 0mg vapes appear to damage the lungs: New research, published in the journal Microvascular Research, has identified a specific protein that nicotine-free vape fluid increases in the lung, causing oxidative stress, inflammation and breakdown of the blood vessels. This is the same kind of damage as might be found in patients with lung injury.
So is this damage just from the specific watermelon flavor vape juice? They tested the same juice with different amounts of nicotine, finding that even the zero nicotine juice caused the increased prevalence of this protein associated with lung damage.
Now do cannabis extracts, that’s all I care about. people vaping for the taste and smoke seem pretty childish to me.
Same. Almost exclusively dab or dry vape now. I’m not going to quit, but would like to know which method is the least damaging to my body.
If you really want to avoid doing unnecessary harm to your body when getting high, edibles are your best bet.
Something something indigenous traditions rarely included inhaling burnt compounds and instead held them in the mouth to share it with one’s soul. Stupid white man missed the point and inhaled into his lungs like a backbirth.