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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh wow it's as of e-cigs is just like cigarettes, but besides cancer and toxic chemicals, they also found a way to add more waste.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

I gave up arguing with people like you a long time ago, but I still want you to know actively telling people they're just as bad as cigarettes will keep people on cigarettes, which are 4000x worse than vaping. Your misguided views are extremely harmful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Nicotine alone is carcinogenic, despite what people like to believe.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

[Citation needed]. Both of you.

There's been a study which found carcinogenic compounds in vapour... thing is they overdrove the thing so hard that it was burning the wick, noone would actually take a puff of that. It's the equivalent of setting a toaster to maximum and then saying that bread causes cancer.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

There's little evidence of pure nicotine being carcinogenic afaik. Nicotine in tobacco is carcinogenic due to certain reactions with other chemicals in the tobacco plant

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I mean, it is, but smoke and, weirdly, polonium are also very large contributors to cancer from tobacco use.