And my argument is that of course more research is needed, but it’s to prove what we already know. Inhaling properly manufactured vape juices is less harmful than smoking cigarettes by a large degree.
If you see a house billowing with smoke you don’t have to wait for firefighters to tell you the house is on fire.
Last week we got 18" of snow. 6 days later and it’s 72F. My favorite season is being erased.
You’re clearly not cherry picking. If you were, you might have some articles that at least hint that ECs might be more harmful than cigarettes, but none of them come close. The first link you posted gets the closest, but it’s also just an article about one experiment, using 4 liquids that are not recommended in EC communities.
The rest of the actual studies you posted are not about safety. They do not compare disease or illness or death between the two. One of them does compare the amount of toxic chemicals in ECs to cigarettes and finds ECs to have zero. Until there are long term studies comparing the rate of death and disease, no journal is going to publish any definitive answer that ECs are safer than cigarettes. Until then, we will just have a bunch of studies comparing chemical composition, rates and particle sizes. And if it isn’t obvious, chemical composition and their rates are a bit more worrisome than the latter.
If you read through these studies and still think vaping is more harmful than cigarettes, then by all means wait the 50 years it will take the scientific community to out right say the obvious “vaping isn’t healthy, but it is significantly less harmful than traditional tobacco smoking.”
I was told not to eat candy that was damaged. Not the package, but the actual candy. So if an M&M had a chipped shell, I wouldnt eat it because “it could be poisoned”.
I remember having a text to speech program on my windows 98(?) PC that required me to type a long string of stuff into the command prompt. We had it written on an index card and I remember it taking forever to type in. Between starting up the computer, typing in the code, and having it actually load if typed correctly the first time, it was nearly a 30 minute endeavor just to laugh at a computer voice say “poopy butthole herpes”.
Ignorant take. When vape products contain, at most, 6 ingredients, all of which have been individually extensively studied, none of which are carcinogenic, and 5 of them are FDA approved for food and pharmaceuticals, theres a pretty obvious harm reduction to inhaling thousands of compounds with at least 70 being carcinogens. So much so that every study you can find will conclude the same.
Here’s a quote from a source I would call a qualified institution on the matter: "In its 2016 assessment, the Royal College of Physicians of London stated: “Although it is not possible to precisely quantify the long-term health risks associated with e-cigarettes, the available data suggest that they are unlikely to exceed 5% of those associated with smoked tobacco products and may well be substantially lower than this figure.”
That isn’t pseudoscience. It’s easily found by a quick Google search.
Conclusively, we’re going to find that the tobacco industry makes far less money off of refined nicotine than it does from tobacco. There’s a reason Phillip Morris bought a 30% stake in Juul, ran their advertising into the ground, and now also exclusively funds anti vaping ads rather than anti tobacco product ads.
They hooked a new generation on nicotine with Juul and are trying to ban vaping to sell their higher profit margin cigarettes.
Whether my conspiracy conjecture is found to be true or not, studies comparing vaping to smoking keep coming to the same conclusion, vaping is less harmful than smoking. If you have a study or information to the opposite I would love to read it.
Would you rather, receive open heart surgery performed by Oz, Phil with Nurse McCarthy, or receive lethal injection administered by Dr Phil?
This shouldnt be a hard question, but…
Next is that pesky porn problem that makes up most of the traffic.
Our dads probably know each other.
The fans revving for 20 seconds and the program opening it’s loading screen: “Nice”.
The fans revving for 5 seconds and the program is sitting at 0% CPU after 1 full minute: “fuck this bullshit.” But you hold onto hope and wait another 5 minutes, and as your confirming to restart the PC the program starts loading, and you have to watch it load entirely before it’s killed by the restart, and the restart takes even longer because the program actually opened.
Or,
You browser is loading homestarrunner.com and the loading bar stops at 10% like it should for 5 minutes, but the 5 minutes passes by, and you click the clock on the task bar only to see your mouse turn into an hourglass.
Either that, or send a ton of bots that like the stock for a bunch of reasons as written by chatgpt.
Many don’t have to imagine because that’s just reality.
It’s really good. Haven’t have a flavor from them that isn’t really good.
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We want you to grow up to be big and strong!..someday.
Haha! Of course sport! Anything for my big guy. Say, while we’re at it, how about we make a day of it? We can get some burgers and floats, skip some rocks at the lake, and maybe even get you that new Lightning Mcqueen booster seat you’ve been wanting!? This is going to be so much fun bud! We just have to make a quick stop at the town office to renew your SSI information for your…condition…
Tussle their hair, smile and say “sure thing big guy. Want some chocolate milk?” And put your hands on your hips. It will make their day.
My family gives me street and road names, landmarks, etc… which doesn’t work for me.
What I really need is an address so that I can drive to the location once. After that, in my head I’m telling myself, “fork to the right, weird house, sharp turn, field, slow down because it’s right after the old barn.”
Either that, or I need them to say something like “remember where the old movie theater used to be? The one where your brother broke his tooth? It’s the road to the left next to the gas station and it’s the third driveway on the right.”
After I drive somewhere once I can just get a feeling when I’m close to where I need to turn, or need to be, but for that first drive, you better give me exact coordinates.
Does anyone know the best lemmy community to ask about SEO and web/finance tech in relation to a small business? I have a small business that is doing very well, but SEO and word of mouth is a direct contributor to its success, and I think I’m getting screwed over in cost by the company I’ve been paying to run my site building, hosting and, SEO.