What is vaping? It is so much like smoking, but you’re not using any tobacco or getting any tar or the other dangerous additives that are in cigarettes. Also, you don’t have to worry about producing any secondhand smoke for others to breathe. The vapor doesn’t have the smell of ci...
A group of Portland State University researchers found that if you turn up the power on a vape to a level no human could tolerate, an inexpensive clearomizer would produce high levels of formaldehyde. Thinking they had struck anti-vaping gold, they rushed the information into a letter to the...
Vaping -- a Form of Tobacco-Free Smoking -- Is a Breath of Sweet AirHill, Angela
What is so special about this zoo in Lacey Township is that it is a sanctuary for unwanted or abused animals, who face desperate circumstances.Popcorn Parkbegan in 1977 when they rescued and treated a raccoon caught in a leg-hold trap. He was given a home for life at the zoo because h...
Students who have used electronic cigarettes by the time they start ninth grade are more likely than others to start smoking traditional cigarettes and other tobacco products within the next year, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Electronic cigarettes, or e﹣ci...
and a variety of other chemicals.E- cigarettes contain heating elements that turn the e-liquids into a vapour (蒸气) that the user takes in.That is why using e-cigarettes is often called "vaping". Because e-cigarettes don't burn tobacco,people don't take in the same a...
But what about vaping? Vaping doesn't produce known carcinogens in quantities large enough to be considered real risks, and it doesn’t contain solid particles like smoke. In fact, the things that are most dangerous in burning tobacco are largely absent from vaping. Since there is no combustio...
How big of a problem is youth vaping? In the UK, where tobacco products can be purchased from the age of 18, balancing the potential harms to teenagers against the benefits for older smokers is more straightforward: vaping rates among UK adolescents have remained steady in recent ye...
3,4 It is encouraging to note that the FDA has recently authorized a modified-risk marketing order for a product that heats but does not burn tobacco and will be reviewing the safety of other nicotine vaping products in the near future, allowing for clearer communication to the public that ...
In most cases, PG and VG are used as carrier oils for nicotine, the active ingredient in tobacco. You can't vape nicotine on its own since this substance takes on a crystalline rather than an oil form. Nicotine dissolves into PG and VG, however, making it possible to vaporize this tobac...