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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

A lot of comments here are saying that vaping is apprently healthier than smoking. But we don't actually know that. All independent studies I know of say that we can't tell the long term consequences to vaping lungs yet.

Everyone that says that vaping is healthier than smoking is just parotting the companies that sell vapes.

Edit: Some videos about that topic:

https://youtu.be/XuTQbOo3Y30

https://youtu.be/bbV6I8VRMG8

[–] Anticorp 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

we don't know the long term consequences

Does not equate to "just as harmful as cigarettes". All of the data that we have available shows it to be considerably less harmful than cigarettes. If there are long term consequences, and there almost certainly are, they will still be less harmful than cigarettes.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I never said that vapes are "just as harmful as cigaretres". Altough most studies that suggest "less harmful" vapes are corporately sponsored by vape companies and tobacco companies that are slowly adopting vapes into their model.

Vapes as a tool to quit smoking are a nice tale, and probably work sometimes. But mostly vapes attracted teenagers and young adults and have started addicting a new generation of smokers/vapers after numbers have been falling these past few years.

[–] Anticorp 7 points 5 months ago

Vapes as a tool to quit smoking are a nice tale, and probably work sometimes.

Vapes as a smoking cessation method has a 70% success rate. The next closest method is less than 3%.

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