anyone here try ecigs ?

I used to be a black & mild smoker for several years. Started vaping when it was just starting to "sort of" take off about 4 or 5 years ago. Been vaping ever since to some degree or another. In the end, it got me off cigars, but it really just turned into a new habit.

 

NOPE.

Lost a friend to smoking a couple of months ago. Small cell lung cancer. He beat it once two years ago late last year the docs told him to prepare for the end. They did all they could do. He asked for hospice two days after we said good bye to him and was dead about two days after enduring 2 hour needle wakeups due to massive pain as the cancer crushed him. He essentially drowned. Slowly until the heart quit to no oxygen.

Still want to smoke? Don't. I smoked about two decades on the road, 4 packs of Marlboro 100's daily. I quit in 2001 after my last big Rockies incurred a suspected mountain sickness from spending too much time too high with a set of lungs too damaged. I have since repaired what could be repaired. But the rest is too damaged.

Vaping is even worse than smoking. It's in your mind faster than ordinary smoking because the nicotine is vaporized by a hot arc off a battery within the unit. If the battery got compromised, you have yourself a proper red Lithium blaze that will need a ABC dry chemical extinguisher in a hurry and even that is iffy.

 

I didn't think it was possible, but you somehow managed to wrap just about every possible bogus anti-vaping myth into a single run on sentence.

Just think if someone had come along back years ago and warned you about the hazards of carrying around a zippo lighter in your front pocket, containing a wad of cotton soaked in a flammable liquid, mere inches from the cherry on the end of that cig drooping off your lip. Clearly that scared you away from smoking cigarettes.

I say that because a glycerin vapor is not more harmful than the hundreds of toxic chemicals produced by burning tobacco. Yes, all batteries will burn/explode when shorted. Vape batteries (same as what's used in high-end rechargeable flashlights) usually because they're carried in a pocket with loose metal objects like coins to cause a short. Or using the wrong battery for the device in hand. Or any number of stupid ways to handle a battery.

@Oldironfan the popcorn lung thing is old news. Ancient news. It had to do with certain specific flavoring additives. It was covered far and wide to the point that I don't even think the flavoring companies even make the products any more. You will certainly not get any of that with products available today. Go read up on e-cigarette-forum dot com and educate yourself and make a decision. You'll find all the facts, including matters about batteries exploding, anyone getting hurt or thinking they were hurt, and so on. Just search it will be there.

I've been using these products for coming up on 8 years, with nothing but positive health effects. They are way less harmful than smoking tobacco. But I'll admit I presume, not as harmless as not vaping or smoking, that's a given. I can say first hand the results are way more positive than 30 years of Camel filters.

About the only risk that I've read about anywhere, to give me any pause, has to do with temperature control. It is only relevant on the latest generation of high power devices on the market, powerful enough to create the 450ºC+ heat required to create toxic gasses that don't occur at lower temps. Capable of 50-200W, however they manage that off these small batteries. Obviously, if I were interested in those devices, I'd buy one with temperature control built in. They have those. Mainly for people that like showing off. But I'm happy with my older one that runs at about 8W that gets the job done hazard free.