• Gaywallet (they/it)M
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    11 year ago

    Apologies, upon re-reading my comment I see that I didn’t really spend enough time to word this appropriately. Vapes are not harmless. There is absolutely a harm to inhaling any vaporized liquid, or just inhaling hot gas in general. We don’t know the full extent of the harms it causes, but we have a decent amount of knowledge from similar hot inhaled substances to draw some high level conclusions.

    I was mostly speaking towards the harm reduction angle and how many places around the world have taken a hard stance on this - banning the substance because it is problematic. It always struck me as rather shortsighted, especially when presented with the alternative, a much more adulterated and toxic substance, still being legal. In general drug prohibitions do not work and I appreciate an article talking about the intricacies of that.

    • @Hirom@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Your comment rather well written. And you make a good point on prohibition potentially doing more harm than good, and didn’t present vaping as harmless.

      I wanted to highlight that vaping isn’t a clear cut solution for smoking harm reduction. Probably should have posted as a separate comment rather than reply. It’s a reaction on the article itself as much as on your comment.