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[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

can say that my vapes feel way way way less harmful than cigarettes.

This might not have any connection to the actually safety though, it could be the tobacco smoke is harsher on the lungs so you feel it but the vape could contain more heavy metals that your lungs/throat don't detect.

But I think you're right, from what I've heard the higher quality vapes don't have the issue with leaching metals from the heating element.

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's true. Still, I feel just fine after all these years, and my lung capacity is way better than it used to be when I smoked cigs. That's not to say that it's perfectly safe, absolutely nobody should ever start vaping unless it's for harm reduction.

[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah my experience with them mirrors yours. I wouldn’t claim they’re safe, or they won’t kill me, but there are multiple major ways they don’t affect me the way cigarettes did—sense of smell, lung capacity/congestion, awful smell leaching into clothes, etc.

From a harm reduction standpoint, I think they have a good use case. I don’t like nicotine gum or pouches, I want the throat hit/nicotine feeling. Early vapes didn’t really do it for me, but I kept with em to make SO happy. Then I found Nov salts and that gave me what I was looking for.