2 Jul 2022 5:50 am
Vaping doesn't involve combustion so there is a greatly diminished cancer risk. Propylene glycol has been used to create stage smoke since Shakespeare. It's a low risk product. We found some flavorings were hazardous to inhale and the market quickly removed them without government intervention.JinnMartini » 02 Jul 2022, 5:19 am » wrote: ↑ The car we're renting here in Japan has a big sticker on the dashboard, warning that smoking is stricktly prohibited.
Underneat it, with even bolder letters it says : INCLUDING E-CIGARETTES !
How would they be ENFORCING this rule ?
And, honestly, I could never understand why someone would smoke those chemicals !
I believe they're even more hazardous than normal cigarettes.
That is my conviction, anyway.
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By the way . . . think about how much paper someone smokes in one year, by a pack a day ! ! !
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Anatomy of a Cigarette
Conventional Cigarette
Note: This virtual cigarette does not represent a particular brand but describes the structure of many of the most popular brands of cigarettes on the market.
Tobacco
Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called "reconstituted tobacco" or "homogenized sheet tobacco," which is made from a pulp of mashed tobacco stems and other parts of the tobacco leaf that would otherwise go to waste. Manufacturers spray and impregnate reconstituted tobacco paper with nicotine and other substances lost during the process, along with as many as 600 chemical additives. These include several that may come as a surprise, such as ammonia, which aids in the delivery of nicotine, and chocolate, which masks the bitter taste of tobacco. Finally, the 'recon' is sliced to resemble shredded leaf tobacco.
In addition to reconstituted tobacco, cigarette companies pack cigarettes with so-called puffed tobacco (also called "expanded tobacco"), which allows them to produce more cigarettes per pound of tobacco grown with lower levels of tar particles in the smoke. Manufacturers saturate this tobacco, which they make from the leaf of the plant, with freon and ammonia gases and then freeze-dry it. This process expands the tobacco, increasing its volume to at least double its natural state.
