Considering to buy one for a family member.

  • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe
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    12 hours ago

    I’m not trying to shift the conversation, vaping is better as a replacement. Whether it’s to quit altogether or not afterwards is irrelevant.

    Something being less harmful should not be taken immediatly as better… but if that’s enough for you then yes, everything else is irrelevant and it explains why you are happy with just that information, I’ll just leave my reply to this comment and stop wasting your time since it’s irrelevant.

    Irrelevant reply ahead, do not read:

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    I don’t get why you say it’s not regulated because it is, at least in my country and in a lot of others.

    Depends on what we call regulated, if you mean legal to sell and consume, then yes it is (well… in my country the expresident wanted to ban it to return the control to the narcos but that’s besides the point).
    I meant regulated as having a standard, which materials are safe to use, which chemicals are safe to use to create the aerosols, which materials are safe to use for the coil that will heat the product, if it needs to use a filter and which kind of filter and so on, and penalize brands that create harmful products.

    There are a lot of research, the sources for the video you posted has some, here is another well known one.

    The research you linked says further research is needed, due to many important differences in manufacture and content of every brand it’s not possible to give a gold standard, recommendation or to be certain about the negative effects of the heated tobacco aerosols.

    I also don’t understand why you speak about water related to vapor

    Because it matters, aerosols are also a gas but they cause a different effect on the body than steam and it reeks of marketing calling it vapor because addressing it as an aerosol has a negative perception.

    Also the herbs are never going to be 100% dry so they’ll have some water, creating a little bit of steam, but that’s only one of the many vaporised elements

    I REALLY doubt the ammount of water the dried nugs keep inside them is enough to generate enough steam for the ammount of gas one can inhale from a dry-herb vape… as someone who one time forgot to add water to a lemongrass infusion (made the old way, adding the grass directly to the water and then boil it), I don’t think what came out of that grass could have been steam past the first seconds.

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      7 hours ago

      This is what’s called “risk reduction”, less harmful is better.

      I meant regulated as having standards, of course.

      Of course it says further research is needed, most papers say that. Again I’ve yet to see a paper that puts vape as more harmful that smoke.

      I’ve never seen vape marketing using the word steam, vapor is the scientifically correct word, it’s not an aerosol. An aerosol is a solid or liquid element in suspension inside a gas, this is not the case, the elements you are inhaling are gaseous, it’s a vapor.

      And how would you know the amount of water in the myst you see? How can you visually differentiate between the elements? The vapor is composed of all the elements with lower boiling point (I made a mistake using the word melting point in my previous message) than what you set on the vaporiser. Smoke has water in it too.

      It’s really simple, burn the thing and you get a very night temperature, almost everything gets vaporised, a lot of elements react to create more harmful ones and you get a lot of smoke (with a little bit of water in it too). Now use a vaporiser, heat it a lot less, to a lower temperature and less elements get vaporised, there are way less reactions (no CO) and you get way less visible gas.

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        3 hours ago

        Nah, it’s irrelevant, let it die

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        Also the study you linked also calls the vaper’s gas an aerosol, but I guess that would require actually reading and understanding instead of blindingly defending a product and ignoring my point over and over, just let it die

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          Yeah, I expected this.

          You accuse me of shifting the conversation and you end up being the one doing it. I never said the conversation was irrelevant, I said that whether or not the end goal was to stop or not was irrelevant in deciding about switching to a less toxic mode of consumption.

          You complain that it’s mostly bro-saying, marketing and low quality source but when the conversation becomes serious you drop it and never bring any research to your argument.

          And you don’t even know the definition of words central to the subject, like vaporisation or aerosol, and yet you act like you know, saying so many approximate to downright false things. It’s OK not to know a subject, no one can know everything, but don’t act like you, misleading people along the way.

          I’m OK continuing this conversation if you bring some substance to it. Other please edit your initial message to avoid misleading people.

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            1 hour ago

            I’m OK continuing this conversation if you bring some substance to it

            You don’t even read what you link, you get all pissy when someone gets tired of you missing the point since the beginning and now requests substance when you never added any?
            Just how entitled to be right can you be?

            Like I said, I’m done, you keep arguing whatever you want to believe I’m thinking and saying. It is irrelevant.