I did a Twitter chat with the Campaign for Safer Alternatives on the typical objections raised to tobacco harm reduction. For those interested in the responses but who missed the live chat or got as confused as I did in trying to follow threaded answers, here is the chat as it unfolded over 15 questions with everything in the right order.
Contents
- Introduce yourself
- Does vaping create a gateway effect from vaping to smoking?
- Is vaping a trojan horse for the tobacco industry?
- Does vaping cause fluid build-up in the lungs?
- Does vaping cause ‘popcorn lung’?
- Do vaping flavours help adults quit smoking?
- What would be the outcome of a ban on flavours?
- Do flavours attract teens to vaping?
- Does teenage vaping justify banning vaping products?
- Did nicotine vaping cause the recent lung injury outbreak in the United States?
- What caused the US lung injury outbreak?
- Is there evidence that lung injuries were caused by black market THC vapes?
- Do regulated e-liquids contain toxic chemicals?
- What would bring more awareness about the value of THR?
- Does nicotine addiction cause a gateway effect?
1. Introduce yourself
2. Does vaping create a gateway effect from vaping to smoking?
[tweet 1197849578294464512 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197849863037300736 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197850008940359681 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197850142445129728 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1199285892357279746 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197850461535133696 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197851339247833088 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197851578495049731 hide_thread=’true’]
3. Is vaping a trojan horse for the tobacco industry?
[tweet 1197853242274791424 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197853298100973568 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197853464342204416 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197853614322180098 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197853848607567873 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197853998071664640 hide_thread=’true’]
4. Does vaping cause fluid build-up in the lungs?
[tweet 1197854909443563521 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197855596835475456 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1199288974726062080 hide_thread=’true’]
5. Does vaping cause ‘popcorn lung’?
[tweet 1197856012654579712 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197856163032895489 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197856309070172160 hide_thread=’true’]
Later tweets on the Canadian case
[tweet 1197963223070334977 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197963781214818307 hide_thread=’true’]
6. Do vaping flavours help adults quit smoking?
[tweet 1197857145955528704 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197857338838917120 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197858488539582465 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197859037121064960 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197861225994043393 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197861993681752064 hide_thread=’true’]
7. What would be the outcome of a ban on flavours?
[tweet 1197859796180975623 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197859942230827008 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197860461204647937 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197864060555071494 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197873634074906626 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197879768953303041 hide_thread=’true’]
8. Do flavours attract teens to vaping?
[tweet 1197860724275654656 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197860875551625216 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197861145757061121 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197861591179546624 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197865355282145280 hide_thread=’true’]
9. Does teenage vaping justify banning vaping products?
[tweet 1197862935940542470 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197863044992438273 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197863163913527296 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197863582697955329 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197863950496542723 hide_thread=’true’]
10. Did nicotine vaping cause the recent lung injury outbreak in the United States?
[tweet 1197864964612120583 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197865158242111488 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197865336940445696 hide_thread=’true’]
11. What caused the US lung injury outbreak?
[tweet 1197866977622216704 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197867567144148992 hide_thread=’true’]
12. Is there evidence that lung injuries were caused by black market THC vapes?
[tweet 1197868924622249985 hide_thread=’true’]
13. Do regulated e-liquids contain toxic chemicals?
[tweet 1197870834016227328 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197871403665674242 hide_thread=’true’]
14. What would bring more awareness about the value of THR?
[tweet 1197872526363418625 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197872634475753472 hide_thread=’true’]
15. Does nicotine addiction cause a gateway effect?
[tweet 1197864388776071169 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197866225323429888 hide_thread=’true’]
[tweet 1197866739763208192 hide_thread=’true’]
Great summary, Clive, thank you. Healthcare workers need to read this; as a trusted source of information I worry a lot about where *they’re* getting their information from
Thanks, Louise… some very big American players are now spreading bare-faced falsehoods about vaping. It’s as though AHA, ALA, AMA have gone all Trumpy with the truth.
I am just tired of all the nagging. Nine years vaping and felt like I did what they wanted but still getting nagged about vaping. Go to the dentist and get three of them in the room with me telling me the evils of vaping and how acidic it is on my teeth to the point of telling me cavities are showing up within weeks of being filled. Sitting in that chair with three people nagging me just takes me back to when I smoked and refused service due to tobacco smells on me. Can’t win for losing here and seems like the battle will go on until I pass away. (I am 62 right now)
I will never go back to smoking as when I switched to vaping I couldn’t even audio speak one sentence without coughing so hard it cracked my ribs. I am not getting sick over and over again with bronchitis and having to use three asthma puffers. My health is better so I really could do with a lot less nagging over my vaping.
Dear Kat – I absolutely sympathise. It must be so exhausting to have this amplified barrage of condemnation for basically doing exactly the right thing on your own initiative and at your own expense, taking personal responsibility for your own health without harming anyone else. Especially when the critics are wrong about almost everything about vaping.
You might like my evergreen blog post: Memo to public health grandees: vaping, vapers and you. It’s my most accessed blog.
And stick with it… it will make a big difference to quality of life over the coming decades.
Hi Clive and thanks for the reply back. I am not going to give up still as active online as I can be.
Is there some research or something for dental issues with vaping or to debunk it as I still have to go to the dentist and keep putting it off due to the nagging me over vaping. Maybe I will let people nag me when I am in my 90s but right now it just makes me very angry.
Pingback: Vaping Digest November 27th – vapers.org.uk
Pingback: Vaping Digest 27th November – vapers.org.uk