The Dangers of Vaping: What We Know
When vaping became mainstream a little over a decade ago, it was initially marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes, or a way to help wean yourself off nicotine gradually. But in reality, it’s a lot more complicated than that.
On Friday, August 23rd, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first death following an outbreak of severe lung disease in those who use e-cigarette or vaping devices. According to CDC Director Dr. Robert R. Redfield, this reinforces the serious health risks associated with e-cigarette products — as well as how much is still unknown.
“Vaping exposes users to many different substances for which we have little information about related harms – including flavorings, nicotine, cannabinoids, and solvents,” Redfield said in a statement. The CDC is currently working with state and local health departments and FDA to investigate the cause of this ongoing outbreak.
Giving that vaping is relatively new — especially given America’s long history with cigarettes and other tobacco products — there is a lot we are still learning about its impact on the body, both in the long- and short-term. Here’s what we know so far:
Vaping 101
The first electronic cigarette was patented in 1965, and consisted of a battery-powered element would heat tobacco flavor without combustion. A similar smokeless non-tobacco product, called the Flavor Cigarette was introduced in 1986, but never took off. The modern e-cigarette as we know it was developed in China in 2003, and made it over to the United States a few years later.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, “e-cigarettes” or “vape pens” describe battery-operated nicotine delivery systems which are activated when a person puffs, vaporizing the liquid in the cartridge. The person then inhales the resulting aerosol or vapor — known as “vaping.” In addition to nicotine, it’s also possible to vape other substancese liek tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical in marijuana that produces the feeling of being high.
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She likes the high but she hates the dizziness and vomiting that she gets.
It is not for everyone, that is for certain. 
I think that it helps alter the mind's perception of pain. It does not prevent nor ease pain and I've tried it all from CBD capsules ($$$$$$$) to 50+ mg THC capsules to Indica strains that are over 30%. More $$$$$$ I do not have.
No help w/pain and awful spasms from MS sorry to say!
They tell me "Studies say this works!".
Studies say one thing but a person that has tried it all and has the actual problem says nay and oh they do not like that.
It has become a panacea IMO.
but now that it is legal in CA, I do all my smoking at home...for medical reasons, and I like the high, JUJU and I often go on IMVU together and smoke weed, Its great!
I laid off cannabis for a long while back then.
I'm 62 and cannabis absolutely agrees with me now.
People change and I hope your daughter gets well.
But no, both were smoking it. That's interesting about edibles -- I didn't know. 
Mr. CAV was a 4-pack a day smoker in 1978.
He quit cold turkey and never went back.
Today he is 84 years old and he is outside in the yard doing some gardening at the moment.
Every one else in his family is dead from tobacco (cancer). So sad.
I love pipes!
it TAKES too long to roll papers, besides, I don't trust papers...its something I am breathing in and I have no idea what the papers are made from, most likely wood. So...I smoke it from a pipe... or if I could afford it, a bong!
Juju and I have the same pipe...but they are not hard to find, and Hey! This is San Francisco full of head shops! As The Jefferson Airplane sang, feed your head!
Last year a guy in the UK bought a vape, took it out to his car to smoke it and died when the battery exploded in his face. Why it exploded? bad battery? 
Who knows, but I won't use them any longer, no thanks.
And this...
A man dies after his e-cigarette explodes in his face
(CNN)A Texas man died of a massive stroke after the e-cigarette he was using exploded and tore his carotid artery.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office says that William Brown died in a Fort Worth hospital on January 29 -- just weeks shy of his 25th birthday. The death certificate says he died from cerebral infarction and herniation after debris from the exploding vape pen dissected his left carotid artery.
The explosion reportedly happened on January 27, in the parking lot of a store that sells smoking and vaping supplies.
The manager of Smoke and Vape DZ told CNN affiliate KTVT that he called an ambulance after the explosion.
Brown had gone into the shop to ask for help using his vape pen, but did not buy anything, according to KTVT. The shop said they don't sell that brand of vape pen.
Brown was rushed to the hospital and his family told KTVT that he was put into a medically-induced coma and that x-rays showed that part of the e-cigarette was lodged in his throat.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/health/exploding-vape-pen-death-trnd/index.html
Pipe check!
Cannabis Bud check!
fire lighter, or Matches, Check!
Juju told me she is going to totally switch over to Protabs...
Which is okay but its expensive, My alternative is Chocolate
I keep a whole bar in the freezer just for a time when its hard to smoke.. but like I said
I try to keep it simple. I have two vapes that I will probaby throw out.. they may never explode in my face, but there is always that possibility it could happen some day... i just
don't want to go through that... so ... I will keep it simple!
