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Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes: High Levels of Lead, Other Hazardous Metals Found in E-Cigarettes Popular with Teens

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  • C [email protected]

    Do these threats exist in the exhaled smoke? It seems like people around me don't GAF about the exhaust from vapes.

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    Those people are jackasses and should be shamed. I quit a 6 year cigarette smoking habit with just one year of using an actual vape, not these shitty gas station things. One of the best decisions I've made in my life. The potential for smoking cessation is there. But stupid and obnoxious people set the basis for stereotypes.

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      Just send me all the batteries!!!!!!

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      Why? Have you heard of Aliexpress?

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        Why? Have you heard of Aliexpress?

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        I buy small lithium ion batteries all the time. Recycling and free is much cooler though

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        • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

          They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day’s use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes.

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          Nice try Marlboro Man!

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          • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

            They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day’s use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes.

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            Guess I'm gonna be ultra fucked. I'm not going back to cigarettes. And I already quit nicotine once for seven and a half years. Starting again was the biggest mistake of my life cause I don't wanna go through that again. Oh well, it's not like we have much chance at a future anyway.

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            • R [email protected]

              I buy small lithium ion batteries all the time. Recycling and free is much cooler though

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              Do you recycle condoms you find on the ground too? Vapes are probably the most disgusting thing recently invented.

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              • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day’s use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes.

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                Fucking duh

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                  They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day’s use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes.

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                  I wonder if this is part of why gen Z is turning conservative.

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                  • R [email protected]

                    Like I said, the three companies named there are not the same companies, but you claim they are, and are sourcing it from the same Chinese sweatshop, even tho they don't even seem Chinese.

                    https://www.elfbar.com/

                    https://www.escobarvape.org/

                    https://mipod.com/collections/

                    So, again, can I get a source for your claim that all these are the same company sourcing their stuff from Chinese sweatshop?

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                    Since nobody else will provide the actual clarity

                    EscobarVape and Elfbar are created by two separate Chinese companies, Shenzhen Innokin Technology Co. Ltd and Shenzhen iMiracle Technology respectively. Mi-Bar is created by an American company but has partnered with Elfbar to distribute Elfbar products in the US

                    Really wish more people would just provide the facts that speak for themselves, rather than point fingers about who is and isn't doing their research

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                    • S [email protected]

                      Guess I'm gonna be ultra fucked. I'm not going back to cigarettes. And I already quit nicotine once for seven and a half years. Starting again was the biggest mistake of my life cause I don't wanna go through that again. Oh well, it's not like we have much chance at a future anyway.

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                      Dude, I hope you try to quit those too. If you've ever met someone who can't breathe from COPD, it's a tough time for them.

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                        **PROMOTED BY THE “MAD MEN” AT LUCKY STRIKE!

                        Just have a cocktail and smoke a cig, it’s better than weed and ecigs! How dare you switch because of rat poison found in our cigs and how the RICH banded hemp due to lobbying by the paper people… not due to anything else! Cool!

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                          I can’t fathom how they’re legal. Disposable e cigarettes? The waste is insane, and the people using then aren’t properly disposing of them either..

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                          This. So much effort being put into regulating zero-waste bags and attached bottle cups yet those vapes fly under the radar

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                            The coils don't burn it's the cotton that burns and causes dry hits and burnt flavor.

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                            You're splitting hairs. The coils get red hot on dry wick and it burns. The coils are overheating.

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                              I think you kinda made my point for me, once the cart has hit the temperature at which it releases those chemicals the cart is immediately ruined. This kind of goes to my 'if you burn the whole cigarette including the filter the net result is even more toxic'. I mean, sure, but that's really gross data manipulation.

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                              The ruined coil is if you run it too hot for too long... You're being naive if you think it never runs a little dry and the coils never get red hot.

                              If you have a tank that exposes the coil from the air hole, just look inside it and see how red it gets from a one second hit.

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                                I can’t fathom how they’re legal. Disposable e cigarettes? The waste is insane, and the people using then aren’t properly disposing of them either..

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                                There needs to be a $20 deposit on them that you get back when you turn in the empty vape.

                                Or, hot take, make vapes you can refill.

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                                  Yeah it's totally because everything is "stupid" and not the fact that you have no argument outside of superficial fearmongering which falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. It's so stupid that you keep replying with nonsense talking about how anyone else's statements are unworthy of replying to 🙄

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                                  superficial

                                  You're right. Cancer is superficial damage. Speaking of which, enjoy your cancer.

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                                    Those people are jackasses and should be shamed. I quit a 6 year cigarette smoking habit with just one year of using an actual vape, not these shitty gas station things. One of the best decisions I've made in my life. The potential for smoking cessation is there. But stupid and obnoxious people set the basis for stereotypes.

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                                    The amount of nicotine one gets per puff in a vape is greater than a cigarette. As cigarettes are generally being made illegal, big tobacco needs to circumvent the law (which governments usually give multiple years notice to relevant companies). Sadly, using vapes is not giving up cigarette smoking but merely moving addiction from one nicotine method to another. Teens vaping causing a life-long addiction is no different from teens smoking and doing the same.

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                                      If you read the paper, it assumes a 100% absorption rate of the heavy metals emitted.

                                      I'm not here to defend vapes but I think that is a seriously overlooked flaw in this study. Most people don't puff a cigarette/vape and hold it in their lungs until it's completely absorbed.

                                      Couldn't see anything about the bioavailability of these carcinogens via lungs factored into the absorption rate either.

                                      Ontop of that the sample size from this study is abysmal and from the same manufacturer and there is also a declared conflict of interest.

                                      IMO more studies need to be done before we can conclusively determine the damage and risks of disposable vapes.

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                                      Some of the studies on smoking I've seen were less about understanding how and why people consume tobacco and recommend alternatives, and more like echoing the old practices and beliefs of the temperance movement, which considers tobacco and alcohol as archenemies of humanity. That anytime there's someone publicly declaring they quit smoking, it's followed with praises which at times reminiscent of a tent revival.

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                                        superficial

                                        You're right. Cancer is superficial damage. Speaking of which, enjoy your cancer.

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                                        Nicotine doesn't cause cancer, tobacco does.

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                                          Do you recycle condoms you find on the ground too? Vapes are probably the most disgusting thing recently invented.

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                                          It's not like the batteries come out all covered in vape juice. And I have zero intent to pick up the habit.

                                          To be fair, they should treat them like milk jugs back in the day and require a deposit on disposable vapes.

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