• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Oh wow it’s as of e-cigs is just like cigarettes, but besides cancer and toxic chemicals, they also found a way to add more waste.

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        9 months ago

        [Citation needed]. Both of you.

        There’s been a study which found carcinogenic compounds in vapour… thing is they overdrove the thing so hard that it was burning the wick, noone would actually take a puff of that. It’s the equivalent of setting a toaster to maximum and then saying that bread causes cancer.

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        9 months ago

        There’s little evidence of pure nicotine being carcinogenic afaik. Nicotine in tobacco is carcinogenic due to certain reactions with other chemicals in the tobacco plant

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        9 months ago

        I mean, it is, but smoke and, weirdly, polonium are also very large contributors to cancer from tobacco use.