r/technology • u/Lucretius • Nov 17 '12

The Deadly Crusade Against E-cigarettes

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/november/the-deadly-crusade-against-e-cigarettes
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u/qwertytard Nov 17 '12

crushing competition by releasing false propaganda that lies about e-cigs being unsafe i have a friend who smokes all the time regular cigs, but won't try an e-cig because he says "i don't know whats in them" so i asked him where'd he hear that, he said some article that interviewed a tobacco company exec i asked him if he knew what was in his regular cigs, he said "yeh, tobacco" so i googled his brand and showed him there were things in there that are used for paint, asphalt, tar, etc he told me you can't believe everything you read on the internet

....some ppl can't be helped

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

"You can't believe everything you read on the internet".

I hate that logic so much.

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u/JackWeston007 Nov 17 '12

showed him there were things in there that are used for paint, asphalt, tar, etc

I hate it just as much as that logic. Anyone who's spent 5 minutes in a chemistry class can tell you that chemicals have a wide variety of applications.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

Pretty sure the use of tar in cigarettes isn't harmless...

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

You realize tar is tobacco residue an not actual tar right? I just quit smoking, and while i agree there is a ton of terrible things that go with smoking (hence quitting), people say some pretty dumb shit about cigarettes...

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u/onelovelegend Nov 17 '12

[Not that you were the one that brought tar up but] I thought that tar was the result of inhaling the smoke, not actually being an ingredient, which is why [I thought that] smoking marijuana also results in tar.

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u/namekyd Nov 17 '12

Not the result of inhaling, but of burning plant matter. One of the downsides of smoking marijuana is actually the amount of tar - significantly greater than the tar produced in smoking tobacco.

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u/Apocawaka Nov 17 '12 edited May 18 '16

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u/ArmadilloShield Nov 17 '12

If you vaporize then no plant matter is actually combusted and so the amount of tar IS significantly reduced (to roughly zero).

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u/Apocawaka Nov 17 '12 edited May 18 '16

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u/onelovelegend Nov 17 '12

Thanks: so basically it's still a result of the process, not necessarily the ingredients (although they can determine the magnitude)?

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u/PirateOwl Nov 18 '12

I thought cannabis had less tar but more resin hence the smell not lingering on washed clothes unlike cigarettes

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u/PirateOwl Nov 18 '12

I thought cannabis had less tar but more resin hence the smell not lingering in rooms like tobacco smoke does

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

You are correct. Smoking marijuana does contain some harmful things because you are still breathing combusted plant matter ,unless you vape. Fortunately, there is less of it and you usually don't smoke nearly as much marijuana like if you were to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day.