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Originally Posted by Tnerped
Besides hearsay, what exactly from vaping is doing this? I've vaped for almost 10 years, and my lungs have only gotten better.
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There's a lot of newer info that I'm not as up to date on regarding vaping and lung injury. When new smoking cessation guidelines came out in early 2019, they were pretty agnostic about vaping, saying that it's better than smoking, but you're far better off actually trying to quit and using some combination of medication and counseling. They wouldn't make a recommendation about it at all. Late last year a lot of info came in, but I really don't know how solid the evidence is yet. One of the big culprits seemed to be vitamin E acetate, but I don't know how in depth those population studies are.
From a common sense perspective, you generally don't want a lot of aerosolized foreign particles in your lungs. Some are more harmful than others, obviously, but less is going to be better.
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