Vaping is 95% safer than smoking traditional cigarettes
After releasing a recent report on e-cigarettes, the UK Public Health Service recommends that vaping is 95% safer than smoking traditional cigarettes, but do you understand this 95% figure?
This statistic does not mean that 95 people will die from smoking but only 5 people will die from vaping. Or that you will lose 95 days of your life if you smoke but only 5 days if you vape. It does not carry any of these messages, although many people believe that this number still shows that vaping is really harmful. If you are still confused about the safety or toxicity of vaping, this article is for you.
The harmful substances in e-cigarettes are 95 times lower than in cigarettes.
The concentrations of carcinogens and other harmful substances inhaled and in the vape smoke are 95 times lower than those in vapor products. This does not mean that the risk from these harmful compounds is less than 95%. It may just be that the concentrations are lower, you can also understand that some chemicals are harmless in small doses but become toxic in large doses, but this relationship is not always true. Most of the concentrations of chemicals in vape smoke are less than 1% of those in traditional cigarettes, and the concentrations of chemicals in its vapor are much lower than the limits of conventional cigarettes sold. 95% is just a rounded number to make you feel safe when enjoying a vape, in reality the chemicals are said to be equally harmful, but it is worth noting that vape vapor contains less than 5% of the total amount of toxins found in cigarette smoke.
Substances found only in vapes are not considered to have changed significantly enough to cause harm.
As in many previous articles, The Vape Club has talked about vaping and health, the natural flavors in vapes are very safe and are substances that are not found in any cigarette. Therefore, this is just a normal type of smoking and is more beneficial to the health of users, which is also the reason why vaping has become a craze. However, that does not mean that there are no toxic chemicals when we inhale, but there is no evidence to prove that they are toxic. A few liquid flavors have been identified as potentially harmful when inhaled, but they are harmless when we eat them.
95% is not a harmful number.
These figures do not mean that cigarettes are 95% harmful and vaping is only 5% harmful, nor do they represent any unreasonable recommendations that are about to be made by experts. Another good news for the vaping community and those who are planning to vape, these reasonable reports are released by a government agency, perhaps they want to inflate this information into any number so that they can easily put a title or hang it in public places, this is really not a good way and it is actually quite "effective" when people spread this figure widely without understanding the meaning or completely misunderstanding it.
Compiled from:
UK Government Portal
The Guardian
Through this article, I hope readers can understand more about vaping. If you want to be a civilized smoker, up to this point, vaping will definitely be the right choice.
The Vietnamese Vape community has begun to grow and needs the cooperation of the whole community to let everyone - those who do not vape - understand that vaping is much safer, more civilized and cleaner than cigarettes.
For a future of Vietnamese Vape ,
Vape on!
