Non smoker. But medically speaking, the place I go to says you don't get that classification change until you have been off the butts for one year.
I spoke with my GP and my Endocrinologist and both gave me the same answer. (BTW my Endo is on the board currently doing a 2 year study on the effects of vaping within Texas)
While it is better than smoking by far, you are still inhaling something that is not supposed to be in the lungs.
After saying that, my Endo said that in so far all reports to the board that he sits on there have been no cases that he has seen to suggest that vaping has done significant harm to an individual except for one case, but this person was soon excluded from the report as he was found to have an allergy to VG.
He also did mention that there is a lab test ongoing where a series of mice are being kept in a "fog" of mixtures (different mice being given a different mixture between 100% VG to 50/50 VG/PG to 90% PG) and other than some effects that are to be expected due to the 100% humidity 100% of the time there are still no signs of long term damages. This is the same type of experiment that caused some artificial sweeteners to be pulled from shelves (come on, a diet of nothing but 100% artificial sweeteners is going to kill anyone).
When I see him again in 6 months I will ask for an update.
the researchers found that the propylene glycol itself was a potent germicide. One part of glycol in 2,000,000 parts of air would—within a few seconds—kill concentrations of air-suspended pneumococci, streptococci and other bacteria numbering millions to the cubic foot.
How did it work? Respiratory disease bacteria float about in tiny droplets of water breathed, sneezed and coughed from human beings. The germicidal glycol also floats in infinitesimally small particles. Calculations showed that if droplet had to hit droplet, it would take two to 200 hours for sterilization of sprayed air to take place. Since sterilization took place in seconds, Dr. Robertson concluded that the glycol droplets must give off gas molecules which dissolve in the water droplets and kill the germs within them.
But there's one new wrinkle. Behavioral psychologist David Abrams says this report makes a significant distinction between the harmfulness of burning tobacco and less harmful ways of delivering the nicotine that keeps people addicted.
The report concludes that "cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products" should be eliminated.
"That is new because it implies that less harmful forms of getting one's nicotine — especially if one cannot quit smoking cigarettes — may be acceptable," Abrams tells Shots.
Those allegedly less harmful nicotine delivery systems include e-cigarettes, along with nicotine patches, gums, nasal sprays, inhalers and lozenges.
E-cigarettes are electronic cigarettelike devices that don't burn tobacco. They release nicotine in a vapor that doesn't contain the toxic chemicals that cause most of smoking's harm.
Abrams helped write the report's last chapter on "the changing landscape of tobacco control." He works for Legacy for Health, an anti-tobacco group set up as part of a 1998 legal settlement with the tobacco industry.
Abrams thinks e-cigarettes could help wean millions away from cigarettes. "For the first time in a century," he says, "we have an appealing alternative way to give addicted current smokers a satisfying way to give up their combusted products."
I stopped smoking over 2 years ago.............. And that is the only information they will ever get out of me!!!!
FDA Passes the Deeming Reg's and the Doctors/Insurance/Tax people will automatically own us again.