Thursday 27 June 2019

Vaping Ban On Health Grounds

Something that nobody tells you when you switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes is that because you are inhaling nicotine, you actually get more from the e-cigarette than you do from smoking a cigarette because you don't know when you have had a cigarettes worth and you just keep inhaling and the result of the extra nicotine is some very funky dreams.
Usually quite fun, they can be very vivid, lucid and weird dreams especially if you have a good blast before you go to bed but the flip side is the nightmares are also much more terrifying as i found out which can be very, very scary.
Apart from the weird dreams, generally e-cigarettes are considered harmless and the NHS are even considering offering them for free which makes he ban by San Francisco on health grounds a bit of a strange one.
Inhaling nicotine is not dangerous in itself especially when compared to the many poisonous chemicals contained in tobacco smoke and nicotine does not cause cancer unlike tobacco in normal cigarettes and doctors, public health experts, cancer charities and governments in the UK all agree that, based on the current evidence, e-cigarettes carry a fraction of the risk of cigarettes but it is the 'based on current evidence' where San Francisco have got the jitters.
The ban is to stay in place until their health effects are clearer which echoes the ban in Australia which is reviewing all the available evidence of the health impacts of vaping and e-cigarette liquids.
As vaping is still very new and the effects are unknown then it is probably correct that a full review is conducted but i have always had two other fears over e-cigarettes which are hard to argue against.
The first is that the e-cigarette companies are aiming their wares at the under 18 market. Hard to argue when you see flavours such as ice cream, bubble gum and candy floss while the second is that the 'safe' aspect of vaping is tempting people to try smoking who would not have necessarily have and i've met people who have tried vaping, liked it and then tried a cigarette.
The best course of action is to not smoke at all and e-cigarettes are great for smokers who are addicted to nicotine already but there should be the concern that they do prove attractive to non-smokers and the under-age and i have seen myself them act as a gate-way to real cigarettes.
Inconvenient for vapers but until the evidence points conclusively one way or the other, i can't blame San Francisco for the ban.

8 comments:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

Yeah, San Francisco. What a winner. Used to be the best city in America to visit. Now, you have weave through a throng of homeless people openly using crack, shitting on the sidewalks, pissing on the light posts, and directly confronting you... by all means get rid of that terrible vaping SF...

Falling on a bruise said...

Damn the left for making people crap on the pavements and pee up lamp posts!!

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

no, damn them for enabling and encouraging them...

Falling on a bruise said...

I will bring it up at the next meeting, we must stop encouraging homeless people to use the pavement as a toilet.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

no we don't. we should just give them your home. then they have a potty.

SF is likely the most left city in america (portland, seattle, NYC are close), and likely has the highest real estate prices in america (certainly top 5). they also have a rich rich rich population. those greedy rich leftists just need to build a lot more free houses for the homeless...

Falling on a bruise said...

So if that is the criteria, as the MP for my City is Conservative, i can blame them for everything that happens. Someone nicked my recycling bin, bloody right wing and don't get me started on the light that has been broken for weeks outside the garage, damn right wing @a$!!/£'s.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

why not, you already do it everyday.

in america, cities are not controlled by the president (yet). the cities with the worst problems have been controlled by leftist mayors for decades (chicago, san franciso, los angeles, detroit, cleveland, wash d.c.).

prime example: illegal to carry a gun in chicago. guess which city has the highest murder rate in america? yeah, chicago.

another example: which city is most dominated by unions? why, the wonderful city of Detroit.

i blame the mayor and city councils of these cities, not the president. especially since the problems have straddled numerous leftist presidents.

but, if you want to continue to ignore the data and logic, press on.

Falling on a bruise said...

Unfortunately I don’t do that because I wouldn’t be as ridiculous or as zealous to blame something someone does on the political party running the city, that’s just desperate.