What is vape

Even at the dawn of the development of vaping as a separate consumer culture, vapers, both real and potential, from all over the world asked themselves the question: what is more harmful than vaping or cigarettes? Of course, the absence of acrid and unpleasant smoke that could tar literally everything around, as well as the absence of ash and other waste in large quantities, were credited to vapes as an advantage. At the same time, the first vapers began to note that the steam from a vape devices does not lead to the formation of an unpleasant yellow plaque on the teeth. In general, those who love to smoke have received an excellent alternative to traditional smoking in all external signs, and even flavored with a rich variety of tastes and aromas. However, the question of harm still remained open. Moreover, vaping is still inhalation, if not smoke, but water vapor formed from specific chemical components.

What is vaping?

To understand what is safer, vaping or cigarettes, it would be necessary to clarify what smoking and vaping are in general. However, with cigarettes, everything is clear from the beginning: the tobacco shavings pressed into a paper cylinder simply burn, the smoker inhales this smoke, saturated with nicotine and other substances.

With vape, everything is much more complicated. Vapes are high-tech devices that consist of a battery pack (mod) with electronic filling and an atomizer (tank or drip). The mod from powerful high-current batteries supplies power to the atomizer, in which spirals are installed with cotton wool laid in them, along which liquid for vaping gradually enters the spirals. Heated on spirals at temperatures from 150 to 300 degrees, the liquid with aromatizers evaporates, entering the lungs of the bather.

Differences between a regular cigarette and a vape

Based on the foregoing, it is easy to guess that the main difference between ordinary cigarettes and vape is one fundamental condition. So, in the first case, the smoker inhales not just tobacco smoke, but actually smoke from a tiny fire smoldering at the end of the cigarette, and in the second, the vaper consumes water vapor from special ingredients (we will discuss them below), flavored with flavoring and, optionally, nicotine.

Vaping or smoking - which is more harmful

Today, as soon as the question is raised of what is more harmful than vaping or cigarettes, or what is safer for consumption, the participants in the discussion are always divided into two camps. Some argue that vaping is significantly less harmful to health, others argue that there is no difference between smoking cigarettes and vaping. In this case, the fact immediately catches the eye that there are practically no people who are ready to assert that vaping is more harmful than cigarettes, and this moment can be considered indicative, since even with simple input data it becomes clear that vaping really does much less harm, albeit is not completely harmless.

Dangers of tobacco smoke

And if you have not yet answered the question of which is better, vaping or cigarettes, it is important to study the features of what vaping is offered instead. We are talking about regular cigarettes and tobacco smoke. And there is no point in guessing, science has long studied the composition of smoke from cigarettes and even identified the range of diseases that it provokes.

For example, according to official medicine, there are 30 times more smokers among patients with lung cancer than non-smokers. It was this circumstance that at one time became the reason that the people called cigarettes "cancer sticks".

This is due to the fact that tobacco smoke contains not only tar and nicotine, which manufacturers have long been obliged to warn about on the packaging of tobacco products. Together with them, cigarette smoke saturates the human body with such dangerous substances as ant poison, hydrocyanic acid, acetone, isoprene, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide and dioxide, as well as about 4 thousand other chemical compounds, 40 of which are considered to be aggressive carcinogens, then there are substances that provoke the development of oncological diseases. Therefore, tar and nicotine, the content of which is always indicated on the pack, against the background of these compounds may well be considered one of the most harmless components of cigarettes.

However, the same tar, which is found in excess in tobacco smoke, aggravates the condition. It, for example, settles on the tissues of the lungs, turning them into a painful dark mass, unable to provide full saturation of blood with oxygen. Hence the side effects faced by most smokers, even with little experience: shortness of breath, cough, predisposition to respiratory and pulmonary diseases.

Is vaping harmful?

We will not be cunning - it is impossible to call vaping completely safe for the human body. But a number of fundamental differences between vaping and traditional cigarettes still support the theory that vaping causes the body tens or even hundreds of times less harm than a cigarette. And if there is no nicotine in the composition of the liquid used in the vape, we can say that the vape becomes almost completely harmless. That is, in fact, one can not compare vaping with cigarettes, but only wondering which is more dangerous, cigarettes or vaping with nicotine. Since without the presence of this alkaloid, the chances of a vape to harm health really tend to zero.

Although, medicine still has certain questions about the main components of vaping, even if they are caused not so much by their potential harm as by insufficient knowledge of the issue itself.

To understand why in the question of what is worse than a vape or a cigarette, there are some difficulties with the obvious advantages of vaping, it should be noted what exactly vapers "smoke".

The e-liquid is composed of vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol, flavoring and optionally nicotine.

It is unnecessary to talk about the fact that glycerin and propylene glycol are standard food additives that are common today, questions are only raised by their effect on the body when the vapor formed as a result of their heating is inhaled. What's really undeniable in terms of potential harm is flavored nicotine. However, these additional components in the composition of the liquid are negligible, in addition, they may be absent in it at all, so the obvious advantage in the dispute about less harm still remains with vapes.