While it would be great if there were some piece of science that totally prove to what we all believe about e-cigarettes (that they are clealy less harmful than cigarettes), I think what would be even more important is to simply find the actual truth.

One of the reasons I think everybody gets excited about positive studies is that they exist in the face of so many studies engineered or manipulated to try to make electronic cigarettes look bad. Again, totally understandable.

But what gets lost in that back and forth is the truth. When we started smoking, we all knew how dangerous it was. That’s why many of us switched to e-cigarettes. Because we honestly believe it is less harmful than regular cigarettes. Just about anything short of drinking Drano has got to be safer than smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Because the entire tobacco prohibition establishment has gotten a hold of the science and is dedicated to prove in these things are dangerous or even as bad as cigarettes, that leaves us to fend for ourselves.

The simple truth is I wanna know if there is any kind of harm and what that harm is regarding e-cigarettes. I want to be able to make an informed decision about what I’m doing.

I can’t really get that picture. There’s a whole lot of signal to noise going on. The studies that seem to actually be interested in finding out which really going on with the cigarettes are highly specialized and look at one narrow area much like the cardiac study. This is the equivalent of getting a single piece of the jigsaw puzzle inside of a box full of sawdust.

It’s not that I reject every negative study that’s out there. I just want to know what’s really going on without having the slightest negative thing or uncertainty blown out of proportion to make it sound like the stuff going to kill my whole family.

I’m a big boy. I’d like to make big boy decisions all by myself. If there is a study that comes out and shows some sort of harm we did not anticipate, I want to know about it. I want to evaluate the risk, not having somebody scream about a ban or about the poor, poor children.

I mean, we know there are way less chemicals in e-cigarettes than are in traditional cigarettes. But, let’s face it, we’re also doing things to food flavorings that were never really imagined. Maybe something is up in the reaction that’s caused when you vaporize the stuff, but since most of the studies are working on demonizing nicotine or otherwise trying to support the misguided notion of a ban, there’s not a lot of focus on what’s actually happening there.

I guess what I’m trying to say is positive studies are fantastic, but sometimes it’s frustrating to not get the whole picture because prohibitionists have co-opted many of the available scientific resources.

I think if given the truth and if some sort of harm were found, we as vapers would then decide how to address these things. Whether it be through modifying the current things we use, or even making the move to making vaping a short-term thing.

It’s not like we labor under the illusion that e-cigarettes are 100% safe. Nothing is.

I think for now though we’re going to have to continue stumbling through the dark getting little bits and pieces as we go.

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