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2024-05-19 21:01:04 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 49A551CC174A0DBBCDE19711F923C19E72ACD1DFA7417A9D6D857AD626096E74
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cigarettes contain up to 750x the amount of diacetyl than e-cigarettes do, and never caused a single case of popcorn lung. This is nothing more than a urban myth https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/12/new-study-finds-that-average-diacetyl.html https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vaping-causes-popcorn-lung/ https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/does-vaping-cause-popcorn-lung https://reason.org/backgrounder/debunking-the-myth-that-vaping-causes-popcorn-lung/ https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/vaping-to-quit-smoking/vaping-myths-and-the-facts/ https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Myth:_Vaping_causes_Popcorn_Lung All ingredients for e-liquid are water soluble, they don't mix with oil https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Propylene-Glycol https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Glycerin Proven safer than smoking https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nicotine-vaping-in-england-2022-evidence-update
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