Anti-vaping researchers are doing something wrong

[lazar]

Cancer shouldnt be the main concern. Most smokers dont develop cancer, ever, but they all do develop other health issues related to smoking. So if you want to decide which is worse, its probably the best to look for the other health issues caused by it.

[okiepitat-town]

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

[darkspace]

Subjectively, vaping feels like "nothing". And smoking makes you feel like an ashtray.

[dawfydd]

its gonna be a while before we really know, as it takes a long time for a product to have as lasting effect as smoking has had on us.
But it can't be healthy it shouldn't be encouraged as anything more than a way to quit smoking, and if you don't have to.. try not to do either.

[juliearmymom]

I had my first heart attack at 34. I was on heavy anti-inflammatory meds due to lupus. I also had vasculitis, and factor 5. I ended up having 3 heart attacks in 2 years. I smoked a pack a day. I was otherwise fit, and at a good weight. I started vaping, have for 16 years now, havent had a cardiac event since. My pulmonologist says an opera singer would be jealous of my lungs. That said, the walls of your home will get sticky from the pg and vg. One has to wonder if our insides are sticky from it as well.

[TheMunkzilla]

How about you just leave people alone? Cancer can happen no matter what.

[PaulMEdwards]

Good of you to highlight this flawed study... Now do COVID studies, many of which are similarly flawed.

[dancooper]

The opening would be where the parralel institutions can display a higher level of competence than the state, but also where it isnt illegal to do so. Unlike Kabul, USG is still competent enough to enforce its monopoly, if not competency.

[kilgoretrout]

THANK YOU REASON!!! I swear to you you’re the only source out there that does consistent, accurate reporting on vaping. Literally, THE ONLY one. I appreciate you so much for that. Thank you.

[shawnmikeska]

Isn’t as bad doesn’t mean good. Superheated glycols don’t make nice chemicals either.

[calholli]

Why the arbitrary number of 1000 observations? I'd want at least 100k or more or it's pointless.

[HarHah]

Just the air we breathe is full of yuck!

[danh]

oh god here goes reason defending smoking all over again. wasn’t it enough that ayn rand was wrong that lung cancer and smoking was left wing propaganda.

[benohara]

Why is reason tv so concerned with vaping?

[gteixeira]

My statistics professor once showed the correct way to draw an estimation from sampling and he told me that, barring any vices on sampling, you typically need a minimum of 60 samples to have a usual confidently accepted estimation even for an infinite population. Statistics is a very vast field, not something you can learn in a YouTube comment or short. Even a whole semester wasn't enough to dig the whole thing.

[TickedOffPriest]

It was never about science, it was always about politics.

[dtox]

by the way people lie in this sort of study s