Hey it’s not my brand so I must be fine 
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robot dick gang still toking on my VHS tape sized mod over here, I fucking hate disposable vapes
lead author Mark Salazar said in a statement.
he's a lead author I'm sure he finds in in everything
common "don't breathe this" w
"Unleaded e-cigs currently in development!" 
Welp, guess I’m dead 
Yeah can we just keep pretending they’re better than cigs?
I always knew they were bad. Will I quit? I hope so, soon.
I got a really bad flu and became disgusted with my vape. Allah blessed me with that illness I'm now over a year nicotine free (I don't count hookah every few weeks hehe)
Growing up, my aunt had a boxer. Beautiful, lovely dog. It died of the same type of cancer my dad did, bronchial. My dad smoked like a chimney and had since he was a literal child. The dog maybe encountered a little second hand outside, but no one smoked in the house. It lived on a nice little piece of land in the country.
I'm not saying my vape isn't giving me cancer. I'm saying everything is giving me cancer.
I found the study
In brief, Pb, Cr, Ni, and Sb concentrations in all dPODs analyzed in this study exceeded those of the third generation MODs by up to 3 orders of magnitude and fourth generation JUUL aerosols by up to 4 orders of magnitude.
The disposables that you can't refill or recharge that have been rampant in recent years seem to be much much more toxic for you than a regular box mod or even e-cigs like Juul.
I know Juul uses ceramic coils, that probably helps
Disposables are so conceptually gross to me too. Like a whole ass battery in plastic, designed specifically to be thrown away after use??
Especially because you can get a refillable/rechargeable for like $20.
Regardless I quit a couple years ago because I still don't trust regularly inhaling anything as unregulated and unstudied as juice seems to be.
Probably gonna start using patches again because I'm desperate for something that helps with unmedicated adhd
rip felix
rip steveo
I’m a chemistry nerd not a biology nerd but I find it hard to believe the health concerns of heavy metals really outweigh that of the tar, benzene, and other directly harmful hydrocarbons found in cigarettes.
it's for sure a clickbait title and obviously there is a bunch of other toxic shit in cigs. but i still see people acting like vaping is free and think they need to be disabused of this notion
I agree the vapes aren’t harmless and that needs to be recognized. However I think this type of clickbait to be directly harmful if it convinces someone to use a product that’s actually worse.
But again I’m not super confident on which is worse but I feel the benzene and tar wins in this case.
personal story, was addicted to vapes pretty heavily from age 17 til about 25, only ever took maybe a year off total in that time. Tried quitting many times but always relapsed, recently i had quit in Ramadan but my dumb ass decided to buy a vape one night and after hitting it for an hour i started having severe chest pains similar to what i imagine cardiac arrest feels likes, the next morning the pain was horrible and i couldnt breathe. I was hospitalized for two days and diagnosed with pericarditis.
recently got off the meds after 3 months and feel recovered, but it was incredibly scary and i have not vaped since and never plan to again.
How do y'all speculate this applies to weed carts? Asking for a friend lmao
i'm a big stoner and anecdotally whenever i've gone to the US and got carts, my lungs reject them like nothing else. they feel really nasty