The Verge just put up a video on vapings health effects

Wrote a long comment, hope that at least one person reads it.

First of all, vape devices use the same 18650 battery cell as laptops. Are you afraid of your precious MacBook exploding? Most of the incidents that you cherry-picked in this video happened mostly because of poor battery safety - shorting them by just throwing them in your pockets with keys and other conductive stuff, or using an unregulated device without any knowledge. If you use a good Samsung or LG cell, in a regulated (95% of the market) device and keep your spare batteries in a plastic case, you are safe.

2) using Juul as the benchmark to all vapes is like using Renault Clio as a benchmark to all cars.

3) FDA is a corrupt institution with a heavy lobby from both pharma and tobacco businesses to keep their very, very threatening competition, vaping, less relevant or even banned. I have much more trust in British government and NHS than I do in FDA.

4) "Cigarettes are a really low bar for 'healthy'". Anything that gets people off cigarettes is much better than smoking, and e-cigarettes are tools for quitting first.

5) Cool or not cool, that should not be a factor for an adult - leave caring what other people think of you in high school. Each smoker that doesn't switch to vaping because of this stigma is a person who has died of a preventable disease just because publications like you told him that it's 'uncool'. Overall, you didn't even present a single good point with reputable evidence on why vaping is dangerous or harmful, and I hope that nobody takes this video seriously.

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