As we all know, vaping has become more and more popular and it even became a necessity in people’s life while not much of the vapers really know the truth of vaping. Today, I am going to give a detailed introduction of the vaping and let you get closer to the vaping world. Vaping’s a hot topic these days. It has ignited one of the biggest debates in public health history, and has found its way into just about every newspaper and TV news show.

There are at least 10 million Americans who vape currently, and more than two million of them no longer smoke cigarettes at all. Worldwide the number is harder to be sure about, but there are likely to be 30 million or more vapers. The story of vaping is an interesting one. A perfect example of true free-market capitalism, or a consumer response to a health crisis that government intervention hasn’t solved, or a user-driven technological revolution. It might be all three of those things!

As the popularity of vaping has skyrocketed, smoking has declined more quickly than anyone could have imagined. But with more visibility also comes public doubt and fear. It’s an easy target for anyone looking to capitalize on a good old-fashioned moral panic. Some vapor products look like cigarettes (usually called “cigalikes”), and some are larger. Many people choose a cigalike first because they’re often found in the same stores where cigarettes are sold, they look familiar, and they have a fairly low initial cost.

The term electronic cigarette (or e-cigarette, or e-cig) doesn’t necessarily refer specifically to the small cigalikes, although some people use it that way. E-cigarette can refer to any vaping device. Other common names are personal vaporizer (sometimes shortened to PV), vape, or mod. The term mod originates from the early users who modified their primitive e-cigs to work better, or modifed other products (like flashlights and laser pointers) to work as vapes. Big or small, disposable or refillable, e-cigarettes do essentially the same thing.

Vaping means different things to different people. For smokers who have spent years desperately trying to find a way to quit cigarettes, vaping can be a life-improving or even life-saving miracle. For some in public health — especially the rabid anti-nicotine zealots in the tobacco control field — e-cigs are a threat to a carefully constructed status quo. For them, enjoying nicotine without health consequences is like sinning without the threat of hell.

We call the users of e-cigarettes vapers. Vapers discovered early on that using sweet flavors like candy and fruit worked well to distance them from the experience of burning tobacco. So despite the politicians screaming that vaping flavors are a tobacco industry plot to addict children, the truth is that every vaper likes delicious flavors. I’m 57 and I’m vaping lemon cake right now. It’s good too!

Most vapers are former or current smokers — some are still trying to quit, and others use e-cigarettes to get the nicotine they like when it’s inconvenient to smoke. There are some vapers who have never smoked, but they represent a tiny percentage of the vaping population. We know from survey data that as vaping has grown in recent years, smoking has declined to record lows. And despite the claims that vaping is a gateway to smoking for teens, youth smoking rates have fallen even more rapidly than adult rates since the advent of vaping.

Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at Boston University, says that “as vaping has become more popular among youth, it has displaced cigarette smoking and contributed towards the de-normalization of cigarette smoking.” Vaping doesn’t cause the physical harms of smoking because it doesn’t involve combustion. Despite how they may look to non-smokers, smoking and vaping are vastly different. When you smoke a cigarette, you’re lighting dead plant material on fire and inhaling the smoke. Breathing smoke — any kind of smoke — is dangerous.

The products of combustion are devastating to the lungs and cardiovascular system. Thousands of chemicals and compounds are inhaled, including more than 70 that are known carcinogens. In addition to cancer risk, smoking can cause massive damage to the heart and circulatory system, leading to heart disease, and possibly causing heart attack and stroke. There is also damage to the lungs, which can cause emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

As far as we can tell, vaping causes none of those things. There may be some risks from vaping (which we have looked at in more detail before), but so far no evidence of serious health danger has emerged. Studying all the available scientific literature on vaping, the Royal College of Physicians concluded last year that vaping is “unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco.”

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