Technically true but there's barely any health risks from vaped nicotine. The number of serious injuries are in the low thousands (total, not per year) and are mostly associated with THC vapes of questionable origin.
So does caffeine.
>Another example is a breathless media article “Children Exposed to Nicotine in Utero Have Lower Reading Scores” on Cho et al 2012: here we can’t blame the media or Wikipedia editors because the paper itself (a longitudinal correlational study) has “nicotine” in its title and abstract (a total of 8 times), though the abstract quietly mentions it is actually a study of “maternal smoking”
The non nicotine components of vaping are also harmful. Smoke machines operating on similar principles are a known workplace safety hazard. It’s likely decades of inflammation from vaping would present it’s own unique hazards.
From that perspective patches and vaping are probably closer to a pill than coffee and as such represent increased risks over the nicotine it’s self.
I've never smoked a cigarette or vaped in my life. The dose required to alleviate my symptoms is so low (6~8mg a day) that addiction is basically non-existent. I don't take it on weekend unless I'm working and am totally fine.
I get salty when people demonize nicotine, it's made my life tolerable.
Still, the symptoms that get grouped together as ADHD are so diverse that I could see it helping people. Biggest issue is probably relative addictiveness, since after 15 years of adderall use I feel absolutely no desire to take it on weekends or vacation, and that's probably not totally the same for nicotine.
That doesn't sound like a very low dose for a non-smoker? While addiction to gum is very unlikely, the probability of developing tolerance is high. How long have you been using this dosage?
Nicotine patches are probably a less addictive option than gum, but gum itself is much less addictive than smoking.
Heard that for a century from tobacco companies. I guess we will see after 50 years of vaping.
What possible harm could come from chronically inhaling a viscous agent into our lungs?
These are asthmatics, reminder. If propylene glycol was a problem for lungs, we would know.
Ventolin does not use propylene glycol: https://www.drugs.com/pro/ventolin.html
Airomir did not.
Maxair? Nope: https://www.drugs.com/pro/maxair-autohaler.html
Even pro-vape sites recognize that this is BS.
> There is one study looking at the potential to use PG as a carrier for an inhaled medicine (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18158714) and another which mentions that PG or ethanol may be used as a cosolvent (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12425745) in nebulizers, but no evidence presented of an asthma inhaler or nebulizer that is actually used today containing PG.
There's also a huge difference between 3-4 puffs a day of a smaller amount, than chronic hundreds of puffs a day with vapes.
They routinely use propylene glycol: you're wrong, I'm right. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12425745/
Severe asthmatics will be on a nebulizer five or ten minutes at a time, several times a day. Far higher volume than the most committed vaper.