Is vaping healthier than smoking regular cigarettes?

 　　First, let’s understand some of the differences between traditional smoking and VAPE from a physical perspective. The purpose of smoking mainly comes down to three parts: looking cool, nicotine, and crushing the flavor capsule.

  　　Traditional smoking means burning tobacco to produce nicotine and tar. Nicotine is what causes addiction, while tar is what causes cancer. As for flavor capsules, there is currently not much research on them, though some people say they may cause ED.   　　E-cigarettes work by heating Juice (which contains nicotine and flavorings) into vapor. As for whether the flavorings are carcinogenic, there are currently no authoritative statistics available.   　　At present, Britain’s Department of Health says e-cigarettes are only about 5% as harmful as traditional cigarettes. A professor surnamed R at the University of Louisville said that the health effects of nicotine itself are not much different from those of caffeine. Oxford Journals published an article saying that e-cigarettes could reduce smoking-related deaths by 21%. A professor surnamed N at USC in Southern California, when discussing whether Juice is harmful to the human body, said that it is still difficult to confirm whether Juice causes long-term health damage. However, some commonly used food-grade flavorings may be perfectly fine when consumed, but could have serious health consequences once turned into smoke or vapor.   　　A YouTube user also conducted an experiment using cotton with the same amount of smoke. The white sample below is from VAPE, and the yellow one is from traditional cigarettes. The color difference is obvious. But who can say that white necessarily means healthier?   　　To answer the trendy guy’s earlier question about why VAPE is still so hard to buy on the market and why there are so few options in supermarkets and convenience stores: it’s because these products are still too new. At present, many domestic media outlets do not even use e-cigarettes, yet they shout online every day that e-cigarettes are harmful, mostly based on speculation and estimates. However, the e-cigarette industry also still lacks very detailed industry standards or relevant legislation. Many tobacco manufacturers keep saying that e-cigarettes are harmful to health, and of course, you know why—tobacco is a hugely profitable business, and tobacco manufacturers certainly do not want to lose their existing market.