E-cigarettes, vaping, vaping… Terms that get mixed up and that are often detrimental to vaping as we know it! Indeed, the term e-cigarette can in no way refer to heated tobacco just as vaping can not be compared to a vaporization of something other than an e-liquid. And the debate seems present because today we learn that the cases, sometimes fatal, of lung diseases in American users could be linked to the use of cannabis oil and vitamin E oil, two lipid substances dangerous for lungs.
VAPORIZING AN E-LIQUID IS NOT VAPORIZING OIL!
For several days now, vaping has suffered numerous attacks around the world. The media and some government organizations tend to explain that the practice is dangerous, causing panic in the process among vapers and smokers. In fact, five deaths and 450 sick to date. The American health authorities updated on September 6 the growing figures of victims of "vaporization" in the United States.
However, we are in no way talking about the consumption of e-liquid! Because if the brands or the substances involved are not yet known, two points common to a majority of these cases emerge: that of inhalation by vaporization of products containing THC, the active substance of cannabis, and the presence in th - Vitamin E oil liquids, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Clearly, nothing to do with the vape that we know!
« In both cases, it is oily substances", Underlines the professor Bertrand Dautzenberg, tobacco expert, former pulmonologist and president of Paris Sans Tabac. And it's that oily character that 
could be at the origin of pulmonary pathologies: " according to X-rays that I have seen, patients registered in the United States may suffer from lipoid pneumopathies“, An infection of the lungs caused by inhaling lipid substances, according to the specialist. Photos of lung cells from sick vapers engulfed in fat vesicles released by the CDC also support this hypothesis.
If Vitamin E Oil or Cannabis " is not dangerous when ingested in a 'space cake' or burned“, It becomes when it is inhaled.
And for good reason: the vaporization process is not that of combustion but of so-called “high temperature” vaporization. This temperature is still too low to degrade the chemical compounds contained in the liquid, including oil. The vapers therefore inhale an aerosol of the same composition as the initial liquid, including any harmful products: propylene glycol, possibly vegetable glycerin, water, nicotine in variable doses, flavors, and any other substance added to the mixed.
Thus, if the liquid contains oil, the latter is " driven into the lungs by propylene glycol in an emulsion form* and the droplets of oil are deposited in the pulmonary alveoli Says Professor Dautzenberg. " It's like pouring mayonnaise directly into the lungs! He is indignant. Result, " lThe lung becomes white and can no longer perform its respiratory functions"
IN FRANCE, 35 PRODUCTS AUTHORIZED BY ANSES DO NOT CONTAIN OIL!
In the current state of knowledge, the oil trail in e-liquids is only a hypothesis, " but this is the most likely“, Suggests Professor Dautzenberg. Pending more complete results and
as long as the light on these cases has not been made, the CDCs recommend to the vapers not to not to buy these products in the street, to modify them, nor to add substances not envisaged by the manufacturer"
In France, " 35.000 products authorized by ANSES and today sold in stores do not contain oil "Underlines the tobacco specialist, who therefore recommends that users stick to these liquids and respect a simple rule:" no oil in the vape! »
Source : Francetvinfo.fr/
