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What is the thing that people are vaping? See detail.

Asked by flo (13313points) December 4th, 2019

It is called ”e cigarette”, but it’s not tobacco related, Added:except for the nicotine (the kind with nicotine). So what is the item being vaped?
I went here:
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/e-cigarette.html
but it just gives me the short form, “e-cigs”

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Patty_Melt's avatar

As I understand it, there are different kinds, including cannabis. There is a certain element found in many or most which is causing the health dangers.

Vignette's avatar

Vaping is the term for super heating a liquid substance to the boiling point of the liquid and breathing in the vapors at the same time inhaling the chemicals of the desired product you want to vape. The early vapers were developed to in a safer manner inhale nicotine vapor over the inhalation of burning tobacco cigarettes. In an effort to make it more appealing they developed flavored vaping liquids and that is where it kind of stands today. Vaping is also used to inhale marijuana. @Susan_975 inferred getting cancer from popcorn and I am assuming she was referring to how people who breathe in the vapors from popping popcorn oil were determined to suffer cancer from the deemed toxic smoke from the popcorn oil vapors. Which segues into the more recent news reports that people are dying from vaping e-cigs. IMHO it is the chemicals of the burning oils that is the culprit not the nicotine or pot chemicals. I am not a chemist but I do know that burning oils can be toxic so IMHO directly inhaling burnt oil vape smoke cannot be good for you.

flo's avatar

Why doesn’t the link from CDC have the key word/s in the title?

“For the Public”
“What You Need to Know”

“Symptoms of Lung Injury Reported by Some Patients in This Outbreak”

Tropical_Willie's avatar

^^^^ @flo ^^^^^ Ask the CDC why they did it?

I don’t anyone on here is connected to CDC.

flo's avatar

@Patty_Melt, @Caravanfan and @Vignette What is the product called.
@rebbel I don’t think it’s called “oil”, if I ask for oil I’ll get the question “Olive oil, or Canola oil or…what kind of oil?” Edited for typo.

rebbel's avatar

@flo Here they call it oil (Greece).
They ask for it in the vape shop though.
I guess it depends where you ask for it.

flo's avatar

@rebbel “Ride”, “wheels”, ...slang words for car. But I’m not looking for slang words.

rebbel's avatar

Not slang, it’s the word.
It’s printed on the bottles.
Oil.

SergeantQueen's avatar

this site calls it an E-liquid or E-juice

flo's avatar

Aerosol for example is https://tinyurl.com/sc7t4rb.

flo's avatar

E-liquid. The thing that’s being inhaled has electricity in it?

SergeantQueen's avatar

That is what the site said @flo

And Yes, the vape itself is electronic. No, the liquid is not electronic, it’s a liquid. It’s called E-liquid/E-Juice because it goes in the electronic machine. People are vaping a combinations of chemicals and other things and Aerosol is probably in it. It’s just liquid chemicals that get turned to vapor basically.

flo's avatar

@SergeantQueen Re. ”No, the liquid is not electronic, it’s a liquid.” I think that’s the whole point of the OP.

flo's avatar

…@SergeantQueen Also aerosol is intake through the nose isn’t it?

SergeantQueen's avatar

@flo your questions has already been answered

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