Certainly less damaging but you seriously need to look at what you are putting into your body. This stuff is toxic. I have a friend who uses these and he gets the eLiquid out of the pound shop at 2 for £1, the think's he's getting a good deal. What is the guy getting for 50p a shot?
12. It's Toxic
Everything has a toxicity rating sure, the question is whether it's toxic enough to cause harm to human life. There's been plenty of studies on PG since the 1940's and generally it's considered harmless (even to monkeys and rats they tested on), VG has been studied less but anecdotal evidence also seems to point to it being relatively harmless.
Of course the issue here is there's no long term study on the effects of inhaling PG and VG at various saturation levels and temperatures. That doesn't mean it's toxic or it's destroying your lungs, it means we simply do not know. As an e-cigerette user it's up to you to decide whether you wish to take that risk, I believe that any long term study will conclude it to be near harmless based on what i've read (and the recommendations it's receieved from people with much more knowledge on the subject than me) so i've made the decision to take that risk.
Flavouring is where many unknowns come into effect as theres so many of them. Most (if not all) use food grade flavourings, so once again we make the assumption that they will probably be harmless based on what evidence we do have, but we don't yet know for sure.
Ultimately however vaping is a new thing and we simply do not know 100% what the long term effects will be. It may be perfectly safe, or it may cause issues in later life. If you're not prepared to take that risk then don't do it, but making claims that aren't backed up in scientific evidence are just ignorant.
13. 50p a bottle in the pound shop must be full of nasties!
Once again this just comes from lack of research and ignorance, i don't expect everyone to go out and spend their time reading up on the subject if it doesn't interest them, but at the same time why make a comment on something you know very little about.
To start with, eliquid is dirt cheap to make. 5 litres of unflavoured liquid would set me back £20. Flavouring is where costs get added as its the most expensive part, but using a cheap and basic flavour you could probably flavour that 5 litres for around £100. Lets say the entire 5 litres with bottles e.c.t. comes to £150 for 500 x 10ml bottles (the ones you see in most shops). At 50p a throw thats a £100 profit.
That's based on some bedroom mixer buying in low quantity from suppliers many links down the chain. Add in economies of scale (buying more of the product for cheaper, handling larger amounts means you can go further up the chain or even directly to source which is cheaper still) and it makes good business sense.
I'm not saying these pound shop liquids are amazing. There low quality and mass produced, but low quality here doesn't mean it's worse for your health than a bottle of premium £10 stuff, it just means your not going to get as much flavour from it (they'll mix at lower percentages than i personally like) and the flavors are going to be less complex, often single flavours (whereas I prefer something with multiple flavours in it).
If your friend likes the pound shop stuff then good for him and anyone else. There's no reason to assume it's been cut with bleach. It's not too my personal taste but neither are asda smart price beans or aldi's own squash, doesn't mean they are bad for you though.
This is not too say there aren't bad producers that put things in their liquid they shouldn't, but generally speaking it makes no financial sense to do so. The most financially beneficial "knock off" liquid would either be plain water (would only con new vapers) or unflavoured juice with no nicotine (which isn't going to cause you any ill effects, it's just a con), anything else you do is more expensive than the real thing anyway
