Thread by @ChaunceyGardner

REMINDER
If nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes") are, in fact, safer than smoking, and help smokers quit, they are (obviously) profoundly different from recreational drugs like alcohol, caffeine & cannabis.

So, what if we just ask ex-smokers who vape how they're doing?

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Among ex-smokers who quit by switching to nicotine vapes, 93% say their health improved. 62% say "improved dramatically." The 5% who said "no change" said "I was healthy to begin with."

Healthier. This is so different from daily screaming headlines.

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Among ex-smokers who quit by switching to nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes"), 90% say they now have fewer and less sever lung infections. We're healthier. Does no one care?

Confirmed by these peer-reviewed studies.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
omicsonline.org/open-access/ch…

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Among ex-smokers with #COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), 93% say their lung health has improved.

This too is confirmed by peer-reviewed studies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30197510

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Among ex-smokers who were previously diagnosed with asthma, almost 9 in 10 (87%) say their asthma symptoms improved. 48% say "I no longer need an inhaler."

Confirmed by peer-reviewed studies.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31960343
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27011045
mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/5…

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My father died, gasping for breath. That is not a good way to go. He died from #COPD after smoking 2 packs a day most of his life. I smoked, and quit with #SaferNicotine vapes. Now, almost every day, I'm accused of working for big tobacco. I hate big tobacco (see above).

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FACT: Smoking kills the cilia in your lungs. Healthy cilia remove debris, dust, particulates, bacteria, fungal spores, gunk.

Lung cilia recover to never-smoker levels after smokers switch to nicotine vaping. #DealWithIt
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…