Formaldehyde is a carcinogen, So we don't vape it.
Formaldehyde is also something made in you're body (anytime you eat fruits or veggies) and blown out of proportion to the point you might as well say you'll die if you get within 100ft of a running car engine due to the carcinogens it produces.
- It's in the environment all around you being inhaled by you all the time. It is used in the production of fabic, wood laminates, and plastic and these leach it into the air around you years after production. The plastic in your car? Living room couch? Bedroom rug or hardwood floor? Your new shirt? All releasing it into the air. While most is released in the first year, it can take up to 10 years for it all to dissipate.
- You ingest it anytime you take medicine as it is used in the coating of pills and is an ingredient in capsules.
- All known cases of cancer from formaldehyde were people working in factorys who deal with industrial quantities of it over extended periods of time (years).
- Inhaled formaldehyde has no effect on the blood stream unless you get into very high levels (ie, the factory workers) because your body metabolizes it when it comes into contact with the lining of your mouth, throat, and lungs.
can't find the article right now detailing all this and the experiment that shows this, so damn hard to find truthful stuff anymore.
ie, studies done before vaping or when it was new as things took a 180 with ridiculous scare tactics the min vaping became popular.
And yes, they are just scare tactics, there are many things that can be harmful under certain circumstances but you just don't know about them because there is no reason to blow them out of proportion. Do you like the smell of ceder? Did you know that smell is caused by a vary harmful chemical that breaks down your lung tissue and causes asthma? Ceder trees produce the chemical to deter bugs, it's basically an insecticide. Bet you anything that news outlets would be advertising this if all vaping devices were made of ceder. However they wouldn't mention that all asthma cases have been with people in lumber mills that process ceder. So, like formaldehyde, just workers being subjected to very high levels over extended periods of time. It's perfectly safe at the levels consumers experience it.