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@fauxpause
There are three concerns here.
It was thought early on that vaping was "safer than smoking"
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs
Second, the "flavoring" is an unregulated irritant being ingested into already damaged lungs.

Finally, if he is buying in a vape shop as opposed to a regulated dispensary, and using the vape "at will" he doesn't really know how much THC he is getting

If he needs THC to enhance pain control, there are other ways to do it - gummies and other injestables.

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@sueinmn I mean technically the study's still say vaping is slightly better than smoking just not as much as they used to believe they're now saying it's 9 times better rather than 95% better like they used to say.

Also all those of vape related deaths that caused that mass hysteria a few years ago were from Black market THC vape carts that were laced with vitamin e acetate and hexane fuel that came from the Chinese Black market to the US Black market overseas and not from store-bought vaporizers.

And this is actually confirmed by the people that actually studied those cases which is both the FDA and the CDC also got involved.

That being said, vaping regulated vaporizers isn't risk free but it still has a lower risk of lung cancer, a lower risk of heart disease, and a lower risk of stroke not to mention that E-liquid has less of the popcorn lung chemical Diacetyl than cigarettes does.

One cigarette contains anywhere from 300 micrograms to 430 micrograms of Diacetyl whereas one disposable vaporizer has 9 micrograms Diacetyl on average so that whole popcorn lung argument is completely loaded.

That being said all the studies on vaping are done on nicotine vaporizers so I can't say the same for THC vapes.