Some of the Biggest Vaping Misconceptions

When talking to people who know little to nothing about the practice of vaping, you’re likely going to run into some fallacies and misconceptions that are, for various reasons, widely held in the public.

Let’s take a look at a few.

It’s been some time since we last published an installment in our serious about the biggest vaping myths. Between both of those pieces, we covered most of the major myths involved with vaping and electronic cigarette usage – that they’re full of poison, that vape companies are purposefully targeting children by making fun flavors, etc. Basically, all the ones you’ve heard time and time again that have been proven false.

For this session, let’s get into some of the lesser known or perhaps less common myths, but ones that definitely still exist for a variety of reasons.

* E-cigs are very likely to explode at random and cause serious harm to the user.

Like many myths and misconceptions in the world, this one has its roots in real life events and facts, but have snowballed into a big ball of fallacy.

Let’s get the negatives out of the way first – yes, there have been numerous cases of e-cigs exploding and injuring the user. We, nor anybody else, should try to deny that as you will only look foolish and come off as so biased that your opinions should be taken with a large grain of salt.

But getting beyond the fact that electronic cigarette explosions do happen from time to time (albeit extremely rarely when you consider how many people vape around the world and how often they puff), let’s instead look at WHY they happen. Very often, as you will see in any of the links you come across when finding a story about an e-cig exploding, it’s the case of using a charging device other than the one supplied by the manufacturer. In our world of omnipresent cell phones and USB devices, we’re conditioned to be able to think that any device can be charged with any charger, so long as the connection fits.

That is absolutely NOT the case with electronic cigarettes, as Mother Jones correctly points out:

“Specifically, it’s e-cigarettes’ lithium-ion batteries that combust. These batteries are also found in laptops and cellphones. But with e-cigarettes, the batteries are especially prone to overheating because smokers use incompatible chargers, overcharge the e-cigarettes, or don’t take sufficient safety precautions. For example, many e-cigarettes are made to plug into a USB port, which smokers may take to mean the devices can be safely charged with a computer or iPad charger. But if left too long in a common USB port, some e-cigarette batteries can fry.”

If you follow the manufacturer’s directions to the letter, use ONLY the approved supplied charger, and carefully monitor your charging, you will be cutting down the likelihood of your e-cig overheating or exploding to a near impossibility.

* Any health official against e-cigs has done their research and has no ulterior motives.

We covered this a bit in one of our previous news round-up articles (which you can read here), but there’s a growing number of people who are convinced that the sheer amount of misinformation and mud being slung at vapers and the vaping industry in general is the result of a dedicated smear campaign.

We’ll keep this brief, but it is fairly concerning how many officials will say in one breath that the long-term effects of using electronic cigarettes aren’t known yet (which we would agree with), but in the other follow it up with downright fallacious statements like vaping is just as bad or worse than smoking. We think the safety of vaping over smoking in terms of your health has been shown conclusively of late, but that’s a different conversation.

The conversation here is more of a question: Is there a concerted effort by some to disparage vaping and spread falsehoods? That’s the conceit of a new film entitled “A Billion Lives” (named after the amount of people estimated by the World Health Organization to die from smoking in this century). We can’t say for sure one way or another if it’s true or not, but do yourself a favor and watch the trailer. Then head to the website and decide for yourself:

* Vaping is more expensive than traditional tobacco smoking.

This, as you might imagine, will depend heavily upon your personal usage. Anyone here who’s ever been a smoker has most likely gone through times in their lives where they smoke more often than others. And smokers tend to swim in circles (at bars or sharing a smoke break at work), so you’ve likely been around those who smoke far more or far less than you do.

Even so, using the very rough average of a single pack of day as Nerd Wallet did recently, the average American smoker spends about $2,569 per year.

With vaping you have two options – disposables and renewables. While we aren’t here to tell you how to vape (okay, maybe we are), but we’d strongly recommend against disposables. Not only do you have little to no options for customization, but they are obviously not the most environmentally friendly option.

And besides all that, they are the more expensive option when it comes to cost, averaging about $1,387 per year. Renewables (like starter kits as well as mods and rebuildables) are reusable, and while the initial investment can be somewhat steep, you’re essentially only paying for e-juice as you go. For the same hypothetical pack-a-day smoker, the average cost in yearly e-juice is only $605.

So whether you’re using disposables or renewables, vaping is likely significantly cheaper than smoking.

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