And so we come to arguably our strangest piece of vaping info: “wellness vaping.” As The Guardian reports, some companies have already moved beyond questions of e-cigarette safety to say that e-cigarettes are a type of holistic health product, i.e., “nutritional supplement diffusers.” Doses of vitamin B12, melatonin, essential oils, companies with names like Inhale Health and Nutriair, proclamations like (per the FDA) “fight off tumors,” “organic asthma remedy, ADHD remedy, dementia treatment,” “helps prevent a type of anemia,” “treatment against anxiety and depression:” Now customers have to sift through all such disingenuous snake oil tactics. Is that an unfair statement? Not according to the FDA, who bluntly says: “These claims are unproven, and the products may be ineffective, a waste of money, unsafe, and may prevent or delay you from seeking an appropriate diagnosis and treatment from a health care professional.”
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The problem, as always, rests in untested ingredients. “Wellness vaping” options are non-nicotine in nature, which as The Guardian explains means that they include the same potentially harmful chemicals we mentioned before, like propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin. Irfan Rahman, Professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center, plainly says in The Guardian, “Lungs are meant for oxygen and not for these complex chemicals.” Similarly, Dr Gregory Ratti, a pulmonologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, says, “If those are going into the lungs that is worrisome.” All in all: Think twice before inhaling weird chemicals into your lungs.
