THE VIDEO SHELF · vaping versus smoking
How Smoking vs Vaping Affects Your Lungs ● You Must See This ! !
A demonstration comparing what a month of vaping versus a month of smoking cigarettes does to the lungs, using a filter to show the residue. It is part of a series of similar experiments.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters send it to people who think vaping is as harmful as smoking, for its graphic comparison.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Chris Notap
- Topic
- vaping versus smoking
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
1000% agree. The whole narrative to non-stop discuss vaping as opposed to smoking is being pushed by the super powerful cigarette companies. Vaping MIGHT be harmful to a person but cigarettes are 100% CONFIRMED to be terrible for humans. Anyone who tries to tell me …
mike10921 on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Popcorn Lung: A Dangerous Risk of Flavored E-Cigarettes (2016)Vaping is way less harmful than smoking. See e.g. the study [0] conducted by Public Health England that concludes vaping is at least 95% (!) less harmful than smoking. See also this video [1] that shows graphically the different impact it has on the lungs. …
rogue7 on Hacker News · 2024-12
In Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
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