Vapouround magazine Special Issue 03 | Page 52

F E AT U R E But comparing our results to a baseline of Zero, then we also have problems. This is where the fear mongering and bull crap tactics “what about the children” are hatched! This is such a loosely guided measurement system. But the chemicals and compounds we are measuring have been made out to strike fear in the souls of the every mother swaddling a baby and raising a teenager. It’s hard to defend ingredients when there is no true bar of acceptability. One thing we know for sure: The more heat applied, the more decomposition takes place. This brings us to the only control factor outside of ingredient contribution that we have. Resistance. The hotter you run your coils, the more decomposition takes place, that is before even considering the Catalyst effect which is basically the introduction of two chemicals which makes an environment that breeds other chemicals. So what is safe and what is not? Well I suppose that is what we are trying to determine. We have got a ball park idea that certain chemicals should and can be avoided, such as, arsenic. Yeah we shouldn’t be creating or adding that knowledgeably. Acrolein, Ethylene glycol, Diacetyl, Diethylene glycol, sure these ones can be actively avoided for the most part. But this: Preservatives liable to release formaldehyde… this is a crap ton harder, and not even in direct context to what they are outlying. With or without preservatives, the actual creation of formaldehyde in our products is a result of many factors. As it is being used as the biggest defense against our product right now, as was Diacetyl a bit back it is this one reasoning that makes it hard to establish a guideline. When our products are being tested, the method in which they are being tested can create those negative results. Dry puffs and poorly timed intervals for inhalation techniques, tanks that haven’t been tested on they own for a baseline of data to remove from the liquid data itself, as well as at what point in the testing these compounds are being measured for… All of this affects results. Hence a standard method needs to be made. But comparatively to our new designation as a tobacco product, we are nothing like our parent products. No matter what anyone tells you, we can say without hesitation, that the results produced from this round of TPD are nowhere near those negative results from cigarettes. I have seen thousands of results, for both products and I can attest to that. But unsafe decomposition in this arena is usually created by unsafe heat levels not actually required to use the product in a normal capacity. Cloud chasers and tricksters choose a different path, but keeping your heating device for vaping products at lower temperatures can curb many of those negative chemical decompositions. In this case Resistance Is Futile. RESISTANCE 52 VAPOUROUND MAGAZINE USA