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In reply to the discussion: People who want to ban e-cigs are the useful idiots of Big Tobacco [View all]yellowcanine
(36,809 posts)There are in house industry studies and there are independent peer reviewed scientific studies. If you fail to provide a citation my assumption is that it is more likely to be the former than the latter. And this reasoning is clearly misleading if not outright false.
"It is apparent that the tiny amount of nicotine exhaled by the user is quickly diluted by mixing with the ambient air. As a result, bystanders are not exposed to nicotine at all."
Diluted does not = zero, at least not in all circumstances. It depends on how far the bystanders are away, how much air movement and mixing is going on, and how much vaping is going on (how many people, how vigorous?). Not to mention that nicotine may not be the only issue - there are carriers, flavor compounds, etc. The wording of this study smacks of an industry study to me.