Side Note

Cinnamon vape juice is for real bad boys only

Most (okay, all) vape juices are not great, but those in the cinnamon flavor family take the cake when it comes to overall awfulness.New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill points to cinnamon as a top contender for worst vape juice.

Cinnamon e-cigs tend to get their characteristic flavor from the organic compound cinnamaldehyde, which is an unsaturated aldehyde that occurs naturally in cinnamon trees and the like. Aldehydes are also found in cigarette smoke, and pretty much serve to mess up your lungs’ ability to rid themselves of all the stupid stuff you inhale (like, well, cigarette smoke).

It’s like the cinnamon challenge, only somehow more lame.

The UNC researchers tested whether the aldehydes present in cinnamon vape juice had the same effect on people’s lungs as they aldehydes in cigarettes; lo and behold, they did. The study found that cinnamon-scented clouds would rapidly suppress ciliary beating — which is one of the ways that the body pushes gunk out of your lungs — for about an hour. Researchers concluded that the e-cig juice could have an effect on cinnamonophiles’ overall health, and noted that “inhalational exposures of cinnamaldehyde may increase the risk of respiratory infections in e-cigarette users.”

It’s worth noting that an increased risk of respiratory infections is far from a cinnamaldehyde-only problem though. According to recent study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, everyone living the vape life runs a higher risk of catching pneumonia. Likewise, the contents of vape juice are not the only risk; metals in the heating coil of a vape can also aerosolize and end up in lungs. All this said, the dose makes the poison.

Vape or die, brah

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