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Melatonin you breathe in. Vitamins in a vape. Somebody in marketing earned their bonus.

The ABC looked at 'wellness' vapes sold as nicotine-free, with caffeine, melatonin, vitamins and essential oils. The experts' point: safe to swallow isn't the same as safe to inhale. In 2019, thousands of people in the US were hospitalised with lung disease after using cannabis vapes. Vitamin E acetate, safe in supplements, caused lung inflammation.

A University of Birmingham respiratory scientist put it plainly. There's no benign version of an e-cigarette or a wellness vape.

I make tinctures, love. I know what oils are for. Breathing them through a hot coil isn't on my list. Who signed off on calling it wellness?

Talk to your GP or health professional about your own body.

Source: ABC News, 2023-10-05

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