If we really talk about being harmless, perhaps the recently popular herbal vapes have less harm. The raw materials are basically herbal ingredients, and the principles of traditional Chinese medicine are added. They focus on the concept of health preservation and wellness. There are many health-preserving products in terms of raw materials, such as ginseng, dried tangerine peel, light bamboo, Sichuan oyster shell, loquat, etc. Therefore, this kind of e-cigarette basically has no harm.
But there’s no need to smoke this kind of e-cigarette anymore. If you want to smoke an e-cigarette, it’s definitely to replace cigarettes. This herbal aerosol doesn’t contain nicotine, so it doesn’t help smokers relieve their addiction. Then why smoke it?
Of course, we still don’t know if this thing poses no harm at all, because this still requires professional researchers to conduct experiments. It can only be said that from the perspective of its composition, its harm is indeed relatively small.
However, when people choose e-cigarettes instead of regular cigarettes, it is inherently a case of choosing the lesser of two evils. The harm of e-cigarettes to the body is not only reflected in nicotine but also in the substances released by various additives at high temperatures. So, could this situation also occur with herbal atomization? This is unknown.