Well &quot;Turps&quot; is coming from Turpentine <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Turpentine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Turpentine</a> they distill them in a very similar fashion alpha-pinene, nerolidol and beta-caryophyllene are known to have some adverse health effects alpha-pinene is especially nasty.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t the synthesis there shouldn&#x27;t be a difference in the effects of a compounds such as aldehydes based on if you distill them or synthesize them , if anything synthesized compounds have much higher purity levels than distilled ones.<p>The problem is understanding the effects of individual compounds the cumulative effect of multiple compounds (in any given combination and ratio) as well as their long and short term effects.<p>Add to that added complexity of different delivery mechanisms not all vaporizers are the same they operate on different principals, power levels and use different materials.<p>All this can make accurate measurement very difficult and a very long term project, this is now compounded by the fact that &quot;vaping&quot; is a multi-dollar industry and behind it there is even a bigger industry which is the food flavoring one which for a long time has enjoyed the &quot;GRAS&quot; classification of it&#x27;s products which barely holds water at the common ways of ingestion and amounts and most likely will utterly fall apart if you look at it too deeply.<p>There&#x27;s also some insane negative feedback from the vaping community it self calling it a conspiracy funded by big tobacco (which is funny considering that big tobacco owns all the big ecig brands).<p>I always stated before that vaping is most likely &quot;safer&quot; especially on short term than smoking 1-2 packs a day, but I always suspected that it can be just as bad if not worse due to completely different mechanisms.<p>If you vape for say 6-12 months just to help yourself quit smoking it&#x27;s probably &quot;worth&quot; the risk, if you going to end up chugging 30ml of juice a day you are not going to enjoy the results.<p>Heck even if you breath water vapor all day it won&#x27;t be good for you, there is no way in hell that breathing in &quot;hot&quot; vapor can be good, may types of cancer especially throat and mouth cancer have been connected just to that the intake of hot or warm air rather than the actual chemical compounds in it.
But people are keep buying some crazy 200 watt&#x27;s ecigs and sucking on them like it&#x27;s their mum&#x27;s tit when you are spending 200W of energy it has to go some where at least some of that energy is deposited into the soft tissue of your mouth, throat and lungs and that can&#x27;t be good no matter what else is in there.