You can instantly tell someone smokes cigarettes when you enter their house for the first time – there is a faint ting of nicotine in the air, the white wall paint has a faint shade of yellow and the furnishings in the space look like they were affected with a nicotine smoke bomb.
If you smoke cigarettes, you would be fully aware of just how badly cigarette smoke affects your surroundings. In addition to harming the people around you through passive smoking, the chemicals in cigarette smoke also harm the environment, the furnishings in your home, and its walls. Due to this pertaining fact associated with cigarette smoke, an unlikely assumption has emerged among people that smoke that arises from vaping also damages your home and its furnishings, which is not true in the slightest.
What causes stains and damage to furnishings?
If you are an avid vaper and a collector of quality art pieces, your concern as to whether or not vaping can affect your expensive art pieces is valid, and to remove all doubt in your mind regarding the same, you first need to understand what causes walls and furnishings to stain in the first place.
Walls and furnishings get stained from cigarette smoke due to the nicotine present in them. This concept is called nicotine staining, and in addition to your home, this smoke can also stain your clothes, teeth and fingernails, and lips. Nicotine stains caused due to cigarette smoke are difficult to clean and stubborn, and may as well leave what they stain damaged forever.
Another chemical present in cigarette smoke is tar, which also plays a significant role in staining its surroundings after combustion. The staining caused by nicotine and tar is so bad that you would begin to think they are almost taking revenge from a smoker for combusting them.
What makes vaping different?
In contrast to cigarettes, the smoke arising from vapes does not stain your home, its furnishings, or your art. It doesn’t even affect your teeth, fingernails, or lips. The main reason behind this is that while vapes also contain nicotine, the nicotine in vapes is not combusted and rather is vaporized. This creates a big difference between the nicotine in cigarette smoke and that in vaping vapors.
Another reason why smoke from vaping doesn’t affect home furnishings or pieces of art is that while some e-liquids used in vaping do not contain nicotine at all, those which do have it in very small quantities. There is no ash with vaping due to no combustion which makes its harmlessness in terms of staining very evident.
Additionally, when you smoke a vape, the nicotine present in the e-liquid is absorbed in your body, whereas the nicotine arising from cigarette smoke is high in quantity and hence while it is absorbed in the smoker’s body it also makes its way out with the smoke and damages its surroundings. The vapor that arises from vapes also doesn’t include any of the harmful chemicals and tar that conventional cigarette smoke does, and hence the vapor doesn’t really affect your home or precious art pieces at all.
Bottom line: Does vaping affect your art and home walls?
In a nutshell, vaping smoke does not affect its surroundings and the walls in your home. While vaping may leave some residue on its furnishings, this residue is none or too little and can take decades before it accumulates enough to eventually make a difference. However, a drawback associated with vaping is that since it features vapors instead of smoke, the vapors are likely to hold onto the dust already present in your room and sort of stick it down. Anyhow, you need not worry as this combination of vapor and dust can simply be wiped off from surfaces using a wet dishcloth.
For individuals hoping to minimize even the little effect that vapor from vaping has, a good idea would be to use e-liquids that do not contain nicotine at all and to use vapes that allow users to control the amount of vapor arising from them. Vapers can also make it a point to also use their vape in certain areas of their home, and try to clean their surfaces often to not allow any dust residue to settle down along with the vapors.
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