Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Tanoc 872 days ago
Is that really a fair comparison though, considering the digestive system is far more robust and is supposed to be self-cleaning? Lungs can't even deal with dust kicked up by the weather as they'll fill with mucus and reduce your breathing capacity, meanwhile a stomach can process and eject even sand. I'd worry about things that challenge the delicate processes of the lungs before anything that challenges my digestive tract.
1 comments

I don't think that your lungs are permanently coated in vape goo. Eventually your lungs will also clean themselves out.

It's not supposed to be a literal like-for-like comparison, more an illustration that people knowingly put things inside themselves that do them harm.