The simple and straightforward answer is no, vape does not stick to your clothes. Unlike smoking, which involves burning tobacco and producing strong-smelling smoke, vapours from your e-cigarette do not stick to your clothes if you vape casually and out in the open.
No, vaping doesn't leave behind the stale smell that smoking cigarettes does. Although vaping isn't odourless, the scent won't linger on your clothes or make your house stink.
Generally, in enclosed areas, the smell can last up to 10-15 minutes if you are the only vaping in the room. However, in public spaces, the odor will linger for a couple of seconds and dissipate.
This heated fluid creates a vapor made up of tiny droplets that looks like cigarette smoke. Just like tobacco smoke, e-cigarette vapor sticks to clothes, furniture, and other surfaces creating thirdhand smoke. Research has found nicotine residue from e-cigarettes on indoor surfaces days after vaping had stopped.
Parents can sometimes find evidence of vaping through smell, but the aroma of vaping can be harder to detect than the smell of cigarettes. The vapor does not stink like smoke. The smell depends on the flavor. It usually smells like something that would taste good.
Does vaping inside leave a long-lasting smell? Likewise, though some people may notice that vaping inside leaves a slight odour, this is much less noticeable than that of traditional cigarettes smoke. Again, this can be reduced by ensuring good ventilation throughout your home.
Vaping indoors leads to the deposit of aerosol residue on surfaces, in much the same way as smoking indoors leads to the deposit of tobacco smoke residue, known as thirdhand smoke.
Vape clouds produced indoors by e-cigarettes break down within SECONDS to allow air quality to return to normal levels (while it takes over 30 minutes for a traditional cigarette)
The Chemicals You Inhale When Vaping
Instead of bathing lung tissue with a therapeutic mist, just as a nebulizer does, vaping coats lungs with potentially harmful chemicals.
Yes, some vapor doesn't have a smell, but some vapor has distinct smells linked to the vaping juice being used.
According to Drexel University toxicologist Igor Burstyn, while the contents of e-cig vapor inhaled by users “justifies surveillance,” there is so little contamination in exhaled vapor that there is unlikely to be any risk for bystanders. What isn't inhaled falls to the ground quite rapidly.
What about long-term vaping? Ongoing chemical exposure, especially at high doses, can cause olfactory dysfunction, including a reduced sense of smell.
After the air clears from smoking or vaping, the toxic chemicals that settle on surfaces become a residue called third-hand smoke or third-hand aerosol. Nicotine and other toxic chemicals have been found on surfaces like windows, walls, and floors in homes where people have either smoked or vaped.
Yes, they can.
Since all buildings should be fitted with one, you might be wondering “can vaping set off smoke alarms?”. The short answer is yes. But, there are different types of smoke detectors and some are a lot more sensitive to vapour than others.
In most cases, the answer is yes. Most hotel rooms have sensors or these vape detectors, especially if the hotel has a no-smoking rule. Whether you smoke nicotine or marijuana, the sensor will detect the particles roaming in the air and alert the hotel management.
While it won't stain your walls with a nasty yellowy tinge, vapour is just that - vapour! As exhaled e-liquid clouds settle on your walls and windows they leave behind a slight residue. This residue is predominantly water vapour but does contain small amounts of nicotine and flavouring too.
It's not safe to use vape pens or e-cigarette devices around kids. The vapor from e-cigarettes has chemicals in it that can be harmful to kids. There's another serious problem with e-smoking devices: Kids can get poisoned if they drink the liquid in nicotine delivery devices or refills.
Health harm
In contrast to the known harm from secondhand smoke, there's no evidence so far of harm to bystanders from exposure to e-cigarette vapour. The many harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke are either not contained in e-cigarette vapour at all, or are usually found at much lower levels.
Users puff on a vaping device (like a vape pen), which super-heats a liquid into a flavoured mist. Many people think vaping is harmless because users don't inhale smoke, but vape mist can contain very addictive nicotine as well as other harmful chemicals.
Is passive vaping harmful? There is no good evidence that second-hand vapour from e-cigarettes is harmful. As vaping is still relatively new, we can't be sure there aren't any long-term effects to people who breathe in someone else's vapour. But this is unlikely to be harmful.
Medical tests can detect nicotine in people's urine, blood, saliva, hair, and nails.
Can Vaping Stain Teeth? Much like smoking, vaping can make your teeth yellow. Nicotine in e-cigarettes can cause teeth to become deeply stained.