Is Vaping in the same room as a Cham harmful?

[Charmeleon]

My wife's brother is staying with us and I had told him the vaping indoors wouldn't be a problem, but I forgot that I had my new Jackson's coming in on Tuesday! I know that Chameleons have very sensitive respiratory systems, so would this harm my new guy in any way? Thank you in advance!

 

[Dave Bolamperti]

I’d ask him to vape outside
Good luck
Dave

 

[Johnnyjames572]

I use a vape but outside since I have kids.but I’m guessing since the vapor has nicotine in it that it can be good for Chams at all

 

[CamrynTheCham22]

Even if it didn't have any side effects for the cham, which I doubt, its better to be safe than sorry.

 

[Charmeleon]

I use a vape but outside since I have kids.but I’m guessing since the vapor has nicotine in it that it can be good for Chams at all

That was my thought, but I wasn't sure what the vapor from a vape contained. Thank you!

 

[WyattN.]

Don't take the risk.

 

[nightanole]

E-juice, even if its legit, is made of propylene glycol(smoke screens, iv drips, skin lotions, can be plant or petrol based) and vegetable glycerin(Palm or coconut oil base) in different ratios for different throat feel. All are 100% safe, in liquid form...

VERY little study is done on second hand vaping, how much is filtered out by the lungs etc.

At worse, i would not have my cham next to my frying pan, due to the smoke, i would say the same for vaping. As long as he is in another room, you will be fine. Its a lot less harmful(if its harmful at all) vs perfume etc. I would be 10x more worried if i had a fireplace in the same room, or just a very dry room in general.

You can read all these scary articles, but they are very very cherry picked to get the authors narrative. If you believed even half of them, you would think the vapers are walking around sucking on lead, aluminum, silica dust, hyper nicotine, and just dropping dead every 6 months.

Any non back alley china knock off e-juice will have food or medical grade(its the only true ways to get them) propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin, nicotine(if its even in there) and an artificial flavor/smell, and almost all of those again, come from concentrates for food grade candy.


I would rate the "risk" as the same as using a non stick pan in the house. You have people thinking it will cause every bird in the house to drop dead 5min after you start cooking, all the way to the other end that think they are even safer than uncoated aluminum pans.

 

[NickTide]

There are conflicting reports on the safety of vaping for humans. I am sure there wont be any studies on chams. Keep in mind that cigarettes were considered safe by many until what... the 1960's maybe the 70's?

Also, nicotine itself is potentially lethal to humans. It would take a lot of nicotine or a weak heart to do someone in, but a cham is a slow moving animal, they may not be able to to take a stimulant like that. Birds don't handle caffeine well and the vapor of a self cleaning oven or something burning in a teflon [pan can kill them so who knows about chams

I'm not saying that just because a tiny bit of vape blows in from the window your cham will die, but I would limit it as much as possible... at the very least I would suggest a separate room.

 

[Rhino]

I wouldn't risk it, at the very least ask him to vape in a different room.