Elf Bars are hugely popular disposable vapes (or e-cigarettes) available in various sizes, flavors, and nicotine levels. A disposable vape is simply an e-cigarette used only once (until it’s empty) and then thrown away Elf bar 5000 puffs. Disposable vapes have become the most widely used vapes in recent years, due to their ease of use, variety of flavors, and convenience.

Are Elf Bars bad for you?

The short answer is that Elf Bars are considered 95% safer than traditional cigarettes. Whilst they cannot be deemed completely harmless, they are a far safer option for adult smokers compared with cigarettes.

When answering whether disposable vapes—or in this case, Elf Bars—are bad for your health, it is important to consider that every discussion about the health risks of vaping should begin with a comparison to cigarette smoking. Vapes are designed to be reduced-harm alternatives to cigarettes, and it’s important to weigh vaping versus smoking, because the vast majority of vapers are smokers or ex-smokers.

That said, let’s look at some of the studies about vaping to determine if Elf Bars & other disposable vapes are bad for you.

Public Health England has been unequivocal in its findings: the respected British agency says “vaping is at least 95 percent safer than smoking” and that vapes “are significantly less harmful to health than tobacco and have the potential to help smokers quit smoking.” The landmark study by the Royal College of Physicians in 2016 on vaping—the group that first discovered the links between smoking and lung cancer—reached the same conclusion.

Most vaping studies compare smoking with e-cigarette use, and we know from the research noted above that vapes are 95% less harmful than smoking. However, one study in 2017 is unique in that it tracked the health markers of a group of vapers who had never smoked before for 3.5 years.

The researchers carefully measured heart, lung, and circulatory health indicators and compared them to the same markers in a control group of non-vapers who had also never smoked. The findings were uniformly positive. The vapers’ health markers were no worse than the non-smokers’—even among those who vaped the most.

“Although it cannot be excluded that some harm may occur at later stages, this study did not demonstrate any health concerns associated with long-term use of [vapes] in relatively young users who did not also smoke tobacco,” wrote the authors.

In summary, if you are a smoker looking to kick the habit, Elf Bars and other disposable vapes, are great, easy-to-use alternatives that could help you quit smoking for good. However, if you don’t smoke, we don’t recommend taking up vaping and using Elf Bars.

Elf Bars are definitely not worse than cigarettes. As we have established above, Elf Bars and other vapes are 95% less harmful than cigarettes. However, this hasn’t stopped misinformation from spreading online.

However, this is where the comparison ends. Cigarettes are set on fire, and the smoke contains a deadly brew of carcinogens and lung-damaging constituents. The vapor from an Elf Bar (or any e-cigarette) contains just a few concerning chemicals in tiny amounts. Alternatively, 4,000 chemicals, have been identified in the tobacco smoke of a cigarette. Of the 4000 chemicals, more than 70 harmful chemicals are known to cause, initiate or promote cancer.