My New Bong

[dutch.lover]

thats good to know... have u ever seen the bongs made outta those plastic honey (bear) bottles? i think those look pretty sweet lol

[Towelie]

Nice pure function man thats the way to go.

[harris7]

That plastic bong is not a worry about inhaling harmful toxins. Your smoking out of the metal bowl and no flame gets in contact with the plastic. It's the metal bowl you're burning, and if that bothers you, to each his own, but I have owned a few bongs made of plastic and nothing ever melted.

Absolutely not true.

1. smoking out of most metals is bad for you and since most metal pieces are cheap you can assume they arenâ??t using pure alloys so youâ??ve probably got some mercury, lead and aluminum in there.

2.the plastic doesnâ??t need to burn to release toxins. We must understand burning to be rapid oxidization. If something is inert at a given temperature then it is not oxidizing.

Plastic may be inert at room temp, this is being debated, but it is definitely not when heated. With a bong of this type, you have a metal bowl that heats up way above 100 C and itâ??s touching a big plastic washer(for lack of a better word) which creates an air tight seal to the rest of the bong. This plastic ring as well as anywhere the warm smoke touches does give off toxins, mainly dioxins.

---something most people donâ??t know. Pop cans have plastic linings so that the beverage doesnâ??t react with the aluminum. So if you smoke out of a pop can you smoking burning plastic and burning aluminum. Yummy Alzheimerâ??s

In BC were Iâ??m from most bong/pipe stores wont carry plastic because it is so bad for you. A few shops do carry them and they usually warn people before selling them and they justify carrying them because so many Americans come up and want to smoke something for the weekend and then just toss it (everything else is way to much to do this)

People I know wont even smoke out of a glass bong unless it is glass on glass. This is because they say then can even taste the small amount of plastic in the seals.

[HypnotizedMind]

Sweet bong, thats all you need nothing to fancy but still gets the job done.

Acryllic bongs are safe, noticed i said acryllic NOT Plastic which are totally different.

and how would heat harm acryllic...if its cooled through water first?.

[yoyoman1020]

Sweet bong, thats all you need nothing to fancy but still gets the job done.

Acryllic bongs are safe, noticed i said acryllic NOT Plastic which are totally different.

and how would heat harm acryllic...if its cooled through water first?.

EXACTLY

[harris7]

Well, I’m not going to argue with anyone. Mainly because i don’t want to do any research and I agree that for some plastics it has not been proven that they are bad for you. But i will never feel safe using any plastics, including acrylics, because so many of them have been proven to be extremely toxic. I think it’s important to consider the precautionary principal especially when its concerning an activity that we take part in so often.

Ps- Some types of acrylics are considered carcinogens, or are “probable human carcinogens”

[HypnotizedMind]

Oh well youll drive yourself fuckin nuts with how safe a bong is.