AIBU to be surprised doctors ask about smoking but not vaping?

[CassandraWebb]

I've had a hospital stay and a few appointments recently because of breathing issues. We are pretty sure they are caused by my rare condition but understandably doctors want to check for other contributing factors.

One thing that has struck me is that they ask whether I smoke /have smoked but they don't ask about vaping. I don't do either but I had understood vaping can cause breathing issues and it's so prevalent now that I feel surprised they don't ask

So do train stations.

Sorry I posted this thread and then forgot about it!!

It's been interesting reading the responses.
I guess the knowledge about harm maybe is too nascent for now but I would feel it was pretty relevant info if someone has breathing issues

For the avoidance of doubt - I definitely dont vape!

But I am not sure it can be assumed that someone would think to answer "no but I vape" if asked whether they smoke.

I've had some medical stuff this year and thought the same thing. Smoking isn't the same thing as vaping. I do always offer 'but I do vape'. Nicotine isn't harmless; there's a lot of evidence that it slows healing/clearing viruses etc. vaping is a relevant risk factor for quite a lot of medical stuff because of that.

Eg. I had a g.a. in Jan and the advice was to stop smoking or vaping 3 days beforehand. I needed to clear a long term virus as well and I was strongly advised to stop vaping any nicotine.

How hard is it to change the question?