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From what I understand, some people have switched from smoking to vaping. Harm reduction and whatnot. Seems bit relevant no?
by dopamean 8y ago
From what I understand, some people have switched from smoking to vaping. Harm reduction and whatnot. Seems bit relevant no?
- lainga 8y agoIt's a good phenomenon, but it has nothing to do with the health effects of vaping. Bringing it up just muddles the waters. If a bunch of people switched from crack cocaine to cigarettes, would that warrant bringing it up every time a study came out about tobacco-related cancer?
- rsynnott 8y agoA bit different, in that the primary use of e-cigarettes is for giving up proper cigarettes. So the fact that they're still considered preferable to real cigarettes is relevant.
- moate 8y agoThe primary use of e-cigarettes/vapes is ingesting nicotine. Some people used e-cigarettes as a cessation aid. There are tons of young people who are growing up having never smoked cigarettes and who went directly to vaping. Their choice wasn't exactly "cigarettes or vape" it was "vape or not vape".
- lainga 8y agoNot among my age cohort, many of whom have never encountered cigarettes.
- criddell 8y ago> the primary use of e-cigarettes is for giving up proper cigarettes What makes you think that? Juul didn't get it's crazy valuation because of old smokers. People that care more about money than lives are putting money into it because they are hooking teens.
- criddell 8y agoI think your age might go into how relevant you think it is. I grew up with and around a lot of smokers. My teenaged kids are surrounded by people vaping. To me the relative harm seems relevant, to them it probably isn't.