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>I highly suspect these young vapers would have picked up smoking instead if products like this didn't exist. personal observation, not data, but I don't think
by hprotagonist 8y ago
>I highly suspect these young vapers would have picked up smoking instead if products like this didn't exist.
personal observation, not data, but I don't think this is so. I work on a university campus, and the proportion of people on campus that smoke has cratered this decade. The only reliable smoking populations are foreign students, and they seem to taper off over their undergrad years, which I can ascribe only to peer pressure against smelling horrible -- and maybe easy access to "study aids" like adderall.
edit: i should add that juul use has jumped just this year alone, and with less focused of a user group.
- uxp100 8y agoBut doesn't that line up with the popularization of nicotine vaping? I tend to think indoor smoking bans had something to do with the decline, but I don't know the timeline for anywhere except my state.
- hprotagonist 8y agoit does, loosely. However, box mods are still quite rare, so it's not super clear that the narrative of "people stopped smoking and started vaping" really holds -- or held until Juul took over, which is quite recent. It's fairer to say that an age cohort basically just stopped consuming nicotine at all, and that a new, younger generation has picked up again but switched delivery methods.