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Edit: did not intend this to be rude, and I ignored your "If you consider vaping to be a smoking cessation device" qualifier. It's good for that, and for hook
by drewmol 8y ago
Edit: did not intend this to be rude, and I ignored your "If you consider vaping to be a smoking cessation device" qualifier. It's good for that, and for hooking teenagers apearantly.
>I can't see how the salt version "isn't good" - it better mimics the thing you're trying to kick.
I think there may be a misunderstanding here.
This article is about the FDA "discussing the potential for drug therapy to help addicted young people quit". "The FDA has concluded that the level of addiction it is seeing among youthful e-cigarette users is so disturbing and so unprecedented that it needs to at least ask whether we need a solution that goes beyond what we ever did with cigarettes,"
>I fail to see how quitting with a 'hit' based approach is suddenly wrong
Breaking nicotine dependance is the goal. Nicotine salt versions were available but much less common vs freebase suspentions until recently. Introducing other drugs to combat nicotine addiction seems like a more drastic and less sucessful approach vs vaping of formulations that cause less violent blood nicotine level fluctuations combined with gradual reduction in nicotine concentration.
If electronic inhaled caffine delivery devices existed with newly popular caffine suspention formulations that promoted increased daily dependence and high frequency of device usage and also had rising popularity among teens and pre-teens, I would view them as a slightly more serious "bad for you" problem to address.
- goldcd 8y ago"Breaking nicotine dependance is the goal." I'd disagree. Stopping people smoking is the goal - as that's what causes the damage. Breaking nicotine dependency is definitely one way of doing this, but if it can't be broken, switching delivery mechanism from smoking is nearly as good.
- drewmol 8y agoI agree switching delivery mechanism from smoking to vaping is good, but in the case of this article the issue here is youth becoming nicotine addicts by going straight to vaping. This phenomena will likely increase as Altria brings there centuries of proven addiction expertese and research to JUUL.