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It's not addressed in the article but I wonder if it is having a similar impact on vaping.
by Mountain_Skies 6y ago
It's not addressed in the article but I wonder if it is having a similar impact on vaping.
- aksss 6y agoConsidering UCL also released a study[0] saying eCigs helped smokers quit, I would assume transitioning off of traditional cigarettes to vaping counts as quitting for the purpose of this headline. [0] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/oct/e-cigarettes-may-help-over-50000-smokers-quit-england-each-year https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/oct/e-cigarettes-may-help-ov...
- analog31 6y agoBeing stuck at home without access to peers might force a lot of teenagers to quit. When they closed the schools, I asked my spouse, now where are teenagers going to get their stuff? High schools are a "super spreader event" for chemical addictions.
- saagarjha 6y agoAnecdotally, they're still getting it from the same places–you don't have to do it at school when you can just meet anywhere else.
- throw_m239339 6y agoHarder to smoke at home when the parents are watching... and usually, kids aren't addicted yet. I know I wasn't when I started, I could quit any time, and I should have back then.
- saagarjha 6y agoYou can smoke outside, that’s where the kids from my neighborhood do it.
- analog31 6y agoTrue, but like a communicable disease, spreading is not a binary number, but a function of the amount of contact.
- newen 6y agoI actually switched fully to vaping when quarantine started because I figure time for a little bit of change and I can just order it online (I'm sure I can order cigarettes online but all the sites seemed kind of sketchy). I was going half and half before that.