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This sounds eerily familiar with how big tobacco targeted underage kids to get them hooked on their products in the 60's and 70's.
by burningChrome 2y ago
This sounds eerily familiar with how big tobacco targeted underage kids to get them hooked on their products in the 60's and 70's.
- supertofu 2y agoYou don't even have to go that far back. Remember Juul in the 2010s?
- radicaldreamer 2y agoJuul sent representatives to schools who told kids that Juuls weren’t addictive. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/juul-teens-vaping.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/juul-teens-vaping....
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago> sent representatives to schools This seems like something that should need to be positively justified by the organization which wants to send salespeo^W representatives to schools, in a way that is publicly auditable.
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- burningChrome 2y agoI remember a ton of vaping threads extoling the idea vaping was totally safe on Reddit. When people brought up the possible negative side effects of vaping they were routinely downvoted into oblivion. Nobody wanted to believe vaping was dangerous are could have harmful side effects.
- 325125 2y agoWhat are the harmful side effects if you don't have a preexisting health condition?
- drekk 2y agoBesides a crippling nicotine addiction?
- carlmr 2y agoWe don't know yet. But besides the nicotine addiction, there are other components in the vapor which we have no long-term data on, because it's just so new. But we know that there are components in the vapor that are harmful to your health, and nicotine itself is cardiotoxic, so there's that [1]. We do however have studies showing that vaping can be implicated in lung cancer [2]. [1] https://www.moffitt.org/cancers/lung-cancer/faqs/lung-cancer-and-vaping https://www.moffitt.org/cancers/lung-cancer/faqs/lung-cancer... [2] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240520/Study-reveals-increased-risk-of-lung-cancer-in-e-cigarette-users-after-smoking-cessation.aspx https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240520/Study-reveals-inc...
- supertofu 2y agoI can only answer anecdotally from my personal experience but: frequent coughing while not vaping, chest pain, very obviously reduced cardiovascular capacity and increased fatigue during my workouts.
- valianteffort 2y agoYour body has no mechanism for purging oil residue from your lungs. The frequency at which vape users would be flooding their lungs with those vaporized oils was akin to someone starting out as a pack a day heavy smoker. Tar as I understand it does break down very slowly over time but many smoke at a greater rate than it can be broken down and smoke itself is a worse irritant than oil vapor.
- TremendousJudge 2y agoTobacco companies have always targeted kids. In the early 20th century most baseball cards were produced by sweets and tobacco manufacturers
- bryan_w 2y agoHowso? This seems like a separate situation than the one you mentioned.
- ProllyInfamous 2y agoI remember from my 80's/90's childhood candy cigarettes [essentially sugar compressed into long cylinders]... just the other day, at a Southern US sporting goods store, I saw "Big Chew Gum," which had a baseball player with a wad of tobacco ("gum") in his mouth. Thought this was strange, as chewing tobacco is probably more addictive than cigarettes, and the gum's packaging was clearly set at child-height.