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on the contrary, I strongly believe that tobacco companies are the driving force behind the attempts to equate vaping and smoking. idk about the current year, b
by b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
on the contrary, I strongly believe that tobacco companies are the driving force behind the attempts to equate vaping and smoking. idk about the current year, but tobacco companies had little to no influence over the vaping market during its early years. the hardware was 5% American from small companies and 95% Chinese, the nicotine fluid had local producers everywhere because of how cheap and easy it is to make. almost all early adopters were people who wanted to quit smoking, and a lot of them succeeded.
and it's not harmless, sure, but it's definitely less harmful than inhaling combustion products of pulverized tobacco waste glued together with a mix of a hundred mystery chemicals.
- nextaccountic 5mo agoVaping has its share of mystery chemicals too, though
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo agothe flavorants are fairly mysterious, yeah. we know diacetyl is bad to inhale, we don't know how many others are. but if you DIY, only propylene glycol and nicotine are strictly required. vegetable glycerin and flavorants are optional. I'd choose even the most mysterious Chinese bathtub e-juice over cigarettes though.
- hnlmorg 5mo agoOr, maybe do neither?
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo agoif you aren't already a smoker? yes, absolutely. but if you are, and you are not the one in ten who has the iron will to quit cold turkey and never relapse, you're better off getting your nicotine fix delivered by ANY medium other than toxic smoke.
- hnlmorg 5mo agoWhich comes back to my original complaint: vaping has grown so exponentially that there are people vaping who were never old enough to have started smoking.
- dyauspitr 5mo agoFlavorless VG is pretty much mystery free. At that point you only need to worry about what’s coming off the actual coils.
- cogogo 5mo agoI think the argument is that vaping is far more addictive for young people because of exactly what you say. Does not feel harmful and they end up very addicted at higher doses of nicotine than cigarettes
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo agoso let it only be sold to adults, sure. I'm just saying that equating vaping to smoking is absurd, because it's not nicotine that breaks your heart and your dick and gives you cancer, it's the smoke.
- cogogo 5mo agoVaping is still objectively horrible for the lungs.[0] And I would be slower to argue about the cancer. Do we know yet? It is a young vice. [0]https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/evali https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/evali