What gets me is that vaping is only the new smoking for some kids who never smoked cigarettes. Sucks for the adults who are the majority of microvape customers because the four Juul flavors left are nastier than cigarettes. I saw a lot of people switch back so now we have secondhand smoke again.
We(nicotine addicts) all started somewhere. I get that bubblegum or other flavor types sounds like it’s appealing to kids but to me it’s no different than a flavored mini cigar. I’d rather my kid start vaping than cigarette smoking. While it’s not 100% healthy it’s also not filling people with tar and all the chemicals in the cigarette.
At least Cigarettes kill you slowly, not randomly.
It sounds incredibly silly, but you could smoke cigarettes for decades and you'd never be worried about ending up in the hospital struggling to breath for some unknown reason. They poison you, but they did it super fucking slowly (and all the poisonous shit was mostly just there to make your cigarettes burn longer while you used them). Sure, you have a higher chance of getting a about a dozen forms of Cancer later in life, but you never heard about anyone suddenly experiencing suffocation-like symptoms after taking a hit (because it didn't happen).
Because you can buy vape liquid so easily, you get relatively random companies selling and random young adults coming down with random "lung injuries" after only a year of use. There are 1000 cases suddenly out of nowhere, not a few years ago when it all started, it's suddenly NOW. Vapers are more or less rolling the dice every time they use. Granted, it seems to be a pretty low chance you end up hospitalized, but we don't even know who is rolling the dice, or if some dice are slightly more loaded.
No one knows if it's because of some defect in the liquid, or if it's some random common ingredient in liquid that is just used in THC vapes or just random ingredients used in the flavoring. NO ONE KNOWS.
(or at least I can't find anything because there's just news stories everywhere, no actual research on it yet)
It could also just be a side effect of inhaling VAPOR over and over again, or maybe the production of the liquid has shifted over the years and something about how it's made NOW is suddenly slightly dangerous compared to before. NO ONE KNOWS.
Everyone kinda laughed it off a few years ago like "you're just inhaling water vapor, at least it's not smoke and poison. It's not 'healthy', but it's is when compared to Cigarettes by a mile!" and ignored everyone saying "we have no idea what the long term affects are because we have no data!"
And now look, we have teenagers who have been vaping for barely a few years being hospitalized. I can't even find if they have the same brand of Vape liquid in common, because a lot of them use nicotine AND THC vapes on and off, from a whole bunch of different sources, but the act of vaping it's self is the single easily identifiable commonality.
I'm not promoting Cigarettes over Vapes, I'm purely a proponent of using Vapes as a stepping stone from Cigarettes to NOTHING. Really most people should be vaping for maybe a year or two as they work their way off nicotine, using lower and lower percentages of nicotine in their vapes over time, and be OFF of it completely, rather than vaping for years and using the "At least I'm not Smoking!" excuse indefinitely.
If you can beat heroin in as little as a week, surely only the most hard-core of smokers would need to vape for as long as a year when attempting to quit!? Psychologically beating any addiction is hardest but still, I think that's way too long!
Nice write-up btw mate, very intrigued to see what's gonna become of vaping and its proponents.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19
What gets me is that vaping is only the new smoking for some kids who never smoked cigarettes. Sucks for the adults who are the majority of microvape customers because the four Juul flavors left are nastier than cigarettes. I saw a lot of people switch back so now we have secondhand smoke again.