They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day’s use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes.
That interpretation is your own opinion, and not reality. I don’t care if they do it. Just stop pretending it’s not bad. No one should be inhaling a heated/burning chemical that smells and tastes like bubble gum and produces a “smoke” like vapor when you exhale.
What I think is annoying is people who keep trying to make it not sound bad.
I literally said it’s bad. I agree, in an ideal world no one would be smoking or vaping or drinking etc the list goes on and on.
We don’t live in an ideal world.
If I could go back in time and stop my dumbass 16 year old self from smoking, I would. I’m just sick of dipshits like you acting all high and mighty because you don’t have an addiction and don’t understand how hard it is to get off nicotine.
Let people live their lives as they want and mind your own god damn business man. Not that hard.
I wrote a big long post but it boils down I agree with you and you wrote it better.
I beat alcohol after years of trying and more than one rehab. Quitting nicotine right now seems more daunting than the drug that ruined most of my life. It’s that addictive and vaping personally feels better for me than smoking a cigarette.
Congrats! I enjoy my drinks a little more than I should, it’s hard to get past that feeling of “I’m bored, a few beers would be nice”. Seriously, good for you, I’m happy you finally beat it!
Nicotine is hard because it doesn’t have such a strong effect on your life the way alcohol does and it’s (mostly) accepted as a vice that isn’t that big of a deal. No one at work is gonna judge you for having a vape/smoke break like they would if they smelled alcohol on your breath for example. It doesn’t make you hungover, or irritable, or tired because you stayed up to late etc. It simply becomes a part of your daily routine and that’s the hardest part about giving it up. I’ve been addicted to nicotine for 15 years now, 6 on smokes and 9 on vaping. Almost half my life at this point. I’ve tried 5 times to quit and I’ve never been able to make it past a week.
Don’t have an addiction? Who said I didn’t smoke for 15 years? Who said I didn’t use “ecigs” for 5 years. Who said I wasn’t off and on those nicotine mints for years? Who said I don’t fuuuukkinggg love opiates? Who said I haven’t struggled with alcoholism for decades?
You know who’s high and mighty? You.
I don’t pretend my problems are “okay” because I can still hold down a job.
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That’s not what I said — that’s a misrepresentation you’ve cobbled together by ignoring most of my comment and twisting the rest to suit your own narrative.
“Don’t be so judgemental about my judgement. If you’re going to smoke something you might as well smoke meth”
Why are you putting that in quotes? Is it because you said it? Yes.
I’m paraphrasing you in a teasing manner.
It’s rare that anyone on here teases.
Well I’m teasing. With a feather. Dismissing harm reduction because you believe a big tobacco hit piece is a little silly IMHO.
People who don’t vape see these articles and think that vaping is OK. Then they go from non-smoker who doesn’t vape to a person who does vape, which is not at all harm reduction. If I’m not correct then why are there so many people vaping who never smoked? People have been tricked into thinking that this is something that’s OK for them to do. I don’t mean socially, but that it has zero risk or low risk.
So, you can call me silly all you want, but please don’t tell me that I’m dismissing harm reduction, when I’m very clearly not.
It pretty difficult to quantify the amount of people who never smoked who would have smoked if they hadn’t vaped. This is clearly a big tobacco hit piece. I’m completely fine with becoming an anti vape crusader. Once leaf tobacco is dead.
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I’m not clicking that. And, I never said people shouldn’t do it. I just said don’t tell people it’s not harmful too. Far too many people like to defend their drug of choice. We should all be aware, even if we choose to ignore reality privately.