I smoked for 45 years. I managed to survive having smoking parents and yes, they smoked in the house and car while I and my 6 siblings were with them. A lot of us want to blame someone for our choices. I don’t blame my parents since they exposed me to smoking in the first place. I was almost 18 before I started so was considered an adult and it was completely my choice as an adult.
This was well before the anti smoke crowd convinced so many that the kids would suffer greatly if they were exposed to our evil habit. It was well before kids were convinced that smoke was evil and it was their job to shame their parents into either quitting or hiding the fact that they smoked. Not the kids fault. It was what they were being taught in the classrooms. (sometime in place of actually educating them but that is a discussion for another time)
Along comes something that truly does have the power to end a lifelong habit and there are those that are still not happy. We now have something that may make cigarette smoking a total thing of the past. The naysayers can't see that future generations that would have started smoking and choose vaping instead will not have the problems we that started smoking have had. From all I have been able to find, the consensus is that it isn't the nicotine in cigarettes that is the problem with being able to put them behind us. It is a mix of 1000's of other chemicals.
The ANTZ say, It looks like smoking so let's demonize it and shame folks just like we did when they were smoking. They have, in fact, accomplished their goal, if getting folks to stop smoking was their original goal. Sadly, that isn't good enough for them. Now they want to stop the demon vape.
Big Pharmacy is saying. The problem we are seeing is they are no longer getting sick. They are no longer buying our over priced over the counter or prescription drugs. They are no longer buying our NRT products. They are living longer and much healthier without us. We have got to do something about that. How about we fund a study that says exactly what we want it to say. Doesn't matter that the study skews the results. We have to make this vaping thing look bad in the eye of the general public. Yep, that should work because some of them will believe us.
Big tobacco is seeing their bottom line going down. What can we do to get them back to buying our products. How about we reformulate our products to make them more addictive so we can sink that hook in even more firmly to the ones that are just starting out. We have to make sure that we keep a steady flow of lifelong customers. And then we need to budget in truck loads of cash to make sure that the studies say just what we want them to say. If we can keep them afraid of this new life saving technology we will keep more of our customers.
Big government is the winner though if enough studies come out against this life saving technology. Just follow the money and even those with blinders on should be able to see what is happening. Big Government says, Let's help fund studies and make sure they say what we want them to say. We don't care if they aren't factual as long as we can keep them believing that we know what is best for them. We know better but we are losing money and we aren't going to stand for it.
I am NOT saying that what we vape is 100% safe. No one is saying that but it is much much better than the alternative. If we so choose we can choose to omit those thing that we deem unsafe. I am not convinced by all that I have read so far that any of it is. That isn't something we could do when we smoked. With vaping the choices are endless and there is something for everyone.
This was well before the anti smoke crowd convinced so many that the kids would suffer greatly if they were exposed to our evil habit. It was well before kids were convinced that smoke was evil and it was their job to shame their parents into either quitting or hiding the fact that they smoked. Not the kids fault. It was what they were being taught in the classrooms. (sometime in place of actually educating them but that is a discussion for another time)
Along comes something that truly does have the power to end a lifelong habit and there are those that are still not happy. We now have something that may make cigarette smoking a total thing of the past. The naysayers can't see that future generations that would have started smoking and choose vaping instead will not have the problems we that started smoking have had. From all I have been able to find, the consensus is that it isn't the nicotine in cigarettes that is the problem with being able to put them behind us. It is a mix of 1000's of other chemicals.
The ANTZ say, It looks like smoking so let's demonize it and shame folks just like we did when they were smoking. They have, in fact, accomplished their goal, if getting folks to stop smoking was their original goal. Sadly, that isn't good enough for them. Now they want to stop the demon vape.
Big Pharmacy is saying. The problem we are seeing is they are no longer getting sick. They are no longer buying our over priced over the counter or prescription drugs. They are no longer buying our NRT products. They are living longer and much healthier without us. We have got to do something about that. How about we fund a study that says exactly what we want it to say. Doesn't matter that the study skews the results. We have to make this vaping thing look bad in the eye of the general public. Yep, that should work because some of them will believe us.
Big tobacco is seeing their bottom line going down. What can we do to get them back to buying our products. How about we reformulate our products to make them more addictive so we can sink that hook in even more firmly to the ones that are just starting out. We have to make sure that we keep a steady flow of lifelong customers. And then we need to budget in truck loads of cash to make sure that the studies say just what we want them to say. If we can keep them afraid of this new life saving technology we will keep more of our customers.
Big government is the winner though if enough studies come out against this life saving technology. Just follow the money and even those with blinders on should be able to see what is happening. Big Government says, Let's help fund studies and make sure they say what we want them to say. We don't care if they aren't factual as long as we can keep them believing that we know what is best for them. We know better but we are losing money and we aren't going to stand for it.
I am NOT saying that what we vape is 100% safe. No one is saying that but it is much much better than the alternative. If we so choose we can choose to omit those thing that we deem unsafe. I am not convinced by all that I have read so far that any of it is. That isn't something we could do when we smoked. With vaping the choices are endless and there is something for everyone.
