Can I pose a question to y'all, based on a story I saw on the ten o'clock news last night? We all know that e cigs are huge in the news. Some rep here in CA is trying to make it illegal to purchase e cigs or related equipment online (sigh). The biggest "issue" of the entire story though? That e cigs are a "gateway to regular cigs" for kids, yes we have all heard the stories. Curiously enough, nobody mentioned the idea that kids might try vaping and just stick with it. Is that so far fetched? Is that bad? Especially compared to some alternatives, namely the use of analogs?
Ok.....so I may have a unique view on this as a non-smoker but recreational vaper, so I will throw my opinion out and I am curious about the thoughts of rest of you. I personally disagree that e cigs are a reliable gateway to analogs. I think e cigs may simply be a gateway to more e cigs. I simply don't see them as a gateway to smoking for the majority of the young population. My reasoning? Speaking as someone with virgin lungs so-to-speak, vaping is much more pleasurable than smoking. It is tastier, easier on the throat and lungs, and yes, there is still the nicotine addiction pleasure factor (I personally vape 0mg, but lets be realistic). Why would someone pick up vaping, enjoy the flavors and probably the nicotine, and then switch to the analogs, which offer no yummy flavors, more expensive, more uncomfortable, more of a hassle overall with the smell, staining, etc. I just don't see it happening consistently. The vaping crowd is appearing more and more "cool" from what I can see, online and even in public. In fact, the story referred to a vaping cafe type place that some guy was wanting to open. In fact that is what everyone is freaking about. They do not want vaping to be "cool".
Personally, I see the possibility of a whole new generation of vapers, who never smoked analogs. Now.....if vaping were not an option, a great deal of those kids might have started smoking analogs instead, and we are fairly certian that vaping is gonna be less harmful to the body overall, so is that so horrid? Yep, an addiction to nicotine in all likelyhood, big whoop IMO, compared with a whole new generation of analog smokers. Vaping, if allowed to become mainstream, could literally change the direction of new "smokers" and have a very different outcome for the health of a whole generation of this nation. I am shocked and frankly ...... at the short sightedness of the ideas presented in the story I saw last night. We all know there is much more to this topic..... taxation, regulation, financial competition, but the "won't somebody pleeease think of the children?" battle cry is a smokescreen (pun intended). Frankly, I think if we were thinking of the children, we would encourage those adults who wish to do so, to vape on.
Ok.....so I may have a unique view on this as a non-smoker but recreational vaper, so I will throw my opinion out and I am curious about the thoughts of rest of you. I personally disagree that e cigs are a reliable gateway to analogs. I think e cigs may simply be a gateway to more e cigs. I simply don't see them as a gateway to smoking for the majority of the young population. My reasoning? Speaking as someone with virgin lungs so-to-speak, vaping is much more pleasurable than smoking. It is tastier, easier on the throat and lungs, and yes, there is still the nicotine addiction pleasure factor (I personally vape 0mg, but lets be realistic). Why would someone pick up vaping, enjoy the flavors and probably the nicotine, and then switch to the analogs, which offer no yummy flavors, more expensive, more uncomfortable, more of a hassle overall with the smell, staining, etc. I just don't see it happening consistently. The vaping crowd is appearing more and more "cool" from what I can see, online and even in public. In fact, the story referred to a vaping cafe type place that some guy was wanting to open. In fact that is what everyone is freaking about. They do not want vaping to be "cool".
Personally, I see the possibility of a whole new generation of vapers, who never smoked analogs. Now.....if vaping were not an option, a great deal of those kids might have started smoking analogs instead, and we are fairly certian that vaping is gonna be less harmful to the body overall, so is that so horrid? Yep, an addiction to nicotine in all likelyhood, big whoop IMO, compared with a whole new generation of analog smokers. Vaping, if allowed to become mainstream, could literally change the direction of new "smokers" and have a very different outcome for the health of a whole generation of this nation. I am shocked and frankly ...... at the short sightedness of the ideas presented in the story I saw last night. We all know there is much more to this topic..... taxation, regulation, financial competition, but the "won't somebody pleeease think of the children?" battle cry is a smokescreen (pun intended). Frankly, I think if we were thinking of the children, we would encourage those adults who wish to do so, to vape on.
