I hope I've found the proper forum to make this suggestion.
It is mainly targeted at the more professional and semi-professional PV gear/liquid reviewers and promotional teams, but it doesn't hurt for ALL of us to bear it in mind when doing public reviews.
In the spring of 2011 I was able to kick a 15+ year 3 pack a day full flavor smoking habit thanks to help from the PV industry and the 'vaping community'. It has greatly improved the quality of my life and financial standing in comparison to my former tobacco addiction.
Back then, nearly every product review I saw included comments about vaping helping kick combustible tobacco use. The 'eCig' was gaining a positive impression in the minds of 'non nicotine addicts' as a safer alternative to smoking.
Today, there is an ever growing number of videos and tutorials that clearly move vaping into the realms of a 'strictly recreational product'. Many are even 'bragging' about pushing gear to unsafe limits, and the 'huge buzz' they can get while waving around devices that look to the general public more like a 'dope pipe' or a 'time bomb waiting to torch' than something safe and beneficial to individual users and people around them.
While I personally take no issue with purely recreational vaping, the freedom to vape in a self regulated PV industry is in danger. New generations are being attracted to vaping that clearly have not been exposed to long term nicotine addictions (at least not legally). This could be bad for us until vaping is better accepted and established in main-stream society as something safe for the public at large.
Please consider mentioning more in reviews the strength and power of these products to kick a powerful and far more dangerous smoking addiction.
Please consider toning down the frequency and style of reviews that focus purely on the 'recreational aspects' of vaping.
Please consider encouraging safe practices and educating viewers/readers about the importance of quality batteries, how to understand and stay within their safe operating parameters, and to care for them.
Sincerely,
Credo
It is mainly targeted at the more professional and semi-professional PV gear/liquid reviewers and promotional teams, but it doesn't hurt for ALL of us to bear it in mind when doing public reviews.
In the spring of 2011 I was able to kick a 15+ year 3 pack a day full flavor smoking habit thanks to help from the PV industry and the 'vaping community'. It has greatly improved the quality of my life and financial standing in comparison to my former tobacco addiction.
Back then, nearly every product review I saw included comments about vaping helping kick combustible tobacco use. The 'eCig' was gaining a positive impression in the minds of 'non nicotine addicts' as a safer alternative to smoking.
Today, there is an ever growing number of videos and tutorials that clearly move vaping into the realms of a 'strictly recreational product'. Many are even 'bragging' about pushing gear to unsafe limits, and the 'huge buzz' they can get while waving around devices that look to the general public more like a 'dope pipe' or a 'time bomb waiting to torch' than something safe and beneficial to individual users and people around them.
While I personally take no issue with purely recreational vaping, the freedom to vape in a self regulated PV industry is in danger. New generations are being attracted to vaping that clearly have not been exposed to long term nicotine addictions (at least not legally). This could be bad for us until vaping is better accepted and established in main-stream society as something safe for the public at large.
Please consider mentioning more in reviews the strength and power of these products to kick a powerful and far more dangerous smoking addiction.
Please consider toning down the frequency and style of reviews that focus purely on the 'recreational aspects' of vaping.
Please consider encouraging safe practices and educating viewers/readers about the importance of quality batteries, how to understand and stay within their safe operating parameters, and to care for them.
Sincerely,
Credo
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