If nicotine is soooo addictive, then why didnt I get addicted to the gum, patches, lozenges???? Also, Im not really addicted to my vape either, but I still want my ciggies!!! And as far as having my immune system compromised by vaping.... since I started vaping I havent had a cold ( which I used to catch 2X a year when I was smoking... Feb and Nov) sooo... no colds since 2013 ... 6 yrs of vaping and no colds
go figger
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Different absorption mechanism. No rapid spike in nicotine levels like you get with cigarettes, and to a lesser degree vaping.
Thing is, I, and I believe most vapers who took this up to stop smoking do not want to see kids vape, nicotine or not (OK better nic free than not). So how about the smart approach. Smoke? Consider vaping. Don't smoke, don't vape. Simple, to the point, and truthful. You taught a generation not to smoke. That's great. Really. I don't want to see kids pick up a cigarette then struggle like we did down the road when it might even be too late. But kids (teens) aren't stupid. Try the truth and it might stick. Otherwise they laugh their butts off watching muppets and have no clue what they're vaping (I do believe the survey results that a whole bunch don't even know there's nicotine in those cartridges). Enforce age verification at the convenience store gas station crowd. Then stop and watch the results. If it works, which it probably will although there will always be some who can't be dissuaded no matter what, call it a day. If it doesn't, tell them they'll grow hair on their palms, just like with ............. (no one ever believed that one for more than 10 minutes even when they were 10). But resorting to muppets? That's just a lack of common sense methods that could work. Instead it makes a mockery of the attempts, and leaves you with the "we tried but it didn't work so toss them all in the bay" (those poor fish that are somehow still alive despite a steady diet of plastic). It's not just an insult to adults who vape to stop smoking, it's an insult to the teens they're trying to influence. Who the hell would believe a muppet after age 14 in the first place?
The vaping industry didn't do itself any favors when it marketed e juice in juice pack designs or cans of Ready Whip. Juul should have spotted their demographic shift earlier and made adjustments before letting it get this nuts. For all the beliefs in personal liberties to do as we please, that's not how the real world works, and expecting some dramatic shift in social policy to defend individual choice is also harmful as it's not happening. So adjust accordingly to get by within the the world of politics and opinions we live in. We're not getting a constitutional convention or a withdrawal of all legislation that impact our private lives. It's time to work with the world we inhabit, not the one we wish it was.
If one day that comes to pass, terrific. But it's not the world today, and I really, really doubt it's the world tomorrow. So we need to be realistic and point out the crazy approaches that won't work ,and be proactive in supporting pragmatic solutions that might. If that means no packaging that's easy to mistake for Fruit Loops, fine. If that means pods are under the counter and not on display, fine, I can live with that But fight tooth and nail over every single plan, even if it might be sound (muppets not included) and we look as nuts as the foaming at the mouth zealot ANTZ crowd. Tough to be taken seriously when you look like that. ANTZ gets away with it because they've taken time to hone their message and build credibility by opposing youth smoking. We need to build credibility by recognizing the need to do the same. Unfortunately this all developed a lot faster than the decades the ANTZ crowd had so we need to act smarter faster or we will lose.
