Are e-cigarettes addictive?

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zoiDman

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Down here in central Florida it's the mosquito. We call them our state bird lol.


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When I was a Kid on a family trip to Florida, I saw 4 or 5 June Bugs team up to try and steal a Styrofoam Cooler in a park. And the Family had to beat them back with Tennis Rackets and Paper Plates.
 

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Oh! Things have improved! When I lived in central Fla as a kid, it was the flying cockroach. Long hair + flying cockroach = horrorshow.

But Floridians prefer to use the name "palmettos" for those giant flying cockroaches. Guess it sounds less terrifying to visitors and lessen the impact of tourism which Florida is known for.

I want you to know I'm now going to be unable to sleep tonight to avoid nightmares of those things flying around and crawling into ears.
 

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But Floridians prefer to use the name "palmettos" for those giant flying cockroaches. Guess it sounds less terrifying to visitors and lessen the impact of tourism which Florida is known for.

Greatest lie the devil ever told...

I want you to know I'm now going to be unable to sleep tonight to avoid nightmares of those things flying around and crawling into ears.

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But Floridians prefer to use the name "palmettos" for those giant flying cockroaches. Guess it sounds less terrifying to visitors and lessen the impact of tourism which Florida is known for.

I want you to know I'm now going to be unable to sleep tonight to avoid nightmares of those things flying around and crawling into ears.

I didn't know what she was talking about because of it being Florida we have all kinds of roaches but she was talking about the big black roaches. Yes we call them palmetto roaches. Those things get BIG! I've lived here all of my 34 years of being alive and never known anybody to have one of those crawl in their ear. That's crazy!


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Helpful tip for a bug in your ear. Fill your ear canal with mineral oil. Should smother the sucker and then they should float to the surface (out of your ear). No idea if VG would do the same, but if nothing else is around, you can give that a shot before running off for emergency treatment.

Yeah- when it happened I was a kind of long walk from home, and all I was really thinking about was killing the thing. After I did it was pretty firmly jammed in there, and there wasn't anyone around I wanted to ask to help flood my ear canal to get a bug out of it ;). I didn't actually go to an ER- it was one of those walk-in 'urgent care places,' so a lot less expensive. I had really good health insurance at the time, and I pretty much never used it- that's actually the only time I've seen a physician other than an eye doctor in the last 10 years.
 
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I didn't know what she was talking about because of it being Florida we have all kinds of roaches but she was talking about the big black roaches. Yes we call them palmetto roaches. Those things get BIG! I've lived here all of my 34 years of being alive and never known anybody to have one of those crawl in their ear. That's crazy!

I'm a northerner, but I lived in St Pete for three or four years, and then in and near Gainesville for a couple more. Florida roaches are indeed impressive. I'd lived in NYC before that, so I was pretty familiar with the German cockroach, but Florida roaches are another story entirely.
 
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I'm a northerner, but I lived in St Pete for three or four years, and then in and near Gainesville for a couple more. Florida roaches are indeed impressive. I'd lived in NYC before that, so I was pretty familiar with the German cockroach, but Florida roaches are another story entirely.

Oh St. Pete. I enjoy going there for Tampa Bay Rays games. I'm in Lakeland just down 275 and I-4 from there. Nice to talk to someone on here from my area.

Yes, Florida roaches are another thing. Especially when you get into the rural areas (me being born and raise in Polk County) we always are in the woods hunting. You see all kinds of bugs in the woods! Some even scare you..lol.


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To answer the OP's question "are e-cigarettes addictive?"
No, on their own they are just benign pieces of metal and plastic, so if you own one and just look at it and never use it, you are quite safe, just saying.
Inanimate objects cannot harm you (guns, vape, knives, cars, walnuts, etc)

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