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Tonee N

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I discovered after I had been vaping for awhile that the nicotine in cigarettes wasn't satisfying at all anymore. I discovered this an hour from home with a dead battery and no spare, I bought a pack of analogs. Not only tasting bad and giving me a headache it just didn't have any of the pleasure effects that vaping gives me now. Also after smoking an 1/2 pack of analogs, the next day I felt as if I had been hit by a truck. I haven't made another analog purchase since.
 

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Life is a gateway... to death. Let none of us forget this fact, and fight the powers that be who want to remove all the good things from something that is probably going to increase my number of "breaths" be they e-liquid filled ones, or just regular ones.

That's kind of what I always say though, "Life is a gateway to death... Do you really want to spend your time demonizing smoking OR vaping? Life is short."

I'm glad I'm not an anti-most-things Nazi, life is to short to waste on THAT kind of advocacy. If I were to run around pointing out all the things I hated or disagreed with, I'd probably be extremely unhappy.

And I've met the anti smoking crowd, the anti vaping lot, and MADD and they all seem extraordinarily shrill and unhappy. Just... do what you want, as long as you're not encroaching on MY individual liberties, that's when I get sort of unhappy... :(

Of course, the concept of "individual" liberty doesn't do much for a mom who has to organize MADD, those kinds of folks need to walk into an al-anon meeting and go, "Hmm... my kid's not the problem, alcohol and vaping is not the problem, *I* am the problem by being a control freak." That realization usually takes several years... I know, since I birthed one and married two, Al-anon just saved my bacon. I am SO much less bossy/judgmental than I used to be (I know, I know.... I still AM, just LESS, LOL).

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Agreed. No gateway for sure.
I’m one of the younger regular posters here and this is by no means a young mans game.

I know they do, but I personally never see young people vaping.
When I was 13/14, leaping over the fence and having a crafty smoke (of many things) was a cool kid thing.
Smoking is not cool anymore and I’m glad the youth have seen sense.

Saying that, there is no way on this earth that a 13 yo would vape lemon meringue pie on Monday and then pop in and buy 20 extra smooth on the Tuesday.
What a waste of a 10er

Prices these days....
I’m getting old
 
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