New smokers and old smokers

[Uncle Sam]

Most of us, I believe, came to vaping as a means of eventual smoking cessation or harm reduction. It seems like most have been tobacco users for a long time and this is has been our god-sent tool of freedom.

Then I look around at some reviews on You Tube, and look at a lot of posts here and it appears that some people took up vaping WITHOUT being cigarette smokers in the first place. If one of my children were to take up vaping and not smoking, I would still be ...... off about it.

I have smoked for 25 years, tried EVERY method of quitting, failed until now.

I do know some people who have began to vape and have never smoked.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Am I the only one that thinks this is ......ed? Am I missing the boat or what?

 

[Ken_A]

Would you rather that this new breed of vapers started out with tobacco? When you were younger, was there ANYTHING someone could have done to make you NOT take that first drag? Second?
I would MUCH rather have someone start vaping without ever having picked up a cigarette as opposed to being like me and smoking a PIPE and 14 oz of tobacco a month for 30 years. All that tobacco without even the benefit of a filter could have had a worse effect on me than it did.

 

[DavidOck]

No, not the only one...

Although I outsmoked you by some 20 years,

While vaping - at this point in time, empirical and statistical data - certainly appears to be a lot less harmful than inhaling burnt material, it does seem a bit odd that one who doesn't have the addiction to get started on it.