A tough one for sure.. We all picked up smoking for one reason or another, I started a few months before I turned 18 in 1993, carried on for 20 years til I quit last year. After getting over it and realizing the damage it did to me (and my wallet) Id really prefer kids in general NOT take up smoking but then being an old '{Moderated} YOU GOVERNMENT DONT TELL ME HOW TO LIVE' person for so long it feels kinda hypocritical. I WOULD like to think that after all this time, the younger generations would know by now what it does and wouldnt think to take it up.. If theyre gonna vape theyre gonna vape it, but I wont recommend or encourage it to someone whos never smoked before.. Last year I was working at a place where 3 of the guys were vapers, I was still on a pack of Pall Mall red 100s a day. I asked a couple of em about the basics, what would I need to get, how long did the nicotine last compared to my pack of smokes, etc.. NONE of them were of any help because they never smoked before. They just did it because it was the new 'thing to do'. Good for them if they want to kill themselves, but not so good for the reason it was intended, to get us off smoking, and it just baffled me why people that never wouldve taken up smoking to begin with decided, "Oh, well this must be cooler then". Guess thats just how the times have changed or something.
As it is, I saw something today that kinda affected the way I look at vaping, at least in regards to where I do it and who I do it around.. After almost a year Im down to only 6mg juice and this was kinda scary. Cats left us a 'present' this morning in the form of what was left of a dead bird in the grass near the front door of the house. By this afternoon there was a steady army of ants strolling along clearing it up for us.. Porch was covered with em where I sit outside and vape and me being the almost 40 still immature guy I am blew a couple huge vapes from my dripper on the swarm to get them away from me and my chair. Couple minutes later, I looked down and half the pile of ants were laying there dead on the tile. When I started vaping, I took it for granted as 'safe' and was allowed to do it in the house, in the car while driving everyone around, including my (now ex) girlfriends 13 year old kid in the car/house, etc.. Ive done stupid stuff like blow smoke at bugs and things before with cigarettes and never seen the poisonous carbon monoxide smoke from an exhale kill insects like that (but yes we all know what that does to US over time so imagine my shock at a 'safe' vape exhale taking out a colony of black ants in a matter of minutes). After today I dont think Ill be vaping in the house ever again, even when no ones home. Or doing it while driving around with anyone in my car or whatnot. When Im in the house I cant go anywhere without my 2 cats or my little kitten HAVING to be with me, or at the kittens preference sleeping in my lap, and that just really freaked me out thinking of all the times Ive been vaping while shes been laying there on me while I was watching tv not even concerned with the clouds I was blowing out. Its a good thing I dont have kids of my own or I probably wouldve gone into a total panic hah.
