These stories remind me of my sister... two full-time vapers in the immediate family and she still insists there's no point in switching if she can just quit. It seems to me she's still suspicious that addiction to nicotine is harmful in and of itself (thank you for that, popular opinion...). So she quits over and over, and starts up again over and over. The last time she "quit" she only smoked when she drank, and then only when she was stressed out, and now she smokes full time again... my mom keeps pushing her to use her vaporizer instead of smoking but it hasn't caught on yet
Let me get this straight:
The lady is a smoker, i.e. she inhales tobacco smoke. Which contains nicotine plus a lot of harmful substances.
People smoke for nicotine but they die from the tar. (
Professor Michael Russell, 1976)
Now, she considers consuming nicotine harmful - even if it is consumed
without the tar and the other harmful substances in tobacco smoke.
Thus, she prefers to smoke on and off, and to consume the nicotine
with the tar and the other harmful substances in tobacco smoke when she does consume it.
Which she frequently does. And now does full time again.
Now, I am not going to say what I think of this. After all, the lady is your sister
But I do agree: "thank you for that, popular opinion..." This is precisely what the ANTZ are trying to achieve: continued smoking.
After all, according to those who make their money off the smoking gravy train: "nicotine is oh-so-harmful if consumed by itself. So you might as well smoke"
Uhm....
Say, would using an e-cig "once in a while" be an option?
/edit:
Quote from the a.m. source:
In 1976 Professor Michael Russell wrote: “People smoke for nicotine but they die from the tar.”
Indeed, the harm from smoking is caused primarily through the toxins produced by the burning of
tobacco. By contrast, non-tobacco, non-smoked nicotine products, although addictive, are considerably
less harmful.
Electronic cigarettes consequently represent a safer alternative to cigarettes for smokers who are
unable or unwilling to stop using nicotine.
.....
Most of the diseases associated with smoking are caused by inhaling smoke which contains
thousands of toxic chemicals. By contrast, nicotine is relatively safe. Electronic cigarettes, which
deliver nicotine without the harmful toxins found in tobacco smoke, are a safer alternative to smoking.
And this source is not an e-cig publication.
Instead, it is
ASH UK, the Action on Smoking and Health.
Is is one of the few public health organizations who managed to get their heads out of their backsides and now embrace harm reduction.