The public won't be able to confirm this until long term studies are done. The pharmacuetical companies don't want this to happen, thats why they are paying politicians (mostly republicans) & lobbyists to push through regulations &/or the outlawing of all ecig circumstances.
Please add your voices to opposing any regulation or outlawing of vapor-based nicotine products or use of same!
Forgive my poor use of english or spelling. I wrote this in haste, as I am very passionate on the subject!
I don't want to start something, but please don't make this about political parties. "Republicans" have nothing to do with it...nor do democrats. It all comes down to money. All parties, whether they be republican, democrat, independent, tea party, libertarian, etc have their fare share of money grubbers with an interest in big tobacco or pharmaceuticals. All parties have their fare share of smokers that support big tobacco or pharm companies. Heck, I've quit smoking, but I will still supports smokers' rights and tobacco companies rights to produce their product....just like I will support someone's right to drink, or eat fast food, or LEGALLY own firearms. Why, you ask? Because freedom to do that stuff is the reason America was founded. There are plenty of countries that are ruled with iron fists, and we don't need America to become another one.
With that said, I will not pressure friends and family into switching from smoking to vaping. I will, instead, lead them by example...and let them make the choice on their own. The worst thing I EVER encountered as a smoker...was an EX-smoker who just thought that everyone needed to quit since they quit.
Would you have not smoked if he hid it from you? Do you really think he'd have been able to do that? What would you have thought if he had tried to hide it and you found out?
If kids will do what those they love and trust do, then they'll believe what those they love and trust tell them. So take advantage of that. No kid wants to disappoint his hero. But when they hit a certain age, they don't try to emulate you. Pleasing their peers is more important. If you've done your job, instead of hiding your vices, they'll know what is harmful or not and won't be as likely to hurt themselves for the sake of peer approval.
My father smoked, but it had absolutely nothing to do with my smoking. I started smoking when I was 13 and I wouldn't have cared if my father ever smoked a day in his life. I did a lot of stuff my father never did, at least not that I know of. I think parents overestimate their influence on what their children do once they hit a certain age. Once their in their teens, your influence by example turns to influence by coercion. You've either molded their character by then or it's too late. Personally, I loved my father dearly, but when I hit 13 or so, he was the last person I wanted to be like. Not because he was bad or a loser or anything other than the fact that he was my father.
Well said...
By the time I was 16, my dad had been smoking for 35 years, had bad circulation problems, vascular surgeries, lost toes on both feet, and eventually lost his left leg just below the knee. While the doctors finally diagnosed him with diabetes two years AFTER all of that, his current doctor states that he had PAD due mostly to his smoking...and that was why he was losing limbs. He continued to smoke despite all of that. Then, when I was 19, he had a heart attack and a minor stroke. He finally quit smoking 10 years later, and has been smoke free for 2 1/2 years so far.
The sad thing about all of that? I started smoking after he lost his leg...even after listening to his surgeon say "if you keep smoking, you're going to lose your other leg".
Moral of the story... I didn't take up smoking because my pop smoked, because I had already seen what it did to him. Instead, I started smoking because I started hanging out with a hot girl that smoked. I started smoking long after age of my parent's influence was even a factor anymore.