Some people need to learn more about vaping...
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Next time someone starts talking crap about vaping, take a folding chair and beat them with it. That will show them you are not to be messed with...wait. Sorry, that's what you are supposed to do the first day in prison. My bad.
Dr. Sues would be ok with vaping, he had a very dark side that would surprise a lot of people.
Madame Meghan et al notwithstanding, I shall proceed into the wilds of Halloween wearing my Kat in a hat costumie. And I shall apologize to no one and shall opine the benies of vape to anyone and everyone who will listen. If I get the "OH NO, IT'S STILL SMOKING!!!!!" rhetoric, I'll go on my merry way and dance the nite away as planned.
And wodka.... lots.
Two weeks ago, I was on holiday in Italy. At a restaurant with a bunch of acquaintances, at one time a smoking party forms and walk outside, I join them.
Once outside, everybody lit up a cigarette, I pull my vape - Therion 75c with a Triton mini - and I got told by one of the smokers, "That thing is worse than cigarettes for you".
I am always open at different opinions, but I was at discomfort due to how abrupt and strong was.
So I reacted on the verge of impoliteness, "It is not true", I said in a very dry manner, and kept vaping in silence.
Some other time I try to explain how public opinion has been twarted by media, just for people to react badly for having associated them to a general trend; everybody feel absolutely unique.
What to say. Unicuique suum...
Once outside, everybody lit up a cigarette, I pull my vape - Therion 75c with a Triton mini - and I got told by one of the smokers, "That thing is worse than cigarettes for you".
I am always open at different opinions, but I was at discomfort due to how abrupt and strong was.
So I reacted on the verge of impoliteness, "It is not true", I said in a very dry manner, and kept vaping in silence.
Some other time I try to explain how public opinion has been twarted by media, just for people to react badly for having associated them to a general trend; everybody feel absolutely unique.
What to say. Unicuique suum...
Every conversation about it requires an individual approach if your aim is to have a meaningful discussion. But more and more Im becoming plain dismissive and just moving on.
Life is pretty short.
Some/most people are not worth the time and effort to discuss vaping with, there is no point or worthwhile reason to bother.
If someone asks me about vaping from a genuinely open and inquisitive point of view I will enter in to it and share the positive aspects of quitting smoking and how vaping helped and if theyre really curious after that I might offer them a set up and some juice to try for a few weeks so they can see if its something that might work for them.
Life is pretty short.
Some/most people are not worth the time and effort to discuss vaping with, there is no point or worthwhile reason to bother.
If someone asks me about vaping from a genuinely open and inquisitive point of view I will enter in to it and share the positive aspects of quitting smoking and how vaping helped and if theyre really curious after that I might offer them a set up and some juice to try for a few weeks so they can see if its something that might work for them.
The last 2 decades have confused me deeply.
On the one hand, "information" as a public good, after having been a sparse resource and a partisan privilege throughout human history, is now available to (almost) everyone on the planet. If you want to be informed about a topic, you can freely and correctly inform yourself about it - it's the 1 big thing that the internet has changed for all of us.
But at the same, it has also become clear that "willful ignorance" is so omni-present that it is probably part of the human condition itself.
Once you've been part of a people who're intimately familiar with a particular topic, and you've witnessed deliberate misinformation campaigns by media and politics, and the greater public consequently holding on to false beliefs about that topic in a remarkably stubborn manner, it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that most people (including myself) are not just unknowing, but wildly ignorant or deluded about most issues. And while we're somewhat semi-conscious of this circumstance, we don't really do anything about it. Plus, with the ever-growing amount of things-to-know out there, that problem is only going to get worse.
That makes me wonder what kind of future lies ahead of us. Maybe this is even a part of the "Great Filter" which futurologists are suspecting could lead to our demise as a species.
In any case, "may we live in interesting times".
On the one hand, "information" as a public good, after having been a sparse resource and a partisan privilege throughout human history, is now available to (almost) everyone on the planet. If you want to be informed about a topic, you can freely and correctly inform yourself about it - it's the 1 big thing that the internet has changed for all of us.
But at the same, it has also become clear that "willful ignorance" is so omni-present that it is probably part of the human condition itself.
Once you've been part of a people who're intimately familiar with a particular topic, and you've witnessed deliberate misinformation campaigns by media and politics, and the greater public consequently holding on to false beliefs about that topic in a remarkably stubborn manner, it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that most people (including myself) are not just unknowing, but wildly ignorant or deluded about most issues. And while we're somewhat semi-conscious of this circumstance, we don't really do anything about it. Plus, with the ever-growing amount of things-to-know out there, that problem is only going to get worse.
That makes me wonder what kind of future lies ahead of us. Maybe this is even a part of the "Great Filter" which futurologists are suspecting could lead to our demise as a species.
In any case, "may we live in interesting times".
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I thought it was microwaves stripping each and every micron of vitamins from the food? LOL. My dad said they experimented using microwaves for heat and that the technology only worked when everyone was naked. Something to do with the clothes getting in the way of agitating the cells in your body, causing heat.
The man was a PhD scientist, but he also had a habit of coming out with little "explanations" like that, total bull and all. I never researched it because it sounded sketchy and more fun to play along anyway.
I am watching, and learning, about the various ways to approach the "Vape is worse than mace in your face crowd, though." Always good to have many stratagems.
Anna
The man was a PhD scientist, but he also had a habit of coming out with little "explanations" like that, total bull and all. I never researched it because it sounded sketchy and more fun to play along anyway.
I am watching, and learning, about the various ways to approach the "Vape is worse than mace in your face crowd, though." Always good to have many stratagems.
Anna
When I told a friend I'd stopped smoking and was vaping he told me how bad it was for my respiratory system as he proceeded to light up a cigarette 
He he he... I used to smoke but now i've found this product that is so much more harmful than smoking. Vape.
All real men (and women if they so wish) should switch and embrace the daredevil. Popcorn lung, exploding batteries, poison ingredients, drip tips made of kitten ears...
When anyone comes out with the 'worse than cigarettes' line i have to ask myself "does this person think i'm an idiot" ?
All real men (and women if they so wish) should switch and embrace the daredevil. Popcorn lung, exploding batteries, poison ingredients, drip tips made of kitten ears...
When anyone comes out with the 'worse than cigarettes' line i have to ask myself "does this person think i'm an idiot" ?
So was mine. He’s where I got my questionable sense of humor. His profanity though was always remarkably inventive
Sometimes a shake of the head, roll of the eyes, and a muted chuckle is suffice for telling them "your an idiot and this conversation is over before it began".
It matters little about what you do/don't do in life as some will always be in opposition even having zero facts that support their suppositions (the subject does not matter). Vaping is no different.
I couldn't have passed up the chance to ask him, "Would you rather I went back to smoking?". My doctor has been fine with my vaping since 2009. As long as I don't use combustible tobacco he's happy. I'd look around for a vape friendly doctor who agrees that it's a benign activity for a former smoker..
Meh, don't really care what the old fart thinks. I only see him once a year for my DOT mandated physical. Which is his specialty. I'll stay with him because he DOES understand the DOT requirements. I've had trouble before with doctors who will do the physical but then fail me for reasons that DOT don't give a rats .... about.
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