I didn’t have grandkids until I started vaping, now 3...
Could it be?
@Racehorse , I agree with your sentiment and am sorry to hear about your neighbors kid, hoping for the best in their case. It is funny, however, that people are quick to blame vaping and not (in my case) 27+ years of smoking beforehand.
Those grandkids though...
Congrats on your grandchildren! Enjoy them!!!
I agree that people will "blame stuff" on whatever is convenient to their "idealogy" sometimes.
Personallly, I try not to "politicize" my health. It's too valuable to sacrafice to any kind of agenda. I try to keep an open mind and do what my intuition tells me is good for ME.
I think everyone should do that. I don't tell other people how to live when it comes to their health. I am older and I know I shouldn't eat fattening stuff, but heck, I ENJOY my 2x a month ice cream cone with the high fat content, and I'm going to keep eating them, even though I know I can be more disciplined w/my diet.
But I also think it's not appropriate to discount other people's experiences. If somebody says x,y,z happened to them, then I let them be. I have no agenda that I need to "put" on other people, even though I have very strong beliefs for MYSELF (i.e, I like organic food, clean simpler personal care products, etc.) but I don't tell other people what to use or do. I think allowing others to do what they want is part of respecting others.
And yes, I agree that we are not being respected as vapers...not respected for the choice we make.
But I'm not a proseletizer type.........if somebody asks me what I eat, if I vape, or what I put in my hair, I will share it. If they don't ask, I don't push it on them and I have no real inclination to tell others how to live. If THEY want to improve their life, then they will eventually find a way to do that, right?
I hate it when people give me sermons about all the things i should be doing, esp. the MLM marketer/salespeople who are always trying to sell me supplements, vitamins, special foot baths, hemp oil WHATEVER!
I *did* personally feel that smoking was very bad and that when I got some colon cancer that had to be cut out I just decided it was possibly smoking related, so I started vaping. These are all personal decisions!