Electronic cigarettes lack smoke but not addiction
Quote regarding vaping as an alternative to smoking:
There are no benefits whatsoever. You are still getting nicotine in the form of a cigarette, she said. It even looks like a normal cigarette so the psychological addiction of still holding a cigarette would be there.
Electronic cigarettes lack smoke but not addiction | panama, addiction, smoke - News - The News Herald
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(Disclaimer: I am in no way anti-Christian, or against any other religious/spiritual faith. Rather, I seek to understand, so that effective counter arguments can be constructed. I do NOT think most anti-smoking zealots are doing it out of a duty to the Christian faith. Rather, anti-smoking IS their religion.)
Most Christians Think Smoking Is A Sin
"Out of 2,400 Christians that responded to the survey, 59% stated that smoking is sinful,..."
Most Christians Think Smoking Is A Sin
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As infuriating and DANGEROUS as this strange, puritanical attitude is (it is literally threatening our lives), I think it needs to be examined more fully.
(ahem)
We are up against a particularly rotten branch of the temperance crusade. Vapers are taking away their self-appointed mission to banish the "sin" of the *act* of smoking from the Earth. They do not want to learn about the relative benefits of vaping, as it would undermine their calling. Indeed, by vaping, rather than smoking, we are doing them harm. They are losing their mission; we are taking away their path to moral salvation. On a strictly visceral level, vapers are *attacking* them, too, by taking away their principal source of schadenfreude.
It is no wonder the anti-smoking crusade clings to such vehement willful, dedicated ignorance, and outright intellectual dishonesty, in regards vaping.
[climbs off soapbox]
Quote regarding vaping as an alternative to smoking:
There are no benefits whatsoever. You are still getting nicotine in the form of a cigarette, she said. It even looks like a normal cigarette so the psychological addiction of still holding a cigarette would be there.
Electronic cigarettes lack smoke but not addiction | panama, addiction, smoke - News - The News Herald
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(Disclaimer: I am in no way anti-Christian, or against any other religious/spiritual faith. Rather, I seek to understand, so that effective counter arguments can be constructed. I do NOT think most anti-smoking zealots are doing it out of a duty to the Christian faith. Rather, anti-smoking IS their religion.)
Most Christians Think Smoking Is A Sin
"Out of 2,400 Christians that responded to the survey, 59% stated that smoking is sinful,..."
Most Christians Think Smoking Is A Sin
_______________________________________________________
As infuriating and DANGEROUS as this strange, puritanical attitude is (it is literally threatening our lives), I think it needs to be examined more fully.
(ahem)
We are up against a particularly rotten branch of the temperance crusade. Vapers are taking away their self-appointed mission to banish the "sin" of the *act* of smoking from the Earth. They do not want to learn about the relative benefits of vaping, as it would undermine their calling. Indeed, by vaping, rather than smoking, we are doing them harm. They are losing their mission; we are taking away their path to moral salvation. On a strictly visceral level, vapers are *attacking* them, too, by taking away their principal source of schadenfreude.
It is no wonder the anti-smoking crusade clings to such vehement willful, dedicated ignorance, and outright intellectual dishonesty, in regards vaping.
[climbs off soapbox]
