Cultural assimilation

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Cultural assimilation - Lemmy.World

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Vapers minding their own business, pretending vaping is healthier.
Pretending? I’m not gonna say vaping is healthy, but it definitely isn’t as bad for you as cigarettes. I made the switch years ago just because I wanted to see if I could stop smoking cigarettes, and within the first week or two my lungs felt noticeably better. I’ve been gradually lowering the nicotine level in the juices I use and will hopefully ween myself off vaping too.

This is the right way to vape.
Should be used as a way to quit smoking.

People that vape as an alternative to smoking cigarettes end up chain vaping. It’s just too convenient.

It’s what it was advertised as originally, but then brands realized they could boom in sales by dropping that act and making cute, colorful cartridges with a shit ton of flavors that appeal to teens. Some girl had these iPod case looking ones that were flavored like pineapple banana or smth. Hell they make vapes disguised as school supplies now.

There’s a lot of people who didn’t do drugs at all that started with vaping (Truth Initiative has a 2020 study about it, I skimmed it tbh), and it’s especially bad in middle and high schools. I saw people hitting huge fucking clouds in the middle of a classroom, near the teacher’s desk. One idiot made a cloud in our dark classroom with the curtains shining sunlight on him, so they had to close the blinds and fan the cloud so he wouldn’t get caught.

They know full well they’re creating future addicts and eventual cigarette smokers, and they don’t give a damn.

Young people who vape are more likely to become smokers

Findings from a new Truth Initiative study reveal that young people who had ever used e-cigarettes had seven times higher odds of becoming smokers one year later compared with those who had never vaped.

Truth Initiative

The Netflix doc also covers how Juul hired the wrong guy to do thier commercials.

He’s the dude famous for making the iPod pastel silhouette commercials. Hip and sexy.

Juul started by wanting to help people quit. Then some influencer was vaping on stream and it blew the hell up in short order amongst younger crowds.