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(53,925 posts)big tobacco insisting it was safe.
big tobacco insisting we could never prove that any particular person ever died from cigarettes because lung cancer sometimes happens to non-smokers.
big tobacco fighting regulation every step of the way.
big tobacco trying to get kids hooked before they have a sense of their own mortality or appreciate how powerful addiction can be.
big tobacco encouraging the notion that smoking equates to freedom and anyone asking you to smoke elsewhere is infringing on your freedom.
and now it's the same crap all over again.
and they insist that it's all so completely different because hey, it's not "smoking". so they insist we have to start over from scratch and spend the next half century studying a "completely different" mechanism for heating up a somewhat different mix of carcinogens and toxins and sending them directly into your lungs, as if we'll then find a completely different result.
and in the meanwhile, vapers feel empowered to completely ignore no smoking signs because hey, it's not "smoking".
is it "safer" than smoking cigarettes? maybe, maybe not, but it is in no way "safe", so i don't really care if it's less lethal.
my 13-year old son is getting inundated with messages about how "cool" vaping is and how "safe" it is and it's beyond ridiculous. inhaling hot carcinogens and toxins is just plain f*cking stupid.
lungs are delicate and sensitive and evolved to be suitable to a careful mix of primarily nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. vaping is on its face a very bad idea.
to the extent that someone uses vaping as a *temporary* step to go from cigarettes to nothing, it may have a certain limited utility. but that is not at all the messages my son is getting about what vaping is all about.
it's *not* primarily marketed as a temporary part of a smoking cessation program.