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In reply to the discussion: Old tobacco playbook gets new use by e-cigarettes [View all]Tyhanna
(145 posts)Nicotine does not cause heart disease.
http://www.ecigarette-research.com/web/index.php/research/95-effects-of-electronic-cigarette-use-on-myocardial-function
Kids will smoke whether we what them to or not. All threw time kids have experimented with all kinds of things including smoking, peer pressure, rebellion, or just because.
They are marketed to smokers plain and simple. To get people away from smoking where NTRs have not worked for them. And there are those that don't want to quit smoking.
The e-cig community work every day to get people off smoking introducing them to the e-cig and vaping. We work all the time to get people away from cigarettes and educate those that don't understand. We are condemned all the time for doing the right thing and leaving cigarettes. We are punished by having to stand with the smokers, where we don't want second hand smoke, we are non-smokers now and don't want all that going into our lungs anymore but nobody thinks about that because we are just the skurg because we did smoke.
Well I don't want to be around people that use alcohol and smell their breath, worry about if they are going to drive and who they are going to kill. But alcohol and all its fun flavors are ok? And the marketing in stores with bright colors and fun use of animals is not targeting kids? No that is ok because alcohol has been normalized and everyone has to have their 5 o'clock cocktail. Parents don't think twice about letting their children have caffeine, but caffeine has the same or worse side effect as nicotine. Nicotine is about the same in its addictiveness as caffeine when without burning tobacco and all the chemicals and MAOI that is present in tobacco.
The e-cig is no different than using the Nicotrol inhaler. No one would say a word to someone using one of them in public and exhaling the vapor from them. Or what about that person using gum or lozenges that have nicotine on the breath all the time. The gum and lozenges come In fun flavors but you don't see kids running down and using them.