Electronic Cigarettes: New Route to Smoking Addiction for Adolescents

[brett_jv]

97. Not even sure it's proven that nicotine alone will do those things ...

Be curious though if you have links to studies showing the harm to the CV system from nicotine alone w/o the 'tobacco smoke' components?

But you bring up decent point ... This last go-round, I was a smoker for 13 years (after having quit for about 15 years ... following having smoked from ages 14-18). I really enjoyed smokes. Liked the taste and smell and everything (not the smell on my fingers though). I took up vaping early last June. I immediately dropped from 20 'analogs' to 5 in ONE DAY, after 13 years of a pack a day.

Over the next two weeks, I steadily dropped my cig consumption to 1 a day the last couple days. Since then, I vape only. However, I got stuck away from home (cancelled flight) on a trip a couple weeks back, and ran out of juice, so I had to bum a cigarette from someone at the hotel first thing in the AM ... my first analog in 6 months.

And I'm here to tell ya ... words cannot describe how ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING that cigarette was to me. I had like 3 hits, and then went to the front desk to find out where the nearest gas station was. I then walked a mile to get myself one of the disposable 'e-cig' thingies to tide me over til I got home. I've had NO more tobacco, and only became MORE convinced that I'll never go back to smoking from the experience. That is, of course, unless they ban vaping entirely, or jack the cost up so that it costs 3x as much.

What does this suggest to us about how that person who got 'started' on e-cigs (still seen 0 evidence there is even a SINGLE such person IN THE WORLD, but lets say there were) would react to actually smoking a 'real' cig for the first time? I mean, I LIKED cigs before ... someone who's never had one EVER, but got started with vaping? I would bet you some would end up puking ... in any case, they'd almost certainly quickly put it down in disgust, and never have another.

I don't need 'studies' from these hacks who ask only the 'questions' that will 'prove' the conclusions they're predisposed to presenting to the public ... they ain't gonna convince me that what I see and hear and feel every day isn't true.

Aside from keeping minors from buying the nicotine, the 'government' just needs to keep their dirty hands OFF the vaping movement. It's going to save millions of lives, and will cost NONE.