10 sats \ 3 replies \ @AJ1992 18 Feb \ on: What do you think about governments banning or taxing tobacco? libertarian
The government will never ban tobacco as a whole. Zero chance the big tobacco lobby let's that happen. As a smoker myself, it's the flavored cigarettes, the Marlboro smooths which taste like mint chocolate chip ice cream that got me hooked at 15...so I am okay with that and am glad England did what they did as well. Vaping is actually worse for you if you do the proper research.
No, it is not. It’s not even close. Think about it for 30 seconds — nicotine + pg/vg + flavor is always going to be less harmful than burned plant material.
It’s food grade additives + insect poison, vs cancerous combusted carbon material + insect poison.
You can argue that it’s not harmless — but to say it is worse is just unscientific.
Stop burning tobacco.
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You have to factor in the fact that these kids can vape essentially anywhere and indoors and are also vaping non-stop and their nicotine intake is way way more. As smokers, we have to go outdoors, only smoke one at a time usually, and wait periods of time between cigarettes.
Also, I don't see smokers getting popcorn lung..🤷♂️
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Re the popcorn lung thing, that was due to tainted juice with diacetyl produced juice. Many years ago. It’s banned in regulated juices.
With vaping, the problem becomes a moral one to do with addiction — they can do it anywhere. So the problem is problem for addiction sake. Gets deep into authoritarianism.
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