off-topic Vaping

[Pete Griffin]

I found out that both of my kids have been vaping. Inhaling fruity flavours. The crazy thing is that nobody in our family has ever smoked cigarettes and I'm sure neither of them have ever smoked. I imagine they have probably tried it as all kids do!

I've been looking online at the dangers of it, but there is no concrete answer on whether it is really bad for you. Has anyone vaped and have you suffered any negatives from this? I'd like to go back with real examples of people who have vaped.

 

[Shawn]

I found out that both of my kids have been vaping. Inhaling fruity flavours. The crazy thing is that nobody in our family has ever smoked cigarettes and I'm sure neither of them have ever smoked. I imagine they have probably tried it as all kids do!

I've been looking online at the dangers of it, but there is no concrete answer on whether it is really bad for you. Has anyone vaped and have you suffered any negatives from this? I'd like to go back with real examples of people who have vaped.

If you can stop them, you should.

I vaped to quit smoking. Luckily, I quit vaping, too.

Vaping will put a film on your lungs. There is a lot of bad it can do to you. If you've never smoked before, why start vaping?

If you can stop them -- I would or at least encourage them to quit.

Right after I quit, there was a surge of bad e-juice and it killed a bunch of people.

 

[Alamson]

I found out that both of my kids have been vaping. Inhaling fruity flavours. The crazy thing is that nobody in our family has ever smoked cigarettes and I'm sure neither of them have ever smoked. I imagine they have probably tried it as all kids do!

I've been looking online at the dangers of it, but there is no concrete answer on whether it is really bad for you. Has anyone vaped and have you suffered any negatives from this? I'd like to go back with real examples of people who have vaped.

I am surprised because people vape to help them stop smoking. I do not understand why they have to vape. I have never vaped but I have heard a few bad things about it. In addition, it can be addictive- that is why you need to have a conversation with them. If they can understand why it is bad for them, they may willingly stop.

 

[Shortie]

I have never vaped or smoked in my life but I know my eldest tried vaping but I found out about it, he was only about 13/14 years old when he tried and I told him that I did not approve and warned he would be punished if I found out he did it again, he is now 21 and has never tried again.

My brother vaped for a while to quit smoking and now he is completely smoke free.

I know there are some health issues around vaping, one I have heard is popcorn lung which I know has caught a few kids who have vaped to be cool.

 

[Pete Griffin]

I am surprised because people vape to help them stop smoking.

That was how it began, sure, but fruity flavours are appealing to kids. I know they are introducing / have introduced legislation here in the UK to prevent the spread of disposable vapes but technology moves faster than governments and every time they introduce or amend a law, the vape producing companies find a loophole.

 

[Yama]

When I was in my late teens and early 20s, I sometimes smoked, usually when I was in parties, clubs among friends, but I was never as habituated smoker. I have never used Vape. I have not even seen how it actually looks in real

 

[Lord Severus]

Vaping is perhaps even more dangerous than smoking (and that doesnot means it safe to smoke).

The literature is very clear about vaping and its dangers because the liquid they use is 'concentrated' rather than the diluted versions we have in conventional cigarettes.

Here is the WHO advisory: https://www.who.int/news-room/quest...rettes dangerous?,to the aerosols second-hand.

 

[Harsh World]

I was a habitual smoker in my late teens/early 20s, smoking up to 2 packs of Newports a day. Fortunately for me, I don't get addicted. So, as soon as I saw the price go from $4.50 a pack to just over $10 a pack when I got back to my home state, I was able to quit the next day.

I went a couple of years before picking it up again, and it was just out of pure boredom. I got a smoke break, so if I didn't smoke, I didn't get a break. Better to shoot the shit during a smoke break than do work on the clock.

Then I was introduced to vaping when I went back to the States in 2014ish. So many different models to choose from, and I got a pretty neat one. And, the juices: From all flavors to different heavy vapors or lighter vapors. I was hooked on 10mg+ bottles and puffing it all day long.

It was kind of hard to vape when I got back to Japan because, let me tell you, the vape juice out of China killed you. I couldn't puff but once.

Luckily, there was an "underground lab" here that made some, but they were frequently out, which probably led to me quitting vaping altogether. The laws prohibited the Japanese from competing. The way that this lab would get around it was to "mix the main vape ingredients at their place" and then dose the straight nicotine "on an American installation", a very fine grey area, which eventually got clamped down on.