In recent months, vaping has grown increasing popular among a wide variety of users all over the country. Vaping, a close cousin of the typical cigarette, heats liquid nicotine with not as much of the tar and rat poison as regular cigarettes.
A recent study by the California Department of Health suggests “e-cigarettes emit cancer-causing chemicals and get users hooked on nicotine.”
Granted cancer causing chemicals into the air may sound scary, these effects are after prolonged use, not after you inhale once or twice as it passes you by on the street.
Vaping continues to grow rapidly among many age groups as well. A grave concern about this product is that it appeals to young children because it offers a wide variety of succulent flavors like Peaches and Cream and Orange Dreamsicle.
In recent ploys to target parents, many anti e-cigarette crusaders suggest that flavoring of tobacco products or vaping products appeal to young children, because we call know that adults don’t have taste buds and cravings for Pina Colada flavor once in a blue moon.
Another argument against vaping is that it leads to the smoking of actual cigarettes, the prolonged use ones that cause cancer and high blood pressure. It doesn’t take a scientist to know that cigarettes smell like crap, so why would people make a jump to smoking actual cigarettes when vaping essentially gives you the nicotine kick that you want and or need?
They wouldn’t. Unless they didn’t like the nicotine levels ingested with the vaping products.
A plus side to vaping is that it helps chronic smokers substitute cigarettes with the obvious less harmless side effects of e-cigarettes. But why does our government insist on making this a health crisis and worthy of a DEFCON III? Because of assumptions.
The whole world revolving vaping is so new to the community that people are still making sense of it, including our government. And what better way to make sense of it than by following our gut instincts that “smoke” is going to kill you. It’s not, just like not washing your hands after peeing isn’t either.
My beef isn’t with vaping itself, but the fact that California wants to ban vaping in public places just because there are assumptions that it might cause cancer and kill you. Or that your kids might like it because it’s flavored like the cereal they eat, which is probably worse for them.
I’d rather have this next generation addicted to vaping than cigarettes. I mean, it’s only nicotine. How many recorded nicotine deaths are there and how many cigarette induced deaths are there?
The effects of vaping are inconclusive, but our government insists on assuming that kids will get hooked, and I say so what. I’d rather have them suck back some Pina Colada than rat poison any day of the week.