If you needed yet another reason to quit smoking, here it is.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    there’s a lot more people quitting smoking than there are picking up vaping

    Sadly, in Australia, this isn’t the case. We had very, very low smoking rates, and vaping has opened up the floodgates to new nicotine addicts, many, many of which never even tried cigarettes.

    I’m pretty annoyed about it, to be honest.

    Another generation who will reap the rewards of cancer, which will be a massive cost to society. Financially and emotionally.

    I really hope we can stem the tide.

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      I can’t claim to know the future, or more than doctors have described, but it really does seem that vaping is much better for your health compared to cigarettes.

      You can feel it. Once you get used to vaping it doesn’t hurt at all. Meanwhile, after smoking for essentially my entire adult life, if I smoke too many I’ll feel it hard the next day.

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        2 days ago

        I’m not claiming they’re the same as cigarettes. Just that if they hadn’t come along, a huge number of people (in Australia) may never have picked up a nicotine addiction at all.

        And that’s a shame :(