Hi Guys
This post is going to be a bit of a rant, please forgive me.
I try to read just about anything about e-cigarettes and vaping I can find on the Internet and I'm sure most of you do too. What gets my back up is the amount of garbage that makes it into the public domain. The sad thing is that people who don't have the brains or guts to make up their own minds about something then latches on to the opinions of these self-proclaimed "experts" and all of a sudden they know everything. Here are a few things I feel really strongly about.
If I see the question "can e-cigarettes help you quit smoking" one more time I'm going to puke. And then they argue that it actually can't or that it is not really effective. These "experts" seem to argue over these things in their own little universe, to me it looks like they don't even bother to speak to the only people who can actually answer this question with some credibility, the vapers themselves. We are all here because vaping brought us here and like me I am sure most of you either quitted smoking completely or cut down dramatically. What more is there to know? But that is not what these idiots want to hear. These days when I read something the first thing I do is to try and work out what vested interest this particular idiot has. It is usually in a tobacco company (they hate vaping because they are loosing millions of clients), the government (they don't want you to stop smoking because of the revenue they earn), a pharmaceutical company (vaping massively undermines the sale of NRT's like gum and patches which are expensive and failed miserably in getting people off tobacco) or some health organization that, despite their claims, don't care about the health of smokers. Like the WHO. Why are they so against vaping? If they were serious about the worldwide health risks of smoking they would be seen handing an electronic cigarette to every smoker on the planet. Let's face it: vaping is the only thing that got most of us off cigarettes.
And how about this one: "are e-cigarettes safe?" Vomit, vomit, vomit. At this point it looks like it is 99% safer than tabacco. As a smoker I by default accepted the massive risks associated with smoking. Do they really think I'm going to loose sleep over the 1%? My body thanks be every day for vaping instead of smoking and that's good enough for me. Subject closed.
Then there is this whole thing about vaping making smoking attractive to young people. Smoking is attractive to young people anyway but the "experts" don't want to hear that either. I started smoking well below the legal age because I thought smoking was cool. 30 years later and I still think smoking is cool. What's not cool is what it did to my health and it certainly is very uncool to see someone die from a smoking related illness. Kids will experiment with smoking and vaping whether these "experts" like it not. My son is 11 and he knows he is welcome to start vaping whenever he wants. I'll set him up with a decent mod and make sure his tanks stay full. Why? Because, just like me, he will probably also at some point think smoking is cool and I would much rather see him vape than smoke. He will be much cooler than his smoking buddies because instead of blowing a tiny little bit of smoke from a burning, stinking cigarette he will be enjoying a really tasty juice and blow massive clouds. Suddenly the cigarette looks a bit last century, doesn't it?
What I love about all of this is to see how irritated these so-called experts are that we invented a smoking alternative that works. Without the tobacco industry, the pharmaceutical companies, governments or health organizations. We managed to do something they failed at miserably and they hate our guts for that.
Anyway, rant over.
Cheers!
This post is going to be a bit of a rant, please forgive me.
I try to read just about anything about e-cigarettes and vaping I can find on the Internet and I'm sure most of you do too. What gets my back up is the amount of garbage that makes it into the public domain. The sad thing is that people who don't have the brains or guts to make up their own minds about something then latches on to the opinions of these self-proclaimed "experts" and all of a sudden they know everything. Here are a few things I feel really strongly about.
If I see the question "can e-cigarettes help you quit smoking" one more time I'm going to puke. And then they argue that it actually can't or that it is not really effective. These "experts" seem to argue over these things in their own little universe, to me it looks like they don't even bother to speak to the only people who can actually answer this question with some credibility, the vapers themselves. We are all here because vaping brought us here and like me I am sure most of you either quitted smoking completely or cut down dramatically. What more is there to know? But that is not what these idiots want to hear. These days when I read something the first thing I do is to try and work out what vested interest this particular idiot has. It is usually in a tobacco company (they hate vaping because they are loosing millions of clients), the government (they don't want you to stop smoking because of the revenue they earn), a pharmaceutical company (vaping massively undermines the sale of NRT's like gum and patches which are expensive and failed miserably in getting people off tobacco) or some health organization that, despite their claims, don't care about the health of smokers. Like the WHO. Why are they so against vaping? If they were serious about the worldwide health risks of smoking they would be seen handing an electronic cigarette to every smoker on the planet. Let's face it: vaping is the only thing that got most of us off cigarettes.
And how about this one: "are e-cigarettes safe?" Vomit, vomit, vomit. At this point it looks like it is 99% safer than tabacco. As a smoker I by default accepted the massive risks associated with smoking. Do they really think I'm going to loose sleep over the 1%? My body thanks be every day for vaping instead of smoking and that's good enough for me. Subject closed.
Then there is this whole thing about vaping making smoking attractive to young people. Smoking is attractive to young people anyway but the "experts" don't want to hear that either. I started smoking well below the legal age because I thought smoking was cool. 30 years later and I still think smoking is cool. What's not cool is what it did to my health and it certainly is very uncool to see someone die from a smoking related illness. Kids will experiment with smoking and vaping whether these "experts" like it not. My son is 11 and he knows he is welcome to start vaping whenever he wants. I'll set him up with a decent mod and make sure his tanks stay full. Why? Because, just like me, he will probably also at some point think smoking is cool and I would much rather see him vape than smoke. He will be much cooler than his smoking buddies because instead of blowing a tiny little bit of smoke from a burning, stinking cigarette he will be enjoying a really tasty juice and blow massive clouds. Suddenly the cigarette looks a bit last century, doesn't it?
What I love about all of this is to see how irritated these so-called experts are that we invented a smoking alternative that works. Without the tobacco industry, the pharmaceutical companies, governments or health organizations. We managed to do something they failed at miserably and they hate our guts for that.
Anyway, rant over.
Cheers!
and she told me that is was confiscated from one of the learners who was smoking in class.
