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People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

248 points · 335 comments · alephnerd

dasKrokodil · 1790061745 · focus · HN ↗
A while back I saw this on reddit... in case you don't want to click the link, it's a picture of a cigarette with the caption "This plant-based alternative promises to help high schoolers stop vaping".
I would have never thought that people would be stupid enough to try this for real, but here we are...
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ffinally-i-can-get-my-friends-to-stop-vaping-v0-kullhw8l224h1.jpeg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D5b429d24bfe7cb66608ba3677ab4c8477ded1b72" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
1. thin_carapace · 1790122043 · focus · HN ↗
  while tobacco is indeed more viscerally addictive than vaporized nicotine, i still believe it is wrong to label the act of switching from vapes to cigs as blanket stupidity. a cigarette has a defined start and end point around which the brain may optimize, while vapes have no off switch. from the outside in, it may be difficult to see that this factor may weigh in significantly ... so ill bolster my point by suggesting tobacco is a valid method to control schizophrenia symptoms, i dont believe that high dose nic vapes have the same effect.
  1. busymom0 · 1790131036 · focus · HN ↗
    People are even vaping on public transit nowadays. Never seen that for smoking.
    astura · 1790156907 · focus · HN ↗
    Smoking on public transit (and literally everywhere else too) was totally normal and common up until the 90s when regulations started to trickle in. When I was in elementary school teachers smoked in the teacher's lounge and would talk about when they used to be able to smoke in the classroom. My grandma would take about smoking while at work, and she worked as a seamstress.

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