• DreamButt@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yeah except smoking rates have increased since the invention of vapes. It if was strickly people smoking cigarettes swapping to vapes then maybe we could call it a success

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 hours ago

      I think people might smoke more in total because people are stressed out more?

      I don’t have a study on this, but from my personal environment, i can attest that people seem to be more stressed-out, and more worried, about work and wages than 20 years ago. But i could be wrong here. Maybe it’s just that i’m getting older and paying more attention to these things now.

      Anyways, “more stress” would explain why people smoke more. To many, it seems to have a stress-relieving functionality, at the cost of long-term health disadvantages.

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      20 hours ago

      I admit I don’t see people vaping as a major problem. The harm is not so severe that it overcomes my inclination to let people make their own choices. This is especially so when the harm is not intrinsic to the act but rather the result of contamination.

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        16 hours ago

        You can always count on the tobacco companies massive corporations to turn a useful tool into something evil.