• allywilson@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    They’re advertising alt-cigarette products, right? Probably from their parent companies alt subsidiary.

    I vaguely remember in the '90s they used to have slips like that in the UK. Can’t remember if it was advertising or things like “Collect 100 of these tokens, get a 20 pack for free!”

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      11 months ago

      Yeah it says “Heats real tobacco, doesn’t burn” so probably a vape. The big cigarette companies have all bought up companies in the vaping industry in the last years.

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        11 months ago

        That would be false marketing, then. The reason why vapes are much less unhealthy (still unhealthy and wouldn’t recommend them for anything except temporary use to quit smoking) than cigarettes is that they DON’T contain tobacco!

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          11 months ago

          That ad doesn’t make any health claims tho. Or am I missing context here?

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            11 months ago

            You’re right, I’m just disspelling a common misconception about regular vapes and including why it’s significant.

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          11 months ago

          There’s a big difference between “heated” and “burnt” tobacco. Same as with weed vaporization vs smoking, vaporization is much healthier compared to inhaling burnt plant material.

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            11 months ago

            True, but e-juice still isn’t and doesn’t contain tobacco, is my point.

            The ad might be for another kind of vape that DOES use tobacco, which would still be MUCH more unhealthy than e-juice even without the burning.