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Alright. For those who don't already know who I am, my name is Dr. Howard Porter. I am the author of Mashiach, and many other boring academic pamphlets that no one here would have ever heard of. I am touted as a leading expert on metaphysics, esoterica, and the occult.
More relevant to this forum, I am a former smoker (yet never an anti-smoker), hardcore vaper, cloud fetishist, nicotine advocate, and all-around corrupter of youth.
This survey is for my own use, and nothing taken from it will be used against you, this forum, or our beloved hobby. I am 100% pro-vaping, pro-smoking, pro-nicotine, and anti-government. Hell, I'm even pro-youth vaping.
I don't know your real names, addresses, emails, or anything, yet I give you my real name and intention. (Is that enough disclosure, gang?)
Now, on to the questions:
A) Since nearly all vapers are former or current smokers, it's safe to assume you smoked before you vaped. The first part concerns smoking.
1) How old were you when you started smoking?
2) Did you dream or fantasize about smoking before you started?
3) Did you start for social reasons (acceptance, fitting in, peer pressure, rebelion), or for other reasons (erotic, sensual, spiritual, curiosity)?
4) Do you have a smoking fetish (whether watching others or eroticising your own smoking)?
5) Was there anyone in particular who inspired you to smoke? If so whom?
B) The next section is about vaping.
6) This one is a question of style, not purpose (i.e. flavour chaser is not an option): Are you primarily a "cloud chaser" or a "tootle puffer"?
7) If vaping had been available when you started smoking, would you have chosen vaping over smoking?
8) Only if you have quit smoking: Did you switch for health reasons alone, or for any other (non health related) reason at all?
C) the last part is about nicotine itself
9) have you ever looked into the overwhelming evidence of nicotine's positive effects on the brain?
The last one is kind of long, but please humour me, I beg you.
The story:
In the 1940s, three major tobacco companies began researching the addictiveness of tobacco. After their research was complete, all 3 companies followed different strategies. One company (B&W) began extracting and using liquid nicotine in their cigarettes, and their sales increased a little. The second (RJR) began using higher nicotine yielding tobaccos, and their sales increased a little. Lastly, the third (PM) started extracting anatabine from tobacco, and only added it to a recently rebranded former ladies' cigarette called Marlboro, and within 20 years, it sold more than all other brands combined. They never disclosed this research to the public or the government, and even lobbied very hard to make sure that nicotine would be the only alkaloid tested for by the FTC. Over time, other tobacco companies discovered the secret of Marlboro's success, and the use of heavy dosages of anatabine became the standard.
Fast forward a few decades. A small pharmaceutical company called Star Scientific tested a new smoking cessation drug which turned out to be way more effective than even NRT and vaping combined, but the FDA deemed the drug untested and not legal for sale. That drug was CigRx, and its active ingredient? Anatabine.
The question:
10) If I handed you documentation for the above, and you already know that most ejuice contains no anatabine, and WTA and natural/rolling tobacco contain only trace amounts, would your views on smoking, vaping, and nicotine as a drug change? How?
More relevant to this forum, I am a former smoker (yet never an anti-smoker), hardcore vaper, cloud fetishist, nicotine advocate, and all-around corrupter of youth.
This survey is for my own use, and nothing taken from it will be used against you, this forum, or our beloved hobby. I am 100% pro-vaping, pro-smoking, pro-nicotine, and anti-government. Hell, I'm even pro-youth vaping.
I don't know your real names, addresses, emails, or anything, yet I give you my real name and intention. (Is that enough disclosure, gang?)
Now, on to the questions:
A) Since nearly all vapers are former or current smokers, it's safe to assume you smoked before you vaped. The first part concerns smoking.
1) How old were you when you started smoking?
2) Did you dream or fantasize about smoking before you started?
3) Did you start for social reasons (acceptance, fitting in, peer pressure, rebelion), or for other reasons (erotic, sensual, spiritual, curiosity)?
4) Do you have a smoking fetish (whether watching others or eroticising your own smoking)?
5) Was there anyone in particular who inspired you to smoke? If so whom?
B) The next section is about vaping.
6) This one is a question of style, not purpose (i.e. flavour chaser is not an option): Are you primarily a "cloud chaser" or a "tootle puffer"?
7) If vaping had been available when you started smoking, would you have chosen vaping over smoking?
8) Only if you have quit smoking: Did you switch for health reasons alone, or for any other (non health related) reason at all?
C) the last part is about nicotine itself
9) have you ever looked into the overwhelming evidence of nicotine's positive effects on the brain?
The last one is kind of long, but please humour me, I beg you.
The story:
In the 1940s, three major tobacco companies began researching the addictiveness of tobacco. After their research was complete, all 3 companies followed different strategies. One company (B&W) began extracting and using liquid nicotine in their cigarettes, and their sales increased a little. The second (RJR) began using higher nicotine yielding tobaccos, and their sales increased a little. Lastly, the third (PM) started extracting anatabine from tobacco, and only added it to a recently rebranded former ladies' cigarette called Marlboro, and within 20 years, it sold more than all other brands combined. They never disclosed this research to the public or the government, and even lobbied very hard to make sure that nicotine would be the only alkaloid tested for by the FTC. Over time, other tobacco companies discovered the secret of Marlboro's success, and the use of heavy dosages of anatabine became the standard.
Fast forward a few decades. A small pharmaceutical company called Star Scientific tested a new smoking cessation drug which turned out to be way more effective than even NRT and vaping combined, but the FDA deemed the drug untested and not legal for sale. That drug was CigRx, and its active ingredient? Anatabine.
The question:
10) If I handed you documentation for the above, and you already know that most ejuice contains no anatabine, and WTA and natural/rolling tobacco contain only trace amounts, would your views on smoking, vaping, and nicotine as a drug change? How?
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