I started writing the following as a comment in a thread about choosing a 2 battery mod, but I think it fits better as a stand alone post.
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In my opinion, vaping has completely leaped smoking as far as enjoyment goes. When I vape, I am not in any way trying to replicate the cigarette smoking experience; I am maximizing the vaping experience. I don't consider myself a smoker who has quit, but rather a smoker who found a WAY more satisfying nicotine delivery system. I suspect that given the tremendous variety available in the vaping world, there exists a vape setup for most every smoker that would satisfy them as much or more than traditional cigarettes do.
I take issue with vaping being seen merely as a "means to quit cigarettes". I want vape technology to continue to improve and become so vastly superior to smoking that new non-smokers will be more inclined to pick up a vape than a cigarette. I want vaping to become as socially acceptable as cigarette smoking once was. I want us to ditch the term "electronic cigarette", because it suggests that Vapes are a subset of cigarettes, rather than an entirely different animal.
The fixation with vaping as a means to quit smoking creates a tendency to ignore an important category of non-vaper: the young person who has never smoked and has never vaped. Every cigarette smoker was once a non-smoker; something about cigarettes must have attracted former non smokers to cigarettes, otherwise they never would have started smoking in the first place. A lot of people have addictive tendencies, enjoy acting out on those tendencies, and are going to act out on those tendencies in one way or another. As far as manners in which addictive tendencies can be acted upon, vaping is about as benign as it gets.
My hope is that vape tech will continue to improve, and eventually would-be smokers will overwhelmingly reach for a vape instead of a cigarette.
I don't want a "Smoke Free America". That would be super lame. I want a happier and healthier America. And the gradual phasing out of cigarettes and phasing in of vapes would work towards achieving that end.
We vapers stand at the precipice of a consumer-driven public health initiative that very well may prove the most successful public health initiative since the advent of the antibiotic. Vaping has the potential to virtually eliminate the public health hazards associated with smoking. We need to represent vaping not only as a means of quitting cigarettes, but also as the right choice for non-smoker-future-would-be-smokers, a group including our children and those who have not yet been born.
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In my opinion, vaping has completely leaped smoking as far as enjoyment goes. When I vape, I am not in any way trying to replicate the cigarette smoking experience; I am maximizing the vaping experience. I don't consider myself a smoker who has quit, but rather a smoker who found a WAY more satisfying nicotine delivery system. I suspect that given the tremendous variety available in the vaping world, there exists a vape setup for most every smoker that would satisfy them as much or more than traditional cigarettes do.
I take issue with vaping being seen merely as a "means to quit cigarettes". I want vape technology to continue to improve and become so vastly superior to smoking that new non-smokers will be more inclined to pick up a vape than a cigarette. I want vaping to become as socially acceptable as cigarette smoking once was. I want us to ditch the term "electronic cigarette", because it suggests that Vapes are a subset of cigarettes, rather than an entirely different animal.
The fixation with vaping as a means to quit smoking creates a tendency to ignore an important category of non-vaper: the young person who has never smoked and has never vaped. Every cigarette smoker was once a non-smoker; something about cigarettes must have attracted former non smokers to cigarettes, otherwise they never would have started smoking in the first place. A lot of people have addictive tendencies, enjoy acting out on those tendencies, and are going to act out on those tendencies in one way or another. As far as manners in which addictive tendencies can be acted upon, vaping is about as benign as it gets.
My hope is that vape tech will continue to improve, and eventually would-be smokers will overwhelmingly reach for a vape instead of a cigarette.
I don't want a "Smoke Free America". That would be super lame. I want a happier and healthier America. And the gradual phasing out of cigarettes and phasing in of vapes would work towards achieving that end.
We vapers stand at the precipice of a consumer-driven public health initiative that very well may prove the most successful public health initiative since the advent of the antibiotic. Vaping has the potential to virtually eliminate the public health hazards associated with smoking. We need to represent vaping not only as a means of quitting cigarettes, but also as the right choice for non-smoker-future-would-be-smokers, a group including our children and those who have not yet been born.
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