Came back to post another rant...
2 days ago I ran into a person I I knew from a while ago. I broke ties with him several years ago because I found him not only to be untrustworthy person but also very dumb - so high a level of dumb that one has to walk away for fear of catching it.
Anyhow, he told me how he discovered vaping the other stuff back when his wife had cancer and got an Rx for it.
But recently he was getting his stuff not from the dispensing place (she passed away so his "source" dried up - that's a different story but you can probably figure out what that story is
).
I told him about about the whole EVALI thing and how it's not wise to get carts from the "black market".
He replied, "Oh, I don't get them from the "black market", I get them from some dude I know."
So since we were on the topic of vaping, I asked him, since he has tried (and prefers) vaping the other stuff, why had he not tried nicotine vaping yet (he was smoking a cigarette)?
He said, "I'm pretty sure that shit'll kill ya, man".
You read that right.
I was dumbfounded and infuriated, this coming from a smoker who buys carts "from some dude I know". I couldn't think of a thing to say.
He then broke the silence and said...wait for it...
[As he whipped out is pack of cigarettes for proof], "Besides I still smoke American Spirits, they really aren't bad for you."
Although I wasn't surprised at his answer, him being who is, but I replied, "Ooooooooooooooooohhhh, well that's good, I didn't realize the healthy cigarettes were still allowed on the market! Good thing you can still afford them, too."
This, of course, made him feel like he "won" and had ejuhmuhcated me and put me in my place, which helped in getting off the subject.
I ended the conversation as politely as possible soon after that. His cig smoke was almost annoying me more than he was so that gave me better incentive to get going as soon as possible.
I can assure you that will be the last time I say more than "hello" to this dude and I'll try to even avoid that if possible.