Kids probably vape for the same reasons they did in your / my day, it's what others are doing, 'mild rebellious acting grown up, peer group and peer pressure and a mildly addictive stimulant...
Or rather an addictive mild stimulant. Many studies have found nicotine as addictive as heroine FWIW.
A lot of our age did because we thought it looked cool in the movies. I had my first cig aged 11 when someone gave me one to try. A day I wish I could go back to and do things differently.The flicking open of a zippo or thumbing a Dunhill, the string of a match and cupping it as it lit up the actor’s face. All the cool looking actors smoked. I gave up in January 2002 after smoking 50-60 a day. Writing this almost makes me want to find my Dunhill lighter and go buy some cigs. Vaping looks anything but cool. I can understand people using vapes to get off cigarettes but to start using them for any other reason seems ridiculous.
My doctor years ago said in many ways it was harder to give up smoking than heroin. You just couldn’t decide to have some heroin and easily get some (though that has altered somewhat during the intervening years) but if you were trying to give up cigarettes they were available everywhere.
I guess in 50 years time old people will be saying similar things but about vapes, if only I hadn't been tempted by the strawberry flavour and pretty packaging my body wouldn't be falling to bits due to the chemicals I've inhaled.
Yes. A way of hooking them. If you want to give up smoking all you need is one with nicotine in to reduce the craving. Nobody gets hooked on strawberry flavoured cigarettes.
I was never on Facebook but wanted to access something somebody had told me about. So I registered with a totally made up identity. A day later I had 68 “friends”.
Vaping and bottled water must be the two most successful marketing of things not needed there's ever been.
People can't just become your friends on Facebook, you need to accept their friend request or request that they be your friend.
Well, they appeared then. Linked to the false info I had given. Funny enough one was a woman my wife worked with in Hull in the 1970s now living in Australia.
I think the idea is to make it harder for youngsters to buy cigs so that they don’t get addicted early before they realise what they’re doing to themselves. By the time they’re older they’ll understand how bad they are and won’t want them. I would feel for a shopkeeper trying to tell an unruly 17 yo he can’t buy cigs…
In a few decades it will be harder telling an irate 56 year old after being asked for ID that he cannot buy cigarettes whilst the 57 year old in the queue can.
That doesn't make logical sense. Why would the 56 year old start trying to buy cigarettes in a shop, if they haven't been allowed for the past forty years.
What about when a 59 year old tries to buy tobacco and only 60 year olds and older are allowed to buy tobacco? How will a shopkeeper tell? What has that got to do with youngsters?
Are you saying no one will get cigarettes from somewhere when this comes in. Now that makes no sense. And what about all the migrants who arrive here from other countries that allow smoking in a few years time, do we tell them that they cannot smoke now they are here? Can see a lot of lawyers rubbing their hands at the thought of that. Unless every country follows our lead in this like they will regarding net zero as some people think they will. Fat chance of that.
