re: Tobacco Use Among Teens is Trending Up

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quit smoking before vaping was a thing, but I wonder if it's easier for kids to use and avoid getting caught?

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Absolutely. A Juul is the size of a thumb drive and you just press the button and inhale on it. It would be easy to step in the bathroom or out of sight and hit a few puffs and there is no smell that sticks to you

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juuls are harmless, deal with it you old man

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While e-cigarettes are less toxic than cigarettes, they still contain toxins and the addictive chemical nicotine, which is harmful to adolescent brain development. The adolescent brain is also more susceptible to addiction.

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And they’re starting to use THC vapes at school now and getting caught. They need to cut that shite out before it ruins it for the rest of us.

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They should let the high energy kids that distract others rip the THC ones though

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I may end up being the minority but I tried using a vape to quit smoking. It hurt my chest way worse than smoking did. I'm still not convinced that there isn't going to be a huge backlash eventually when they figure out that vaping poses some really serious health risk in its own right.

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I bought a Juul to keep from smoking socially on the weekends. Worked great, except I started smoking the Juul during the week. I have since stopped that too, but I didn't feel an affect on my lungs much at all. I run, and I felt no difference to my lower respiratory system from Juuling when on a run.

The only thing that it really affected for me was it dried out my sinuses.

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Absolutely. A Juul is the size of a thumb drive and you just press the button and inhale on it. It would be easy to step in the bathroom or out of sight and hit a few puffs and there is no smell that sticks to you

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I call b/s on this comment. There is no button on a Juul.

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When I was a chain smoker in college, if I didn't smoke, I was an angry, mean psychopath that would binge eat and bite my fingernails. I couldn't really think straight because I was just thinking about running to the gas station and grabbing a pack. fricking brutal. First drag of a cigarette would send wave of warm comfort across my body.

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Wtf is wrong with you

I was a pack to 2 pack a day smoker from a junior in high school through college.

I've not smoked for up to a year at a time. Usually keep a back of tobacco or a pack of cigarettes on hand.

Last year I bought 10 packs for the year. One is still sitting in my dash with 19 cigarettes in it.

Is it enjoyable? Sometimes. Is it all-consuming? Nah.

Well I quit in college as well.

But at one point I was 2 packs a day at least. Didn’t help I drank 6-7 nights a week.

Started at 14

Well at least they're doing something wrong. Hell most of them refuse to drive, have sex, do drugs, or go outside. I applaud this development. Vape it up, kids.

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While e-cigarettes are less toxic than cigarettes, they still contain toxins and the addictive chemical nicotine, which is harmful to adolescent brain development. The adolescent brain is also more susceptible to addiction.

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Except many use vape juice that has zero nicotine in it. I know a lot of folks that work in local bars, turned to vaping to get around cigarettes, now just vape without any nicotine because the habit is more of an oral fixation than anything else. Know others that have never smoked cigarettes that are big into vaping because of hobbyist aspects, they know more about Ohm's Law and DC circuit design than they'd learn in formal electrical engineering classes.