The continual praise of JUUL is disgusting. I can’t believe people buy the PR spin that it makes us healthier because “it’s not cigarettes.” A tiny % switch from cigarettes to something (maybe) marginally less harmful in exchange for re-addicting large swaths of the population.
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
The health benefits from the switch are substantial — for a long time vaping was a solid win on net. But even assuming relatively low medical harm, nicotine addiction is a real beast. IMO, there's a severe cost to the psyche to be owned by a drug in that way, especially so young
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Replying to @webdevMason @AustenAllred
Do you think if peeps got addicted to nicorette there would be the same level of outrage about the shift in nicotine delivery mode?
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Replying to @gabebassin @AustenAllred
I was addicted to nicotine gum until about 4 months ago. It's not at all glamorous to have a wad of gum in your mouth all the time, so it's no surprise that it wouldn't really catch on with teens. But yeah, if there were a teen trend there I think it'd be concerning
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Good! Very minor intermittent cravings. I keep coming across random sheets of the gum I'd stashed everywhere, but they go straight into the trash
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